New injection from the Canarian Government to the audiovisual sector: more than €3 million

36 new audiovisual projects, including feature films, series, animation, documentaries and short films from the island, will share the 3,329,000 euros that the Government of the Canary Islands has been destined to continue supporting the audiovisual projection of the archipelago.

The selection has been made through two public calls organized during 2025 by the General Directorate of Cultural Innovation and Creative Industries, oriented to projects both in production or minority co-production phase, such as development or production of short films. The projects that will receive grant have been chosen by three expert committees, made up of a wide selection of active professionals in the field of Spanish production.

In Production, they are subsidized nine projects, of a total of thirty-seven presented, which correspond to fiction, animation and documentary films. The production companies will have until 2028 to finalize their proposals, and may receive advance payment in installments. Added to this, for the third consecutive year, is the support for Minority Co-production, which encourages Canarian production companies to benefit from collaborating with large projects promoted by companies from outside the islands. In this category in which they have been selected six projects of a total of ten presented. In the section of Development, they support twelve projects among a total of sixty presented; while in the Short Film Production category nine have been selected out of forty-three submitted.

Selected films and shorts with Canarian seal

The films selected in Production are the fiction feature films: Different species, from Different Species AIE (project by Laura Pérez Gómez that was part of the IsLABentura Canarias 2022 Script Laboratory); The Tea Garden, from Mantarraya Films and directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego; The shadow of the sand from La Creme Films, and with Aarón J. Melián in the direction, and black party, by Hormigas Negras, written and directed by Guillermo Magariños and which was part of IsLABentura Canarias 2023.

Added to this are the documentary feature films Miracle and misery from El Viaje Producciones, co-directed by Marina Alberti and José A. Alayón; Return to the green ray, by Insularia Creadores and directed by Juanma V. Betancort, and Herr Franco must go!, by Miguel G. Morales, as well as the animated series Limbo ville, by Israel Hernández, and Super Truck, directed by Rubén Zarauza and Iria G. Caballero and produced by Supertruck Season 1 AIE. It should be noted that four of them (black party, Different species, The tea garden y Herr Franco must go!) also had a grant last year in the Development category.

In Minority co-production there are the long fiction On the day of the end of the world I will find your past, from El Viaje Producciones with the Chilean Globo Rojo; cleaning ladies, by Mararía Films with the Portuguese A stone in the shoe; hunting and fishing, de MGC con la uruguaya Kiko Vivo Producciones y la argentina Pensa&Rocca, y I no longer feel my heart, from Volcano International Productions with the Swedish company Doppelganger Film. The other titles correspond to the documentaries The possibility of man, the Tourmalet Films con las holandesas Worldisuals Film y South of the Border Foundation, y The woman on the boat, by Ngaro Games La Casa de los Enigmas with the Spanish companies Burbuja Films and Freews.

Fiction feature films are in development Tropic, by Helena Girón and La Banda Negra; The escape, by Samara Galán Ramos (La Comarca Films), directed by Verónica Galán; Tierra, from La Magua Films directed by Arima León and which was part of IsLABentura Canarias 2024; electrical beings, by David Pantaleón and Los de Lito Films, Who is the virgin?, by Ana Sánchez Gijón and La Mirada Producciones; The strangers, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego of Mantarraya Films, and Arroró (lullaby), by Insularia Creadores with director Carla Valdés.

In documentaries in development are Heurtebise, by Octavio Guerra of Calibrando Producciones, a project included in the Academy Residences; And period, from Siroco Factory and directed by Javier Tolentino; noises in the water, by Imaco 89 and Joan López Lloret; the animation one Cave of dreams, co-directed by Dorota K. Welchman and David Baute, of Tinglado Film, and the series, also animated Howly wooly, by Pierre Paris in Anima Kitchent Canarias.

Los short films son evening fell, by Carolina Montesdeoca in Las Hormigas Negras; The tit, by Dailos Vega at La Magua Films; Hail in Tacoronte, by Airam Rodríguez in La Isla Media; The bird translator, by David Pantaleón (Los de Lito Films); Ravine, by Pablo Vilas and Volcano International; 210, by J. Morala and Ngaro Games The House of Enigmas; warm nature, by Joel Cazorla and Chemi Pérez, from Cabo Sur Films; By the hair, by Jeniffer Castañeda García (Nostrana Films), and, finally, The pot, by Octavio Guerra.