Documentary “Cayuco”
Aims and proposals
The European Centre of Studies about Flows of Immigrants, with funding of the Vice-department of social affairs and employment of the Canary Islands Government and through the production company “Pantalla Canaria, S.L.”, directed this documentary about the African immigration in the Canary Islands, from the point of view of African people who get involved in the adventure of arriving to Europe over the nearest and most accessible point from their place of origin: the Canary Islands.
In a later stage, and thanks to the economic support received from the Institutional co-operation and International solidarity Department of the Gran Canaria council, and to the involvement of the audiovisual production company “Careli Records, S.L.”, the subtitles have been translated into several languages (English, French, Italian, Arabic and Catalan), with the purpose of broadcasting it also in West Africa, countries of the European Union and the Autonomous Community of Catalonia.
Synopsis
"Cayuco" is a film documentary that tells harrowingly the poverty suffered by those sub-Saharan Africans who get involved in an uncertain voyage over the desert and the ocean searching for a better life. It's a picture family life of the hard reality that the phenomenon of the illegal immigration represents trying to get into Europe through the Canary Islands.
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The European Centre of Studies about Flow of Immigrants was created on October 1
st 2003, with a view to promoting proposals, studies and social activities about the immigration, one of the main challenges whom the Canary Archipelago will must face up during the next decades. The Association intents to search for solutions to these problems through a strict and multidisciplinary analysis of the migratory fact.
