• TITLE THE MAN FROM THE WEST
• LOGLINE After realizing that innovative virtual reality therapies aren't helping his father's Alzheimer's, JD turns to the places from his past where he once lived and to his old passion for Western movies.
• FORMATO Short film
• GENRE Documentary
• SYNOPSIS JD Alcázar has his father Andrés, who has limited mobility, undergo innovative virtual reality therapies that show him images related to his past in an effort to slow the progression of his Alzheimer’s. But the advanced stage of his disease, combined with Andrés’s impatient nature, prevents the therapies from being effective. In his eagerness to help his father recover his memory, he decides to physically take him to those places from the past. The positive results and the sense of reconnection Andrés experiences while listening to music from his beloved Western movies lead his son to decide to take him to the cinematic heart of the Wild West.
• PRODUCTION COMPANIES 601 Producciones Audiovisuales
• TRACK RECORD IN LABORATORIES OR MENTORING 601 is a production company with over 20 years of experience producing content for organizations, television, visitor centers, and museums. In the field of documentary filmmaking, it has produced works on a wide range of topics, such as *AINARAK*, about female emigration from Navarre and Aragon to the French Basque Country between 1880 and 1936, ANWAR, which combines mountaineering, solidarity, and renewable energy through the lens of mountaineer Alex Txikon; AWARDS BEYOND THE LIMITS OF HAIRDRESSING, about cutting-edge hairdressing worldwide; SAL&DEAN, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF KEROUAC, a road documentary that portrays American society; KANTAURI, a feature-length documentary on life along the Cantabrian coast in a poetic tone, LILIT, SEX WELL UNDERSTOOD, about education and female sexuality, and ATLAS OCULTO, a co-production with France on territories flooded by the construction of reservoirs. He has also produced the documentary short films CEDITAS, about loneliness among the elderly; MIGRANTES, a documentary reflection on human and animal migration; and EL QUE NO VE, about social exclusion told from a first-person perspective. Other projects currently in production include LORALDIA, a co-production with Álava about the music scene in Iruña, CAÍDOS DEL ZIELO, a co-production with Aragón about theater as a healing tool for people at risk of social exclusion; and the short films ENCUENTROS CON XABIER, about the artist Xabier Morrás and his participation in the 1972 Pamplona Encounters, and EL HOMBRE DEL OESTE, which explores the use of new technologies in therapies for Alzheimer’s patients. Currently in development are the projects TOCARÉ HASTA QUE MIS DEDOS SANGREN, a biography of the artist Aurora Beltrán, a pioneering frontwoman in Spanish rock, and A TALE OF SPERM WHALE, about cetacean conservation in the Azores.
• PRODUCTION PHASE Distribution
• CONTACT Juan San Martin juan@601.es / Rosa García rosa@601.es
• FECHA DE ESTRENO 2026