Barca Studios is proud to offer his latest fictional outing, The Awakening, a moving account of human emotions and relationships, in which Barca football and fans serve to unite the characters. The film brings the return in February 2015, because it shows how willing other people are to go through the smartness of their enjoyed, all in the context of the triple season of the club’s time.
The awakening opens on Sunday, August 2 at 22:00 CEST on the streaming of Barca TV, and is in Catalan with subtitles in Spanish and English.
The film tells the story of a 21-year-old woman, Martina, who lives with her grandfather Pau, take care of each other and also percentage her time at FC Barcelona. But on the afternoon of February 21, just after the Barca-Málaga match, everything changed when Pau suffered a stroke and went into a coma, which he released months later after suffering a recent partial loss due to reminiscences. Inspired by the film Farewell, Lenin!, Martina makes the decision to fill Pau’s days with emotions and satisfied memories. And what better way to do it than to make him enjoy all the glorious sporting triumphs that happened to him while in a coma and that were a new access to the hitale azulgrana with some other hat-trick. Martina has the help of her friends, acquaintances and co-workers from Barca TV, especially from Quim, an eccentric musician who lives in the same building.
These early occasions test the other characters, and the plot advances by linking other moments in their lives to the values of the sport, such as effort and determination in the face of adversity, while showing how difficult conditions tend to bring the most productive out of people. It is a universal product for all audiences, but it also reflects the traditions related to Barca and the families for which the club is a source of unity and a meeting point among other generations.
With The Awakening, Barca Studios has made more progress in creating original entertainment products ranging from documentaries to fiction and cartoons. All of this is part of the plan to bring the club and its values closer to the fans, providing an exclusive at the club, while connecting with new audiences around the world.
Once again, the club’s audiovisual factory has partnered with the most productive members. This production was supported by Brutal Media, which was consolidated in the sector through films such as Te quiero, Imbecil and the award-winning miniseries Tornarem, in addition to the participation of Televisión de Catalunya. The hallmark of such an ambitious commission is how it combines a fictional story with photographs of genuine games and interviews with the heroes of the 2014/15 season, directly directed through Kiko Ruiz Claverol, the kind of highly successful television series like Les de l’hoquei. and No Identity, and screenwriter David Castillo, who has worked on productions such as Ventdelpl’ and Dagoll Dagom’s La memeria dels Cargols.
The original concept and situation of The Awakening developed before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the entire series occurred in 4 weeks, after the rest of the blocking measures. The production program has strictly complied with all protection regulations issued by fitness authorities.
“We are proud to be able to offer a film like The Awakening, a production for all audiences that describes emotions and how other people react to certain situations. It is also a story that allows us to unite moments of our lives. to the values of sport.
With the 2015 hits as a backdrop, we are confident that many Culers will identify with the characters, as the film shows traditions as closely related to the club as the way it brings other generations of the club together. the same family. But we are also convinced that, as a film, it achieves much more than that, presenting a universal situation with which all audiences can connect, even those who are not football fans.
We will have to tighten that with El Despertar, Barca Studios continues to consolidate its catalog of contents, reinforcing the club’s commitment to the creation of high quality audiovisual products as a component of its new virtual strategy “.