Today Matchbox Films is delighted to announce that it will release critically acclaimed festival hit The Shepherd (El Pastor) in UK cinemas 2nd June. Written, Directed and Produced by Jonathan Cenzual Burley (The Soul of Flies, The Year and the Vineyard) The Shepherd won Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor (Miguel Martín) at Raindance Film Festival 2016, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film at the Latinita Festival de Cine Espanol y Latinoamericano in February 2017 and has been officially selected for many film festivals worldwide.
Starring Miguel Martín (as Anselmo), Maribel Iglesias and Alfonso Mendiguchía, The Shepherd follows how a lonely shepherd's home and way of life is threatened when building promoters become interested in his land.
