Magaluf Ghost Town (2021)
At the height of the summer tourist season, the Spanish beach town Magaluf turns into a hellscape of the low-cost travel industry. For eight weeks every year, over one million mostly British vacationers ride an alcohol-soaked tide of public urination, fisticuffs and ambulance sirens for recreation. Instead of assembling a clip-reel of "balconing," when drunk idiots jump into hotel pools from their balconies, filmmaker Miguel Ángel Blanca crafts a far deeper and atmospheric look at a place where visitors and locals alike are driven by pleasure. Long-time resident Maria has little time left, so she takes in a seasonal lodger who listens to her relive her glory days. An enterprising real estate agent peddles an extravagant development, while a young gay man drifts without any plans beyond robbing a tourist for kicks. Part ghost story, part foreboding parable, this is a stylish and vivid impression of people and a place dreaming of escape. Myrocia Watamaniuk (Hot Docs)
Director: Miguel Ángel Blanca
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Javier Gil as |
| Production | Bernat Manzano | Producer |
| Production | Valérie Montmartin | Producer |
| Production | Miguel Eek | Producer |
| Directing | Miguel Ángel Blanca | Director |
| Writing | Miguel Ángel Blanca | Writer |
| Camera | Raúl Cuevas | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Miguel Ángel Blanca | Editor |
| Editing | Javier Gil | Editor |
| Production | Montse Pujol Solà | Production Coordinator |
| Sound | Sara Fontán | Music |
| Sound | Edu Pou | Music |
| Sound | Cosmic d'Alessandro | Sound |
| Sound | Iban R. Gabarró | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Ariadna Ribas | Editor |
