Atresplayer Premium and Buendía Estudios start filming 'Las noches de Tefía'

Tefía's nights, the new original fiction of Atresplayer Premium created by the playwright and screenwriter Miguel de Arco begins filming in Tenerife and Madrid.

It is a production of Buendía Estudios Canarias with the participation of Atresmedia Television. The fiction has Montse García and Sonia Martínez in executive production and Lucía Alonso-Allende as co-executive producer. Miguel del Arco and Antonio Rojano signed the script and Miguel del Arco himself together with Romulus Aguillaume they are in charge of the management.

Tefía's nights is based on a desert area of Fuerteventura in which between 1954 and 1966 there was a Francoist concentration camp known by the euphemistic name of Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía, one of the many places where the regime sent those condemned by the law of vagrants and thugs that, from 1954, was implemented to also include homosexuals.

In 2004 Airam Betancor, one of those homosexual prisoners, is forced to remember the seventeen months of forced labor he suffered in the colony when he was barely twenty years old. The investigations of a documentary filmmaker who tries to give voice to the story of silence in the penal colony force Airam to make a painful exercise in memory that will cause many problems in his life.

The dormant memory of the terrible life in the colony is mixed with that of the stories that one of his barracks companions improvised at night to alleviate his miseries. Charli, the fantastic narrator, invented El Tindaya for all of them, a dazzling music hall where each one has his alter ego. A space of freedom in which, as its welcome theme says, the limit of what is possible explodes when imagining.

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