ON THE INVENTION OF SPECIES

LA INVENCIÓN DE LAS ESPECIES

By Tania HERMIDA

HABANERO - as SALES All rights, World

Environmental - Completed 2024

Twelve-year-old Carla is grieving when she arrives at the Galapagos, where she mutates into an “Island” to survive.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2024
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Juan (Puerto Rico) 2024
AFI Latin American FF 2024
Festival Internacional de Cine de Galápagos 2024
Havana Film Festival 2024
Feature Competition. Winner Best original Music Award
San Francisco International FF 2024
Sloan Science on Screen Award Recipient
Festival de Cine Global 2025
Miradas Hispanas
Pune International FF 2025
World Cinema Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Female director, Drama
    • Countries
    • ECUADOR, CUBA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tania HERMIDA
    • Writer(s)
    • Tania HERMIDA
    • Producer(s)
    • Tania HERMIDA (Ecuador para largo), Lía RODRÍGUEZ (VENTÚ PRODUCTIONS)
    • Synopsis
    • Twelve-year-old Carla is grieving and speechless when she arrives at the Galapagos and realizes she must mutate to survive. She thus becomes an “Island” and, imitating the iguanas learns to cling to the rocks, wait, plunge, and emerge to tell her story.

      SHOT ENTIRELY ON LOCATION IN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS



      PLOT KEYWORDS
      Galapagos | Coming-of-age | island | reinvention | grief | friendship | father-daughter relations | nature | conservancy | Ecuador