Canary Islands’ Documentary Voices Look Outward as Sector Gains Range

Canary Islands’ Documentary Voices Look Outward as Sector Gains Range

As the Canary Islands’ audiovisual sector pushes more assertively onto the international doc scene, a cluster of producers, directors and creative executives is helping to define what production there can now mean: locally grounded, varied, outward-facing and very exportable. Variety profiles some of the Canary Islands’ most important figures: David Baute Few filmmakers working in … Read more

From Barça to Atlantic History, Canary Islands Producers Eye the World

From Barça to Atlantic History, Canary Islands Producers Eye the World

If the Canary Islands’ audiovisual sector is increasingly pitching itself as both rooted and exportable, a handful of new and recent titles suggest why. Across cultural history, elite sport, climate emergency and intimate observational portraiture, local companies are shaping projects that start from Canarian experience and reach out from there. At the heritage end stands … Read more