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‘La Lucha,’ Set in the World of Wrestling, Rolls in the Canary Islands as Homegrown Cinema Blooms (EXCLUSIVE)

After isolated productions, a first wave of Canary Island productions is hitting festivals, markets and cinemas.

*A third Spanish Screenings title, animated feature “Black Butterflies,” from David Baute at Santa Cruz de Tenerife-based Tinglado Film (“Climate Exodus”), depicts three women from very different parts of the world who all lose everything from global warming, emigrating to survive. *Pablo Larráin go-to actor Alfredo Castro will head the choral cast of “Three Dark Nights”(“Tres noches negras”), the third feature from Spanish-Chilean Theo Court, set up at El Viaje Films, and a standout at September’s San Sebastián Co-Production Forum and Ventana Sur’s Proyecta project competition. “The most important thing that has happened in filmmaking in the Canary Islands maybe is that people who had the need to make films, to seek a somewhat genuine vision and reflect on ourselves, have come together: David Pantaleón, Macu Machín, Víctor Moreno, Nayra Sanz, Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón, Silvia Navarro, Octavio Guerra, and many others,” said Ayalón.

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