La isla de las mentiras

Fiction. Based on real events. In the early morning of January 2, 1921, the ship Santa Isabel, bound for Buenos Aires with 260 people on board sunk off the rugged and hard coast of the island of Sálvora, in Galicia. In the absence of men on the island, three young islanders, María (Nerea Barros), Josefa (Victoria Teijeiro) and Cipriana (Ana Oca), decide to go to the rescue and saved 48 people, a heroic act that would pay for dearly. After these events, an Argentinian journalist, León (Darío Grandinetti), goes to Sálvora to cover the news of the shipwreck. Step by step he discovers that there were too many coincidences on the island that night, even suspecting that the shipwreck could have been caused. From then on nothing will be the same. The shipwreck will shake and change the life on the island forever.

Paula Cons is a specialist in fiction based on actual events (La isla de las Lies, Lobos Sucios, Oro Negro) and in investigative documentaries La Batalla Desconocida, by TVE, TVG, Agadic and ICAA, available on Amazon, of which she is also the scriptwriter, selected to competition at SEMINCI in the DocsEspaña section; and O Caso Diana Quer. 500 days, commissioned by TVG, which narrates the 500 days of investigation of this case alternating a rigorous journalistic treatment with fictionalized sequences and nominated for best investigative documentary at the Celtic Media Festival. She is the executive producer and one of the scriptwriters of the film Lobos sucios, premiered at the American Mill Valley Festival. She is the Executive Producer and one of the scriptwriters of the documentary Mind forward (The future of the Mind), the only Spanish project that has obtained a development MEDIA grant in 2018. Her latest project, the Oro Negro series, has been selected in Content London, C21, in the top30 Best Drama Series Pitch.

Spanish Female Authors Competition

Year of Production: 2019

Running Time: 93’

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish

Director: Paula Cons

Cast: Nerea Barros, Aitor Luna, Darío Grandinetti, Victoria Teijeiro, Ana Oca, María Costas, Milo Taboada, Celso Bugallo, Machi Salgado, Mela Casal, Leire Berrocal, Javier Tolosa, Sergio Quintana, Miguel Borines, Roberto Leal and Ana Santos

Producers: Luis Marías Amondo, Victoria Aizenstat and Jose Mazeda

Production Companies:  Agallas Films, Aleph Cine, ETB, Historias del Tío Luis, INCAA, ICAA, Ibermedia, TVE and Televisión de Galicia (TVG)

International Sales: Filmax

Main Festivals and Awards: Winner of five Mestre Mateo awards.