The funds total a combined $56.8m (€52m) a year, according to the Italian Film Commissions body. Not only does this help attract incoming productions but it boosts the local production sector, and provides jobs and training opportunities for local professionals. What makes the Italian network stand out is that most also offer grants to local and international productions shooting in their region. ![]() Attractive dealsįilm commissions the world over tend to be funded by local government entities, often with a tourism component. ![]() Sicilia is just one of 19 regional organisations dotted around Italy working hard to put the country at the forefront of all the major locations conversations had by the US studios and steamers and the big international film and TV producers. Just as eye-catching in its own way was the impressive stand the Sicilia Film Commission took at the Majestic Hotel at Cannes Film Festival in 2022.Īttracting film and TV shoots to a region or country is bigger business than ever because the economic impact of a shoot and the knock-on tourism value can be huge. With the Ionian Sea as a glittering backdrop, the drama put on abundant displays of exactly what Italy offers as a filming location and sparked an explosion of press about the joys of holidaying on the volcanic island. One of the biggest ‘stars’ to emerge from the second series of HBO’s The White Lotus was the Sicilian coastal town of Taormina, where the production filmed. Halmi, with partner Fehmi Zeko, now manage US-based The Studio Fund, a specialised investment fund that is developing and managing state-of-the-art film and television production centres in the USA, including Lionsgate Studios in Yonkers, NY, Lionsgate Studios in Newark, NJ and others to be announced soon.HBO’s ‘The White Lotus’ filmed in Scicily Great Point Media was founded in 2013 by Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi. The site recently hosted Gareth Evan’s Netflix action-thriller, Havoc, staring Tom Hardy and is currently home to a major high-end US television production. The entire Great Point Seren Studios complex is powered by green electricity, generated on-site by a dedicated wind turbine – and planned new studio buildings will feature “green rooves” as part of a landscape masterplan aimed at enhancing and protecting the habitats of the local flora and fauna. We look forward to the potential for boundary-pushing research and development (R&D) activity in this new space in our city region.” It signals a clear ambition: to provide a high-end facility which will attract interest from content creators across the globe. Professor Sara Pepper OBE, Deputy Director of Media Cymru said: “The development of a world-class virtual production studio and training and research facility at Seren will have a profound impact on the media cluster in the Cardiff Capital Region and a ripple effect throughout Wales and the UK. We want to keep pace with that innovation to ensure that we can offer any production the facilities and systems required to meet their diverse and changing needs.” ![]() Jim Reeve, Great Point Media’s co-founder and CEO said: “LED walls and virtual production workstreams are already beginning to reshape the business of making films and television programmes. The new facility, dubbed Seren Virtual Productions, will offer a one stop, end-to-end solution supporting all aspects of virtual (and physical) production – including a range of volume (LED wall) configurations designed to meet any project’s specific needs. In addition to hosting full-scale film and high-end television projects from across the UK and internationally, the facility will comprise a virtual production research and training academy in collaboration with Media Cymru aimed at continuing to develop the region into a thriving global hub for media innovation – with a focus on emergent and green technologies. Great Point Media, the diversified London-based media group that has invested more than £500 million into the creative industries worldwide, is collaborating with Fields Park, US-based Volume Global and Media Cymru, a consortium of creative and educational institutions in South Wales to build a world-class virtual production hub at Great Point Seren Studios in Cardiff.
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