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THY KINGDOM COME IS THE STORY OF SIMÓN GONZÁLEZ, THIRTEEN TIMES WOLD CHAMPION SPANISH KICKBOXER WHO IS NOW FACING HIS 14TH MATCH: TO WALK AGAIN

Director: Horacio Alcalá
Producers: Raquel Menor
Co Producer: The Aurora Project, Camara Oscura, Ernesto Barraza
Associated Producers: Aitor Echeverría, Jimena Villaroel
Country of Origin: Spain
Length: 90 min. and 52 min TV version
Gender: Documentary
Status: Distribution
Languages: Spanish, English, Galician, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian
Locations: Vigo, Madrid. Spain / Coimbra, Lisbon. Portugal /Budapest.

Hungary/ Ciudad de Mexico / Huatulco, Mexico Format: 4K
Music: Original Score
 

Name, Title

Simón González (Ourense, Spain, 1964) is the greatest athlete Spain has given, a living leyend of international kickboxing. His legacy: thirteen kickboxing world championships and a historical record that hasn’t changed his disciplined and hardworking personality. A man from humble origins who found in this elite sport his inspiration.

Kickboxing would him in return as much as he offered, a whole life. His discipline, persistence, education and respect are what have made him the best. Values that have remained despite the tremendous hits that he has suffered in his life, hit that not even this champion has been able to dodge. He lost his father, his brother and his best friend to this career.

After being the King of the World, Simón suffers a home accident that puts him in
a wheelchair until today. Far from hanging on to pain, Simón turned to the others finding the strength that he uses to walk again. He recently goy admitted to a treatment with mother cells that promises to regenerate his spinal cord.

Simon’s dream is to walk again and hasn’t surrendered since then, He has held on to the 3% chances of coming back to the ring as a reason to live and fight. In 2018 he has been acknowledged with the Honour to Sports by the Kingdom of Spain. This is the story od Simón, it doesn’t matter if he depends on a Wheelchair, he is still an above all a fighter facing his 14th match: to walk again.

The documentary is narrated in 7 chapters that define Simón’s life: Prelude, The lion doesn’t walk alone, Soldier without homeland, The wizard and the warrior, The promised land, My kingdom for a horse, Encore.

Direcotor Bio​

Horacio Alcalá studied filmmaking in Venice and Berlin. While working in French TV, he joined the Cirque du Soleil in Europe where he discovered the ficus world. Since 2006, Alclá has lived in Madrid where he runs the production company Cámara Boreal. His main interests are music and the performing arts. Grazing the Sky

participated in the Encuentro Iberoamericano de Coproducción Cinematográfica, in FICG26.

MY KINGDOM COME
Horacio Alcala

MY KINGDOM COME

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