ATALAYA
In 2021, the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on La Palma (Canary Islands), for 85 days destroying homes and lives along its path. Amid this chaos, Beatriz, a resilient islander, offers a remarkable perspective. Though the eruption destroyed her vineyard and home, she carries no bitterness. Instead, she shares a profound and poetic vision of the intricate bond between humans and earth. The film is an experimental documentary, guided by eclectic Beatriz and unique audio-visual world built through microscopic images and low-frequency sounds of the surrounding nature, making us rediscover and reflect upon the meaning of living in the shadows of such a powerful and unpredictable force, and the connection with it.
- Language Spanish
- Country Spain
- Genre
- Producer La Selva - Ecosistema Creatiu, Liliana Díaz Castillo, Marc Villa Bosch, Paulina Martinez, WERNER HERZOG FOUNDATION
- Cast BEATRIZ CASTRO ROCHA
- Year of creation 2025
- Duration 00:10:00
Elena is an italian-romanian screenwriter and director. After her bachelor's degree in Visual Arts (Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan) she has been working as freelance photographer and filmmaker, heading toward the path of Cinema. Along with her master studies in Filmmaking (RUFA, Rome) and at FAMU (Prague), she developed her work experience on film sets in various roles, especially in Production and Directing departments. She collaborated with renowned directors, including Marco Bellocchio, Leonardo di Costanzo, and recently Werner Herzog. In 2023 she debuted with "The Land You Belong", her first feature length documentary, an Italy-Romania co-production supported by EURIMAGE, E-R Film Commission, Al Jazeera Documentary, CNC ecc. The film premiered at 63°Krakow Film Festival and won the "Best Documentary" award at BIOGRAFILM and now is available on Amazon Prime. She is now developing her second feature documentary “She Got Game” and recently participated at the 3rd Film Accelerator residency with Werner Herzog and Peter Zeitlinger. Through her works, Elena experiments diverse mediums and stories, exploring unique characters and situations, trying to raise more questions than answers regarding our contemporary world.
