CIIF Market 2022 has launched the first edition of CIIF MARKET Lab – Canarian Literary Works Laboratory, in collaboration with the Canarian Cultural Association of Writers – ACTE Canarias, in order to increase cooperation between the film and publishing sectors. Five works of various genres and aimed at all audiences, selected by a committee of experts who have evaluated the quality of the works, the talent of the authors and the feasibility of being adapted to film, television or digital platforms.
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EL CASO DE LA PENSIÓN PADRÓN
Publisher: La Esfera Cultural
Author: Ana Joyanes, Francisco Concepción
Genre: Crime, Thriller
ARGUMENT
Based on a real event. For more than a year, the clients of a centrally located boarding house slept on a mattress that hid a rotting corpse. There is a subterranean world very close to us that we do not know about and that goes unnoticed. A news that moved the Canary Islands.
BIOGRAPHY
Francisco Concepción Álvarez Author of several novels, theater and film scripts: “Des-Ahuciados”, “Lamiendo cactus”, “Felicidad a domicilio”, “Sobre mí también llueve”…Directs the publishing house La Esfera Cultural. Ana Joyanes Doctor and Writer. She has published the novels “Lágrimas mágicas”, “Sangre y fuego”, “Noa y los dioses del tiempo” … She has participated in different literary magazines and anthologies.
EL CÍRCULO DE LOS ESPEJOS
Publisher: Docemasuna Publishing Services
Author: Falbalá Kross
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Mystery
ARGUMENT
Six friends maintain the habit of having a weekly camping trip together every summer. In 2012, as a fun and original joke, they incorporated a ritual into the experience. Far from the expected, it does work. It starts as a game, but ends up putting his own identity at stake, confronting his own stereotypes, fears, desires and wishes.
BIOGRAPHY
Falbalá Kross is the pseudonym under which the author of the trilogy “Our Other Reality”, a science fiction saga full of emotion and mystery, is known. Born in Tenerife (1992), she began her artistic career linked to music and performing arts. It is in 2017 when she publishes her first novel, “The Circle of Mirrors”.
EL DEMONIO NACIDO DE LA TIERRA
Publisher: Entre Libros Editorial LXL
Author: Sarah Maher
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery
ARGUMENT
Sofia discovers that she has a gift and will be immersed in a struggle where the guild of hunters, seers and sorcerers will try to stop the leader of a sect that aims to open the gates of Heaven with the keys of each bearer, including Sofia herself, who will find herself involved in a power war.
BIOGRAPHY
Sara Maher is from Tenerife, with a degree in Performing Arts and a diploma in Tourism. She currently has six novels published with Entre Libros Editorial, counting several editions in all of them in a short period of time. Three of them have been selected by Ciif Market in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
EL LATIDO DE AL-MAGREB
Publisher: MAR Editor
Author: Pablo Martín Carbajal
Genre: History, Politics, Adventure
ARGUMENT
A discovery has been made in the Moroccan mosque, some old doors closed with a padlock with four locks. A Spaniard together with the person in charge of the mosque, a Moroccan of jihadist aspect, will start an adventure to find the keys that open the padlock and discover the secret that they enclose. Morocco, Mauritania, Sahara, history, geopolitics, religion, understanding between cultures.
BIOGRAPHY
Pablo Martín Carbajal has written five novels, Tú eres azul cobalto, La ciudad de las miradas, La felicidad amarga, which correspond to his intimate phase. And Tal Vez Dakar and El latido de Al-Magreb, adventure novels, historical, geopolitical, about the encounter with the other and the understanding between cultures.
LA SOMBRA Y LA TORTUGA
Publisher: NACE
Author: Alberto Omar Walls
Genre: Comedy
ARGUMENT
Liberto narrates his passage from slave to free in the 17th century in the Canary Islands, where the Guanche culture coexists with that of the Europeans. It shows, without acrimony, people in painful contradictions, since it understands that the errors are due to wrong decisions, taken at that time where avatars and sets culminate with the longed-for voyages to the New World.
BIOGRAPHY
Director, teacher, theater and film actor from the Canary Islands. Master in Cultural Management and Postgraduate in Cultural Policies, he has taught Literature, Creative Writing and Verse Interpretation. More than forty published titles (novels, short stories, theater, poetry, research) certify his career as a writer.