SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 27. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Canary Islands International Environmental Film Festival (FICMEC) will host the world premiere of ‘Cumbre Vieja, a land forged by fire’, by Canarian director Pedro Felipe Acosta, which shows a journey through the geological history of the most active volcanic ridge in Canary Islands.
The film is screened in the old convent of San Francisco de Garachico at 5:45 p.m. and is part of the Ecoislas section of the Festival, a space for the exhibition of environmental cinema made in the Archipelago by filmmakers from the islands.
It will be held on Tuesday, May 30 as FICMEC’s contribution to the commemoration of Canary Islands Day as dissemination, recognition and reflection on the value of natural heritage and the insular environment.
Acosta will hold a meeting with the public at FICMEC to discuss this unique and fascinating vision in which he offers impressive images and testimonials from experts in volcanology and geology that allow the public to immerse themselves in the area’s volcanic past and present and appreciate the beauty of the natural processes and the fragility of the environment in a volcanic context.
As in most of his documentaries, Acosta takes charge of the direction, editing and photography in this film -the latter work shared with Arai Alonso Melián-; the soundtrack is provided by Christian Johansen.
Pedro Felipe Acosta is one of the most prestigious nature documentary directors in Spain. He has made nature documentaries in the Canary Islands with the aim of promoting interest in the conservation of its wildlife.
‘Cumbre Vieja, a land forged by fire’ is produced by Alas Cinematografía SL and the Instituto Tecnológico de Energías Renovables (ITER), with the collaboration of the Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan) and co-financed by the European Commission within the Volturmac program, conceived to contribute to the strengthening of the conservation, protection, promotion and development of the natural and cultural heritage associated with the volcanic phenomenon in the four inhabited archipelagos of this Atlantic island region: Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores.
The programming of this section is completed with the projection, at 5:00 p.m., of the short film ‘Garajonay a bird’s eye view’, by Juan Carlos Moreno, who will also be present in the room to participate in the subsequent discussion.
Juan Carlos Moreno shows in ‘Garajonay, a bird’s eye view’ the extraordinary value of the ancestral laurel forests of the Garajonay National Park on La Gomera. The Canarian director dedicated a year to recording the images using drones, for the most part, which offers the opportunity to observe this territory from where the birds do, in flight over the exuberant foliage and submerged in it .
The long time spent observing and collecting maps allows us to observe the changing nature of the best-preserved laurel forest in the Canary Islands. Thus, Moreno achieves a new and fascinating vision that helps to discover this essential jewel of Canarian nature.
Moreno’s team for the filming of the film has Ángel Fernández in the script and co-direction and with KC Martín in the music. The production is carried out by Drones Gomera, founded by Moreno himself to promote work on photo-identification of exotic flora, monitoring of leaks in water supply networks with a thermal camera and other work on island territories. The director has directed other environmental-themed documentaries, including ‘Senderos de Canarias’ and ‘Gestión del agua en La Gomera, obra de titanes’.
