India, Spain Agency Up Business Relations At Movie Bazaar

Movie Bazaar host nation India and Spain are looking for to enhance ties within the movie and TV industries.
Delegations from each international locations final week signed a three-way memorandum supposed to spice up manufacturing and help filmmakers. The deal was signed by the Producers Guild of India, the Spain Movie Fee and Casa de la India.

“The affiliation will assist Indian producers – throughout movie, tv and digital content material – to entry one of the best of kit, expertise, amenities, places, incentives and authorities help when capturing in Spain,” mentioned the PGI on Friday.

The 2 international locations have an audiovisual co-production treaty that was signed in 2012. However the NFDC’s Movie Facilitation Workplace web site reveals no instance of it getting used for a function movie.

Adjoining to the MOU, business delegations sat down to debate cooperation. The Producers Guild of India delegation was led by president, Shibasish Sarkar and executives from Yash Raj Movies, Netflix India, Amazon Studios, Sony Photos, Luv Movies, Applause Leisure, Abundantia Leisure, Roy Kapur Movies and SOL Productions.

The Spanish delegation was led by Carlos Rosado Cobián (president of the Spain Movie Fee) and included Juan Manuel Guimerans (Spain Movie Fee); Guillermo Rodriguez (director, Casa de la India), Fernando Victoria de Lecea, president of PROFILM, the Spanish line producers affiliation.

A number of of the delegates will attend the NFDC-backed Movie Bazaar venture market, which runs Nov. 20-24 in Goa. They embody Pok Productions Juan Antonio Casado, delegates from the Spain Movie Fee, and Casa de la India’s Rodriguez.

Casado is at present in superior preparations on the Spain-India co-venture movie “The Princess of Kapurthala,” to be collectively directed by Michael Radford (“Il Postino”) and Manuel Estudillo.

Rodriguez, founding father of Valladolid-based Casa de la India, is an creator, scholar and producer with many years of expertise specializing in relations between the 2 cultures. In 2010 he acquired the González-Sinde Award from the Spanish Movie Academy for the promotion of Spanish cinema in India by the Spanish Movie Pageant. Two years later, he was awarded the Friendship Award by the Indian authorities’s Minister of Exterior Affairs, for his contribution to Indo-Spanish cultural relations.