- On Wednesday, April 30, at 7 p.m. at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, producer Rita Vera will moderate a round table with Mexican producer and production manager Yadira Ávalos and executive producer and development executive María Beltrán
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.- The Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media CIMA will offer a space for reflection within the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival once again. Tomorrow, April 30, at 7 p.m. at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, three of its members will participate in a round table focused on the role played by local film production.
Mexican producer and production manager Yadira Ávalos, who is based in Spain, and executive producer and development executive María Beltrán will delve into this topic in a talk moderated by producer Rita Vera.
According to this edition’s catalog, CIMA has decided to focus the meeting on “the importance of telling stories with roots, those that emerge from local identity and contribute to enriching the audiovisual landscape.” They will do so because, for them, cinema “defines and preserves the identity of a place and local production plays a key role in building a unique imaginary,” the text explains.
The topic will be addressed by three recognized professionals with experience in producing narratives “that resonate both locally and globally.”
Yadira Ávalos has worked in Mexico with directors such as Arturo Ripstein. In Spain she has collaborated with renowned filmmakers such as Nacho Vigalondo, Jaume Balagueró, Eduardo Casanovas or Claudia Pinto; but also with more than sixty emerging ones. Her knowledge has been demonstrated in tv series like Élite and La Unidad–in Netflix, the former, and in Movistar, the latter–. In 2021 she founded NAIF FILMS in Gran Canaria to promote new talents.
María Beltrán began working as executive producer and development executive in 2017. Since then, she has consolidated her career in both fields by working on several feature films and short films. Currently and in parallel, she is working on her first two projects as a writer and director.
Rita Vera, founder of the production company Tecamedia, will moderate and conduct the debate. Vera, who coordinated for five years the ‘Short Project’ within the Ibero-American Film Showcase (Ibértigo), has diversified her focus towards artistic management and representation in the music field.
Partners, sponsors and collaborators of the 24 FICLPGC
The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, organized by the Culture area of the Gran-Canarian capital’s City Council through Promoción de la Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has received public assistance by the ICAA [Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts], the Visitors’ Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE), of the Spanish Public Agency for Cultural Action (AC/E), as well as public support from Promotur Turismo Islas Canarias.
Among the Festival’s collaborators we may find Fundación Auditorio Teatro, Cines Yelmo, Las Arenas Shopping Center and Hotel Cristina by Tigotan, places which also function as venues or hold activities of the film event; as well as other institutions and companies such as Sagulpa, Toyota, Royal Bliss, Fuze Tea, Coca Cola, Sholeo Lodge, Audiovisuales Canarias, Music Library &SFX, Blackout Films and International Bach Festival. Likewise, its market, MECAS, has been possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Gran Canaria Film Commission-Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria and the support of Proexca.
The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Mid Atlantic University, Digital 104, the Audiovisual Cluster of the Canary Islands, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media CIMA, the Cartagena International Film Festival, the Gijón International Film Festival, the Barcelona Independent Film Festival, the Tres Puertos Laboratory, Barcelona’s ESCAC, and Very Good Script, Freak World and Fimucité are also collaborators.
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