PLACE : THESSALONIKI OLYMPION CINEMAS
EVENT : 10th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL (7 - 16 MARCH 2008) DOCUMENTARY : CAMPILLO SI QUIERO / CAMPILLO YES I DO DIRECTOR : ANDRES RUBIO MAYOR OF CAMPILLO: FRANCISCO MAROTO GARCIA
CAMPILLO DE RANAS IS A BEAUTIFUL, SMALL VILLAGE WITH 200 RESIDENTS IN GUADALAJARA 125KM NORTHERN MADRID.
IN 2005 PRIME MINISTER JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO RECOGNIZED LEGALY, BY VOTING A LAW, MARRIAGE BETEWEEN SAME SEX PEOPLE.
BUT IN GUADALAJARA PERFECTURE NOBODY ACCEPTED TO APPLY THE LAW.
NOBODY EXCEPT ONE : THE MAYOR OF CAMPILLO DE RANAS.

SINCE THAN MORE THAN 60 MARRIAGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THIS SMALL VILLAGE. A PLACE THAT WAS DYING WAS REBIRTH BECAUSE FRANCISCO MAROTO GARCIA SAID SI, QUIERO / YES, I DO.
THIS BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARY FROM DIRECTOR ANDRES RUBIO WAS PROJECTED AT 10th DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL IN THESSALONIKI-GREECE AND IT WILL BE PROJECTED AGAIN AT THE 10th GAY MOVIE PANORAMA (FIRST WEEK OF MAY 2008).

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