Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
The Canary Islands’ film and TV industry is pushing to open a second front in terms of international production.
Offering a hefty 38% tax break for film and TV shoots, the boom in big international shoots continues. Most recent examples: Brad Pitt’s “Allied” and Universal Pictures’ Jason Bourne.
However, only a minority part of film and TV productions on the Islands are developed by the local industry.
“Our aim is for the local industry to joins projects as co-producers and also promote other projects originated in the Islands,” said Luis Renart, managing director at Canary Island Connection.
After five years of deep economic crisis, Canary Islands’ authorities are mulling the relaunch of film and TV subsidies. Internationalisation is generating early green shoot growth Canaries-developed projects include:
*Theo Court’s historical drama White on White, a co-production between Tenerife-based El Viaje Films with Chile’s Don Quijote, supported by Spain’s ICAA Film Institute, Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and regional pubcaster TV Canaria. it toplines Alfredo Castro (The Club) and Pilar Lopez de Ayala (Night Has Settled).
*A post-modern western, Milk Teeth, by David Pantaleon, re-teams Tenerife’s Volcano Films with France’s Noodles, co-producers of Evolution.