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Audiovisual Productions imal with Sonimac premiere this Friday, day 29 June from the 20:30 hours in Multicines Monopol, the feature documentary 'The harvest of alisio'.
For its realization They have been filmed over 50 hours on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Madrid, UK and Netherlands. It has also incorporated an important part of unreleased material from audiovisual archives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Filmoteca Canaria, Cabildo de Tenerife, Museum Zafra, Community Development Project Cultural Village, Gran Canaria Digital Space and FEDAC (Cabildo de Gran Canaria), ULPGC, Ikastor Films, Europe, US and private archives.
"The harvest of alisio" It is a choral documentary, through testimonials and recovered files, outlines snippets of activity Canary tomato exports in more than a century of history. In addition to conditioning the economy, the geography, demography, sociology and culture of much of the twentieth century in the Canary Islands, also he marked the lives of its protagonists.
Addressing the terms or tomato harvest means, inescapably, evoke memory, the memory, semblanzas, but mostly stories of pride and self-improvement.
The director of the documentary, Victor M. War, notes that the piece includes the history of the culture and tomato exports in the Canary Islands dating back to the year 1885, according to historians. It was an almost hegemonic export activity that dominated so, until the first third of the twentieth century, English entrepreneurs as Swamston, Fyffes, Leacock, Jones or Miller and occupied many farmers and sharecroppers who were displaced (molting) the interior of the island and between islands growing areas.
From now on, changing hands in activity desgrana, British canaries producers and the ups and downs suffered between the two world wars, the civil War, autarky and EU membership. Throughout this long process the role of women has been essential and perhaps the great forgotten, recalls Victor M. War.
While the business was which determined the seasonality of the crop, the documentary reflects What were the elements that influenced the loss of dominance European markets.
The last quarter of the twentieth century was the most convulsive for this sector. A conflict generated in sharecropping, He was joined by joining the EEC Protocol II; and the highest peak production: 350.000 tonnes exported, It was reduced by the arrival of pests and viral diseases hitherto unknown.
Bibliographic production that has been allocated to this sector from the point of view of history, the economy, demography, agronomy, the sociology, the gastronomy, literature and art, It is relatively large. However, there are few audiovisual that have occurred on one of the most important activities in the recent history of the Canary Islands. This was a pending issue that we have begun to cover, He concludes the director of the documentary.
"The harvest of alisio"It is a professional product, dynamic, with testimonies of its protagonists, What Current uses of filmic images and historical documentary archives. The technical quality used in recording and editing has been the emerging standard for digital cinema 4K resolution.
This project is a gamble feature documentary format created by Imal Audiovisual Productions, S.L. with the support of Sonimac, S.L., both Canary entrepreneurial companies audiovisual sector, that after the premiere trading room it will be broadcast on Public Television Canaria.
'The harvest of Alisio' has enjoyed the participation of Television Canaria (TVP Canaria) and support of the Councils of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Horticultural Export Federation of Las Palmas, FEDEX and collaboration of the city councils of, San Btmé. de Tirajana, Santa María de Guía, the Canary Islands Government, the company Koppert, Canarias Cajamar Foundation and the cooperative Coagrisan La Aldea de San Nicolás.