Canadian film heads festival nominations
The Tenerife International Film Festival gets under way towards the end of this month, bringing together a mix of popular English and foreign language films and small-budget offerings from independent film makers.
The event is based around the playground resort of Playa de las Americas in the south of the island from April 21-28.
Taking the lion’s share of award nominations is a Canadian film, ‘Tripping the Wire’, which is nominated in six of the eleven categories, namely best film, best actor and actress, best supporting actor and actress and best director.
A two-hour murder mystery set in Montreal and directed by Canadian director Stephen Surjik, Tripping the Wire stars Clark Johnson as street-wise detective Stephen Tree, who is struggling to keep a past crime of his own secret as he attempts to solve the brutal murder of a man set on fire.
The film is made by the Canadian company Galafilm.
The Tenerife festival also includes categories for best documentary, best short film, best foreign language film, best animated film, and best music video.