Eivisual production company has completed the documentary video 'Saints and Assassins', on the figure of Merche Chapí. The Valencian director based in Ibiza who was the soul of the Amateur Theater Group (GAT) for more than 40 years and also worked as an acting instructor.

The job, from 35 minutos consists of an interview conducted by the cultural manager Carles Fabregat, where Chapí responds honestly and brilliantly to the review of 40 years of activity in the world of theater.

“…I fell in love with Ibiza since I arrived in the year 1966 and it's the city I've been living and working in ever since.”.

Chapí began his theatrical career in 1961, to the 22 years, as an actress of the TEU of Valencia under the orders of director Antonio Díaz Zamora, whom she recognizes as her teacher.

Merche Chapí left TEU in 1968 and moved to Ibiza. There he founded his first theater classroom at the Blat school in Ibiza in 1970. In 1975 created the Amateur Theater Group (GAT) and directed it until its dissolution in 2020 after having released some 180 montages.

Has received different awards:

• Important Award from the Diario de Ibiza (1996).
• Ramon Llull Prize of Government of the Balearic Islands (2018).
• Award 8 March to progressive women of Ibiza (2019).
• Award for entire career from the Consell d'Eivissa (2021).
• Gold Medal from the city of Ibiza (2022).

'Saints and murderers’ reviews the career of this important figure in a work of 35 minutes performed by Ramon Mayol. He has directed numerous video documentaries: ‘The Ca eivissen’s’., "The salt and time tower", 'Live the bay!, or the 'Aigua Viva!, about the wells and fountains of Santa Eulària des Riu, I enter others. He is also the author of numerous short films: 'Such', 'Your boss eats my boyfriends', ‘ReMI’, ‘The Lengend’… or the short microphone ‘Selficrosis‘.

From the recording, Manolo Matoses has been in charge of the editing and music..

The documentary has the collaboration of the Ibiza City Council and the Consell d'Eivissa.

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