This year we held an event to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the declaration of the audiovisual industry as a strategic sector.
Canary Islands Film has become in these years a solid team that works in close collaboration with the Presidency, the Canary Islands Treasury, ZEC, Proexca and, of course, with the Film Commissions that manage the seven islands and the private sector.
The creation of the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster and professional associations, the reinforcement of the training offer and the promotion of the celebration of festivals and markets constitute other important milestones of these 15 years. Likewise, the provision of supercomputers and other technological advances, along with the construction of sets for interior filming, have represented another commitment to the sector on the islands.
The positive balance of these three decades of audiovisual as a strategic sector is also based on what the figures and data indicate: In just seven years (from 2017 to 2022) the number of filming of real image productions doubled (from 61 it went to 130) and quadrupled the number of animation productions (from 8 in 2018 to 34 in 2022). As for income, if the cinema left 35 million in 2017, that amount multiplied by six in 2022, exceeding 223 million, the year in which the Canary Islands broke all records. A progression that is expected to be resumed in the current year.
Another important factor is that the audiovisual industry in 2022 will involve the direct hiring of more than 15,000 professionals. Added to this is the direct employment generated by audiovisual companies that have taken advantage of the ZEC, both real image, animation, post-production and visual effects, technical and other activities, and which have grown exponentially in recent years.
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