The territory of Lanzarote has been distinguished at the national level with the first ReCrea Rural 2025 award, granted by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), during the National Congress of Territorial Innovation Centers, held in Ponferrada.
The recognition was given within the framework of the Re-Crea Rural 2025 contest, promoted by the Network of Territorial Innovation Centers (RedCIT), which received more than 100 audiovisual proposals from all over the country. The winning piece, entitled "The essence that defines us", was selected for its sensitivity, authenticity and ability to transmit the connection between the agricultural community and highlight the essence of Lanzarote.
The Congress was attended by prominent authorities, such as the Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen Muñoz, and the Secretary General for the Demographic Challenge, Paco Boya, who was in charge of presenting the award to the team promoting the documentary.
An audiovisual tribute to the agricultural soul of Lanzarote
The award-winning piece is part of the RegenERA Lanzarote process, a territorial regeneration movement with national and international impact.
The statement sent to the media highlights the work of Paco Fabelo, agriculture technician of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, who facilitated access to the territory and forged the necessary human alliances, the production director, Nadia Iglesias, who contributed an emotional, respectful and carefully constructed narrative, and, David Hernández, Director and producer of Studio Era, a local documentarian, who captured with visual sensitivity the invisible and the everyday, giving life to the memory of the landscape.
"This recognition is also for the farmers who generously opened their homes, their history and their land to us. It is a tribute to their daily lives, to the essence that still survives in Lanzarote and that we must ensure endures in the future," shared Olatz Huerta, representative of the local team that collected the award from Paco Boya.
This award not only recognizes the narrative value of the piece, but the very essence of the Lanzarote territory: its sustainable ways of life, its agricultural culture and its commitment to the future.
"The beauty of Lanzarote is not only in its landscape, but in the way its people relate to it. This award celebrates precisely that," say the project team.
A process driven from Lanzarote with international projection
RegenERA Lanzarote has mobilized more than a thousand people from 40 countries and has become a reference in rural innovation, climate action and cultural regeneration. The process has been accompanied by the organization BeForGet, specialized in connecting talent with purpose to transform communities and territories from the essence.
"This award is a celebration of the soul of Lanzarote, and an impulse to continue creating from what we are. Not only for what is seen, but for everything that is sustained from within," says Ramón Romero CEO of BeForGet
The RegenERA Local movement, promoted by various organizations including Impact Hub, BeForGet or The Social Circle, has mobilized more than 2,000 people from 41 countries and is projected as a national and international network of rural innovation, cultural regeneration and systemic transformation, driven by and for local communities.