Children of the sun
Genre: Biopic
Running time: 90’
Format: TV Movie
Year: 2016
Language: Galician
Country: Spain
Coproduction: Galicia – Cataluña
Producer companies: Portocabo / Diagonal TV
Broadcast: TVG, TV3
Direction: Ramón Costafreda and Kiko Ruiz
Executive production: Alfonso Blanco and Albert Sagalés
Script: Ramón Costafreda, Pepe Coira, Alfred Pérez-Fargas, Roger Danès and Daniel Domínguez
Music: Xavi Font
Cast: Pablo Derquí, Xosé Barato, Vicky Luengo, Tamar Novas, Victor Duplá, Xúlio Abonjo, Roser Tapias, Celso Bugallo, Clara Segura, Xabier Deive
Production management: Ana Míguez and Albert Morera
DOP: Xavier Gil
Art direction: Antonio Pereira
Costume design: Saturna
Makeup and hairdresser: Chicha Blanco and Vicen Beti
Sound: Juan González
Editing: Frank Gutiérrez
Synopsis
Fernando Calvet was a brilliant Catalan scientist who became the first Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela at the age of 23. In 1939, he co-founded the pharmaceutical company Zeltia and became the head of its research team. He embarked on this business venture alongside his friend Ramón Obella, a doctor and entrepreneur from Compostela with a great imagination and a savvy business mind, who had founded the Children of the Sun naturist group with him years earlier. They were also joined by the brothers José and Antonio Fernández López, the main investors behind the project. Their objective was to use flora and organic waste from the local area to produce pharmaceuticals for human, veterinary and agricultural consumption.
In times of war, their laboratories in O Porriño became the epicentre of modern science, laying the foundations of a business group that remains a benchmark to this day.
Awards and nominations
Nominated for 7 Mestre Mateo Award
Official Section Zoom Festival 2017