The government releases 22.5 million euros to make Marseille the “cinema capital” of the Mediterranean
After Paris, Marseille is the most filmed city in France. Emmanuel Macron and Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak want to further accentuate the trend.
The State and the communities unveiled on Monday the outlines of the cinema component of the “Marseille en grand” plan wanted by Emmanuel Macron with the ambition to make the second city of France “the cinema capital of the Mediterranean“.
“The idea is to make Marseille the Mediterranean capital of cinema and filming“, launched the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak during the signing of a protocol between the State, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (Paca) region, the city and the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis. Initially, four projects will be promoted and financed to the tune of 22.5 million euros by the State.
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First of all, the creation of a logistical base for filming, an urgent need in Marseille, which – with 1,200 days of filming per year, is the most filmed city in France after Paris. The plan also provides for the creation of a branch of the Cinémathèque Française in Marseille, the modernization of the Belle-de-Mai Media Center and the creation of a branch of CinéFabrique, a film school created in Lyon, very professional and who found social diversity at the heart of his project.
By spring, projects for new filming and training infrastructures will be selected and financed in order to strengthen the network in a territory that has just said goodbye to an institution, series More beautiful life.
In addition, by 2027, the region aims to create a city of cinema bringing together the CinéFabrique and the branch of the cinematheque on the Dock des Suds site. In Marseille, “the light, the natural settings, the people (…), everything is obvious“provoked the left-wing mayor Benoit Payan who, like the other local elected officials, did not lack superlatives to call on the government for the attention it pays to France’s second city through its “Marseille en grand” plan, which wishes to stitch up the big city the poorest in France in all respects, from schools to transport and culture.
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