Secuoya Studios and Tiki Group will produce the first fiction series filmed 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 production and entertainment division of the Secuoya group, will produce in collaboration with Tiki Group (Chile-Mexico) the first fiction series filmed 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 coast and designated a World Heritage Site for housing the monumental Moai (sculptures with human faces) and keeping the primitive Polynesian culture alive.

This will be the scene of The Island, a thriller of eight episodes of fifty minutes each, which will show this spectacular location to the whole world. The producers David Martinez (Sequoia 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 former Rapanui police officer to find her in this magical and mysterious place.

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

the island It is also written by an exceptional team: the recently nominated Goya, Eligio Montero (Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Gran Hotel, Hierro y Great Reserve) and the blockbuster Chilean crime novel director and writer, Boris Quercia (author of the trilogy starring detective Santiago Quiñones and which won him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and the feature film Sex with love).

The entire Rapa Nui island is World Heritage by UNESCO so the permissions to film are very restricted. So far only two fictions have been filmed on this small island in the South Pacific: the film Rapa Nui produced by Kevin Kostner in 1994 and scenes from the television series John in 1998. Since then, permits have been banned to this day. Tiki Group has obtained permission to film in this location, even being able to access corners of the island never filmed and becoming the first fiction series filmed there.