Secuoya Studios and Tiki Group will produce the first fiction series shot on Easter Island

‘The island’ will be a thriller of eight episodes of fifty minutes each, which will show one of the most extraordinary places in the world.

Secuoya Studios, the Film and Entertainment Production Division of the Secuoya Group will produce in collaboration with Tiki group (Chile-Mexico) the first fiction series shot in the Easter Island, one of the most extraordinary places in the world.

Traditionally known by the name of Rapa Nui, it is the most remote inhabited island in the world, located 3,700 kilometers from the Chilean coasts and designated World Heritage for house the monumental MOAI (sculptures with human faces) and keep the primitive Polynesian culture alive.

This will be the scenario of The island, a thriller of eight episodes of fifty minutes each, who will show this spectacular location to the whole world. Producers David Martínez (Secuoya Studios) and Miguel Asensio (Tiki Group) have reached an agreement to produce this series that will focus on the disappearance of a Spanish tourist and the subsequent efforts of her best friend and a Rapanui plundering in finding her in this magical and mysterious place.

The series will have a cast composed of international actors (Spanish and Latin American) and will be directed by Guillermo Amoedo. This is one of the new voices of Latin America's genre cinema whose debut in 2014 (The Stranger) won the award for the best Ibero -American film in Sitges and was acquired by IFC for the United States.

The island It is also written by an exception team: the recently nominated for Goya, Choose Montero (Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles, Gran Hotel, Iron and Gran Reserva) and the blockboller Chilean black novel director and writer, Boris Quercia (Author of the trilogy starring Detective Santiago Quiñones and who won the Grand Prix of Litterure Police and the feature film Sex with love).

The entire Rapa Nui island is World Heritage by Unesco so Rollar permissions are very restricted. So far only two fictions have been shot on this small south Pacific island: the film Great rubber produced by Kevin Kostner in 1994 and television scenes John In 1998. Since then, permits have been prohibited to this day. Tiki Group has achieved permission to film in this enclave being able to access even corners of the island never filmed and erecting as the first fiction series shot there.