Hello I'm from Spain. My hometown is Terrassa (30km from Barcelona) and we have the "luck" to have a wonderful city with an awesome place wich was an old hospital right now abandoned. So our cityhall thought it could be nice to the city become "the city of cinema" in Catalonia and in Spain. The project started quite well since many companies (Filmax mainly) decided to stablish an office in there.
So everything was looking really good, even the film archive and the film school came to the town. Many hollywood studios and film were interested in this place, since it's very well comunicated with the airport and Barcelona city. In about 20 minutes you reach from the airport to the town, so films, comercials and music videos started to be shot here. I was reallly really happy with that, with having a film city just 5 minutes from my house.
Then, our city government thought to itself "hey man, this looks really promising...Why don't we rise all the taxes to a level where nobody will want to come here?"... and that's what they did and then Valencia appered with "la ciudad de la luz" where taxes were virtually none, so most of the things moved there.
The situation right now is that there are thing such as films, comercials, music videos thar are shot here in my town but not as much as could be done. Las october I was there shooting a movie called "grand piano" starred by elijah wood and jon cusak .I was as an extra
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So, here i give you links:
This is Ciudad de la Luz in Valencia
http://web.ciudaddelaluz.com/EN (this is where the movie "The impossible" was shot)
This is in my home town, Parc Audiovisual de Catalunya
http://www.parcaudiovisual.cat/idioma-M ... ngles.htmlSo, this is my story, I hope you read it all
Jesus