Subsidizing audiovisual production in the Canary Islands, in the form of feature films, shorts and documentaries, supporting Canarian work at festivals and exhibitions, and promoting the development of events related to the audiovisual world in the islands are the main lines of action of Canary Islands Film.
The brand, which is coordinated by the Canarian Institute for Cultural Development, includes all the island councils and their respective film commissions, as well as Proexca, the Canary Islands Special Zone and other relevant agents in the audiovisual sector in the Islands, ends the year 2022 with increasing activity.
In the Lanzarote area, the support for the Lanzarote Film Festival stands out, within the sponsorship of large-format events, and the Lanzarote International Festival, in the section of small-format events.
List of activities carried out during the year
In 2022, Canary Islands Film has supported the creation of 28 audiovisual projects, with an investment of 1.8 million euros. Eight of the subsidized projects are directed or co-directed by Canarians, three of them by women alone, in addition to another co-directed by a woman, and five are directorial debuts.
Likewise, in this line, a parallel amount of 3,900 euros has been allocated to two Canarian creations, with the aim of increasing the dissemination of local cinema, and 16 companies or professionals have benefited this year from the aid to attend 6 markets: Iberseries & Platino Industria, MIFA, MIPCOM, Marché du Film (Cannes), European Film Market of Berlin and Kidscreen (Miami).
On the other hand, the Canarian Government has also collaborated with the realization of festivals, exhibitions, markets, congresses and forums to promote the audiovisual industry, "placing greater emphasis on those that represent a significant and innovative contribution to the cultural offer of the islands", as reported in a statement.
Among the large-format events, it has invested in six: the twelfth Lanzarote Film Festival, Festivalito La Palma; the sixth edition of the Isla Calavera Festival; the fifth Quirino Awards for Ibero-American Animation, FICMEC, and the seventeenth Villa de La Orotava Short Film Festival. These projects have obtained an amount of between 30,340 and 50,000 euros.
For its part, the entity has also participated in 17 small-format initiatives, with amounts between 2,987.15 and 14,999 euros per project, among which the CIIF Market, the Film Accelerators (from the Atlantic and the Canary Islands) or the twenty-second Lanzarote International Festival stand out.
In the same way, Canary Islands Film has attended this 2022 to fifteen audiovisual markets (animation, series, film, short films and documentary), to carry out information and assistance work to producers and locators with the ultimate goal of attracting productions to the islands and promote their industry and talent.
