Miguel Morales' documentary "Taro. The Echo of Manrique" has received six Goya nominations. Thus, it is nominated in the category of best film, best new direction, best original screenplay, best sound, best editing and best documentary film, although it will still have to pass a second screening.
The Academy will announce the four finalist films for these Goya awards on January 10. And, for the moment, it is a pre-selection of about 100 films, in which "Taro. The Echo of Tahíche", with six nominations, has slipped in.
It was on September 25 when this documentary premiered at the César Manrique Foundation, which had to enable two rooms, as hundreds of people attended. The event also coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Lanzarote artist.
At that presentation, the director of the documentary pointed out that he hopes that through it "future generations can have that civic awareness that is the great work of César Manrique." Thus, he assured that César "is a mirror and a loudspeaker, a mirror because he is an example to look at and a loudspeaker because he never kept quiet".
The film illustrates the career of César Manrique through an intense search for archive images of the artist and testimonies from his closest collaborators, as well as those responsible for the FCM and the naturalist Joaquín Araujo. It also moves to Germany where testimonies are collected from a journalist and the architect Frei Otto, who highlights Manrique's influence on contemporary architecture.
The film approaches César Manrique emphasizing his environmental and territorial activism, his fight against speculation and his passion for the nature of Lanzarote.
