The Valencian Community shows its potential as a filming set

The ‘Region of Valencia: WHERE Filming Is Wellcome (the Valencian Community as a film set)’ is aimed at promoting the national and international scope of audiovisual productions in the Valencian Community.

Tourism Valencian Community With the collaboration of Valencian audiovisual producers (PAV) has launched the initiative Region of Valencia: WHERE FILming IS WellCome (the Valencian Community as a film set) whose objective is to promote at the national and international level the filming of audiovisual productions in the Valencian Community.

This initiative consists of different actions such as the implementation of a agglutinating website of the offer of locations, filming and benefits to roll in the Valencian Community, media campaign and assistance to events in the sector.

To the web valenciaregionfilm.com It is already operational and it is a platform in permanent construction, agglutinator of the supply of locations of the Valencian Community and the different film officers existing in Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, which reports the advantages of filming in the Community, different scenarios, different locations and shootings that are underway in the area. A platform in constant development and informative for the entire audiovisual industry that can already be visited.

The Community has a Architecture adaptable to all times, to all stories. It has 524 kilometers of coast and beaches, 23 natural parks, rocky and mountainous areas, as well as huge palaces, castles and historical heritage, charming squares, streets, modern and old bridges, large cities and rural areas ... all kinds of locations in an extension of 23,000 km² that allow the power to be the scene of the best productions framed in any type of locations with more than 300 days. In the Valencian Community it is possible to find everything necessary to give life to stories of the past, the present or future. Coast and mountain. Forests and deserts. From millenary monuments to avant -garde architecture. A variety of locations with all kinds of services and facilities to become the scenario of any type of production.

Success productions

Multiple are the recent productions that have been released in recent months and that have been shot in a place of the Community. Key figures of our cinema like Pedro Almodóvar (Pain and glory, candidate for this year's Oscars), which chose the caves of Paterna as the childhood scenario of a future film director, young directors already consecrated such as Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The kingdom), successful series as The jetty (Movistar+) in which the Albufera Natural Park emerges as a decoration and natural scenario of a three -band relationship or the city of arts and sciences, as a futuristic scenario of large -budget productions such as Tomorrowland or international series such as Westworld or Dr. Who.

Other productions were the precursors of the previous ones such as the landing of Anthony Mann and Charlton Heston with The Cid In Peñíscola, a city converted in the 70s in Calabuch, eternal work of the teacher Berlanga, the free city of Meereen of Game of Thrones or where he was Pepe's chiringuito In the successful television series.

The city of Benidorm has also been the location chosen for the British series of the same name. In addition, it will be the shooting of the future production of El Desire and directed by Isabel Coixet, Snows in Benidorm.