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Canary Islands Cinema Lifts Off, Primed by Local Talent, Relocation, Governmental Backing
Canary Islands films are suddenly exploding onto the festival scene. What’s happened and how Canary Islands Cinema plans to grow.
Two Canary Islands projects were pitched at the Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (MAFF): Lucía Pérez’s Locarno hit “Ever & the Sharks” and Víctor Moreno’s anticipated fiction feature debut “The Outside.” “One thing that I believe also influences many of our generation of filmmakers including Macu Machín, Victor Moreno, David Pantaleón, Nayra Sanz, Octavio Guerra, Marina Alberti, and so on is the idea that a tax incentive exists here,” El Viaje Films co-founder José Ayalón has told Variety. Having seen Spain’s federal government launch and increase big shoot incentives, set because of ZEC at about 80% higher in the Canary Islands, a service industry has rapidly grown in the Archipelago, now reaching full maturity.
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