We're not leaving because of our ``spirit of adventure``
We're leaving because they're kicking us out
I’d been living overseas since 2008, seeing how my friends from college back in Spain were doing one of three things after graduating: studying a Master’s Degree, being jobless, or emigrating. It got to the point in 2011, when I was in Los Angeles doing a Master’s in Film and Television Producing, that practically every day someone on Facebook was leaving Spain. It all came to a head on September 25, 2012 with the Rodea el Congreso (Surround Congress) protests and the brutal beatings that the riot police were giving the protestors. That’s when I realized that they were kicking us out of the country, with sound beatings if they had to. I think that the rage I felt when I saw those images is what gave me the impulse to tell the story of my generation.
Ruben Hornillo
Interview in Espacio Liquido
So I decided to do this...
So how many people have left Spain since the start of the economic crisis?
Enough to justify telling this story
According to the INE 262,081 Spaniards have emigrated during the crisis. These figures under-represent the reality, according to the very same INE.
For her part, the Population Movements researcher for the CSIC, Amparo González, calculates that 700,000 people have left Spain.
An analysis in El Confidencial concludes that nearly 2,000,000 have abandoned Spain in the last four years due to the economic crisis.
And the project takes off
With teamwork from all over the world
We created a Social Media community
We got over 5,000 loyal followers on our various social media channels
We ran a PR and Media campaign for the project
Our story appeared in important media outlets such as El Confidencial or el Objetivo de Ana Pastor in la Sexta television
We launched our crowdfunding campaign
We got the endorsement of well-known actor Emily Mortimer and raised enough funds to start shooting
And we started shooting
With the funds we managed to raise we started shooting in Spain
Alicante
Barcelona
Madrid
