Audiovisual filming in Lisbon generates a return of more than 150 ME in a decade – Economy
The data are from the Lisbon Film Commission, marking ten years of existence “in order to expedite authorizations and procedures revealed in filming requests”, from Portuguese and foreign producers in the city.
In a statement, the municipal structure reveals the support given to cinematographic, audiovisual and photographic productions totaled more equipment of 3.5 million euros in exemptions from payment of fees, spaces and municipal.
The 800 productions took up 15,000 days of filming and filming in Lisbon, there were more budgets spent in the city, more budgets spent in the city, see FC.
The Lisbon Film Commission was created in 2012 by the municipality to monitor that type of production, “from the beginning of its shooting until its premiere at film festivals or in a commercial room”.
According to this structure, 2022 records a growth trend in the number of filming and photo sessions in Lisbon, close to the values prior to the covid-19 pandemic, “with an emphasis on international co-productions”.
The most recent data indicate that in 2021 LFC received 551 orders for productions in the capital, while in 2020 – the year with the greatest impact of the pandemic – there were 423 orders.
In 2019, 71 requests for filming and photo shoots were recorded.
Last year, most of the requests concerned advertising footage, for brands such as Volkswagen, Heineken, McDonald’s, Zara, Hermés, IKEA, Aldi, Iberdrola, Airbnb, among others.
Among the most recent productions shot in Lisbon are a few from the fifth season of the Spanish series “Casa de Papel” (2020), the Indian comedy “Jab Harry Met Sejal” (2017), by Imtiaz Ali, or the film “A promise” (2016), by Terry George, and also the works “Everybody Likes Jeanne” (2022), by Céline Deveaux, and “Heart of Stone”, by Tom Harper, starring Gal Gadot, which will only premiere in 2023.
In Portugal there are at least ten ‘film commissions’, which expedite and facilitate the presence of cinematographic and audiovisual productions, foreign productions, and sometimes they are closely related to regional tourism entities and to ‘regional cultural structures.
Since 2019, there has also been the Portugal Film Commission (PFC), a structure created by the Ministry of Culture “to promote synergies between the creative mission and tourism and to give visibility to Portugal as a film production destination”.
In conjunction with the PFC, the Tourism and Cinema Support Fund (FATC) was also created, with a system of incentives for cinema and audiovisual production and the capture of international footage for Portugal.
This fund will be endowed with 14 million euros in 2023, two million more than this year, according to the proposed State Budget (OE).