Tinglado Film

Tinglado Film is an independent film and television production company based in Garachico, Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands. Founded by filmmaker David Baute, the studio works across auteur documentaries, creative non-fiction, fiction and traditional 2D animation. Its editorial interests include human rights, climate migration, environmental change and collective memory, with an emphasis on stories rooted in social and cultural experience.

The company’s creative roots extend to documentary initiatives in the early 2000s, before its legal incorporation in 2005. Documentary filmmaking remains central to its work, while its subsequent expansion into animation has brought hand-painted and drawn approaches to feature films and shorts for adult and general audiences. Its productions range from intimate documentary portraits to animated accounts of displacement and environmental pressures.

Production and international collaboration

The studio develops and produces feature films, documentary series and animated shorts, alongside international co-production management, animation art direction and location production in the Canary Islands. It describes its island base as a crossroads for creative relationships linking Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Southern Europe. Co-production is a recurring part of its approach, connecting projects with partners across Spain and international markets.

Its catalogue includes the animated feature Mariposas Negras, the documentary Éxodo Climático, the fiction and documentary hybrid Sugar Island, and earlier films such as Ella(s) and Milagros. More recent work includes the documentary Benigno and the animated short Tsunami. As of November 2026, its reported production slate also includes the features Lejos Cerca and Cave of Dreams.

Beyond screen production, Tinglado Film organizes cultural platforms that connect filmmaking with public exhibition and project development. These include the Canary Islands Environmental Film Festival, FICMEC, and the reality-film festival and incubator Miradas Afroindígenas. This activity extends its involvement in cinema from developing and producing individual works to supporting spaces for filmmakers, audiences and emerging projects.