Andalucía Enjoys Bumper Year as Backdrop for Hollywood Blockbusters

Andalucía Enjoys Bumper Year as Backdrop for Hollywood Blockbusters

Films being made in Spain are on the up

Andalucía offers something beautiful and varied, which has resulted in it gaining quite the reputation as a backdrop for world-class movies and TV shows. Andalucía was the filming location as 1,336 TV shows and films across 2016.

This represents an increase of 10% on 2015 and is a sign of the status the region holds for being the Hollywood of Spain.

With this growth came a number of benefits to the region, as the official data from the tourism board of Andalucía shows the economy was boosted by €118 in 2016 thanks to all the TV and film shooting. Some 15,500 jobs – most of which were temporary – were also created.

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Andalucía councillor Francisco Javier Fernandez praised the city as becoming one of the leaders of cine-tourism. The success has been thanks to a collaboration with the Andalucía Film Commission.

The film industry has generated plenty of employment for the community and has stimulated the economy. Thanks to information from travel portals such as TripAdvisor, there has been an increase in the number of people searching for holidays in the areas where films and TV shows were filmed.

Andalucía served as the backdrop for major motion pictures and TV shows such as The Trip to Spain, Game of Thrones, and the Spanish adventure film Oro. Seville has become a popular destination due to the incredible sunlight, stunning architecture, and the willingness of the city council to welcome big budge

t productions.

Moving beyond Seville, the mountainous terrains of Andalucía make it a prime choice for a range of genres and styles of TV shows and films, from historical productions to futurist ones.

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Spain Slowly Becoming Hollywood’s Favourite Backdrop Once More

Spain Slowly Becoming Hollywood’s Favourite Backdrop Once More

There was a time when Almería was the background for many US Westerns. Now it looks like Spain is becoming featured across many different genres.

Many of Hollywood's elite are visiting Spain

The 60s saw the Spaghetti Western – movies that appeared to be set in the dry and arid deserts of the American west. In reality these scenes were usually filmed in an arid desert, it’s just they were filmed in south-east Spain in Almería.

While the wagons aren’t in town anymore (though a theme park dedicated to western cinema still is) it looks like Hollywood and TV are coming back to Spain for filming.

One very famous example is Game of Thrones, the crown jewel of HBO. Some scenes from the show were filmed in Seville in Andalucía. Scenes recorded for season six were flimed in the Bardenas Reales nature reserve found in Navarra.

Major BBC show Doctor Who has even been filmed in Spain in Fuerteventura. One of the newest offerings of the BBC, Penny Dreadful, is to bring back the western heritage of Almería as many scenes were filmed in the desert there.

Spain offers filmmakers a large number of landscapes and envionments for their movies and shows. Spain has arid deserts, beaches, mountains and woodland packed into one country. The country also offers financial incentives to bring in film crews by making it cheaper for them through taxes (or lack thereof).

While these tax breaks might be better in other countries (France and Germany provide 30% and 40% tax breaks while Spain only offers 15%), Spain is cheaper in general to shoot in. This is according to the President of the Spain Film Comission (SFC) Carlos Rosado.

Mr Rosado said that the people of Spain are trained well and have a deep cultural heritage. The country itself is also easier to get around and better to spend time in. You can find yourself in snow on a mountain in the morning and be back on a tropical beach by the afternoon. Spain is a small country but offers a wide array of contrasting climates.

As the film industry continues to evolve it becomes easier and cheaper for film crews to travel as they don’t need to lug around tons of equipment and staff anymore. Spain itself also has plenty of equipment and is well supplied and able to give the film crews anything they need. They are able to provide more than just extras for scenes. Spain is also able to offer electricians to fully qualified actors.

Spain is getting a lot of benefits from this too of course. They have seen a rise in tourism and information thanks to tourist trails where fans travel to the locations scenes from their favourite shows were filmed. They have also experienced an economic boost thanks to the services, hotels, and local work being done by filmmakers.

To provide an example; around €800,000 was spent in Spain during the production for the film Exodus starring Christian Bale. Spain is also building a solid reputation among filmmakers. If they continue to please HBO then this makes Spain even more popular and brings in even more work for the local industry.