Canary Islands host cast and crew of three major cinema productions
Friday, December 9, 2016 @ 10:17 AM
THREE silver-screen productions have been filmed in the Canary Islands in quick succession, helping to put the archipelago on the world map.
Brad Pitt and Marianne Cotillard were in Madrid last month for the première of Allied, a World War II spy film in which a Canadian pilot and French Résistance worker fall in love during a mission – and a significant chunk of the Robert Zemeckis historical epic was shot in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.
At present, the regional capital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is the location for several scenes from Down a dark hall, starring Uma Thurman (pictured above at Cannes in 2014).
Based upon the Lois Duncan novel and directed by Rodrigo Cortés, the film centres on a new student – Kit Gordy – who starts at the élite Blackwood Boarding School, where she encounters weird supernatural experiences and discovers the headmistress has dark powers.
Finally, another historical production – this time home-grown – has been partly filmed in the Canary Islands: Salvador Calvo's 1898, Los últimos de Filipinas ('1898: The Last of the Philippines'), set during the end of Spain's colonial rule over the Asian nation.
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