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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.

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
- Cast
- Ana María CARRIÓN, Pancho AGUIRRE, Gabriel SALTOS, Jean Carlo CABRERA
- 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