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Berlin Title ‘The Undergrowth’ Gets Trailer as Director Macu Machín Defends Canary Islands as More Than a ‘Backdrop’: ‘There Is a Whole World in the Islands’ (EXCLUSIVE)
‘The Undergrowth’ adds to a local production output in the Canary Islands, vital as it becomes one of Europe’s got-to big international shoot locales.
Three women live a quiet life amongst the luscious trees of the Canary Islands in the first trailer for Macu Machín’s Berlinale Forum entry “The Undergrowth.” Croatia’s Splitscreen is handling sales on the title. Machín’s feature debut is a personal affair, with the filmmaker chronicling the routine of her mother and two aunts as they finally try to settle the distribution of their family inheritance after years of debate. When commenting on getting so personal for her first feature documentary, the director says it was “difficult” at times, not because of the intimate nature of the story, but because she “wanted the film to be respectful, to come from a place of love and without passing judgement on the people involved.”
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