what is the future of Portugal as a fashion destination for filming films and series? – Observer
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“Fast and furious”. This is the name of one of the greatest deductibles of cinema in recent years, box office success who cut roads through Viseu and who repeated the dose in Almada. But it could also be the name, translated into Portuguese, given to the current moment of audiovisual in Portugal. Hmm bang which generated investment, which put the country’s name on the sharks’ route from streaming“Countries, other countries that close to the beginning of the example co-series between Portugal and and that give their lives, for, to the first Portuguese series on Netflix, “Glória”. All this is happening — 2018 decided to do, as long as it may be desirable or country that is being summoned to Europe: a system of inviting those who invest, called “very likely” with a guaranteed return of a percentage of the expenses by the part of the Portuguese State.
That is why, at the same time that Portugal started an attractive co-production path (“Auga Seca”, for example) with countries like Spain or Iceland (“Cold Haven”, still in pre-production), it also became for movie giants: the new “Fast and Furious” movie; the prequel to “War of Thrones”, “House of the Dragon” (HBO), landed in Monsanto, in Idanha à Nova, in 2021; “Heart of Stone” (Netflix), with Gal Gadot, visited villages in several parishes in Lisbon; and the village of Rab will be the protagonist of a production of Peixe for the same platform Ukbar Filme. But will it definitely be the time for Portuguese producers, actors, technicians to show what they are worth in the international market and catapult the country’s “doubt” to a level never seen before? From doing with cinema and series what happened to tourism?
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