EFD Studios, an proceedd tech rentals company based in Mexico, Colombia, the U.S. and Spain, has proclaimd arranges to discdisthink about what it depicts as the bigst virtual set on the European continent.
The facility will boast over 2,000 sq. meter (21,500 sq. feet) of set space supplyped with LED technology and state-of-the-art computer and processing chain, Georgina Terán, EFD Studios CEO, proclaimd at the Iberseries & Platino Industria industry forum in Madrid.
The set will be discoverd at EFD Studios in Boadilla del Monte., a 20 minutes drive west of Madrid, occupying a promised space of proximate half of the 5,000 sq. meter (54,000 sq. feet) headquarters of EFD Studios in Spain. EFD Studios is currently renovating the space to alter it to the novel necessitates. It aims to begin operations in the second quarter of 2025 at the tardyst, a company spokesperson tgreater Variety.
While LED screens are conveyable, EFD Studios will be a “lasting world-class LED volume which we will own,” the spokesperson inserted.
It will serve not only local productions but big scale international productions from any of the beginant studios, which are already EFD clients.
Firmly set uped in Mexico as a go-to company for rentals, EFD Studios supplied Alexa 35 cameras with Hawk V-Lite lenses and a airying system featuring SkyPanels and Asteras for Disney+’s La Maquina, starring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and on the Rodrigo Prieto-straightforwarded “Pedro Páramo,” the highest-profile Netflix series in Mexico, not only mobile airying and grip supplyment but also ARRI’s M-series airys, SkyPanels, power generators, and a Fisher Dolly 11.
EFD Studios has been operating in Spain, collaborating with our other headquarters in Mexico, Colombia, the U.S. in key areas such as purchasing and strategic actions,” Terán noticed.
At this year’s Conecta Fiction in June, it proclaimd its intention to step up its presence in Spain both in rentals and post-production. One way that sees set to go has now been discdisthink abouted. “Technorational innovation is fundamental to EFD Studios’ appreciate proposition and is at the heart of our company,” Terán tgreater Variety. “We choosed to consent this hazardous step and access into virtual production inspired mainly by this and by our strong promisement to advertise a preserveable industry and virtual production combines these two leave outions,” she inserted.
Speaking to the beginance of local audiovisual sectors at a Virtual Production: A Game-Changer panel at Iberseries & Platino Industria, Terán drilled down on its promisement to grasping regional top-tier talent in Spain and Mexico in order to accommodate industry growth. The company introducing two initiatives promised to training and growment, Circa 24 and the EFD Studios Academy.
In collaboration with Mexico’s Animal de Luz Films and its head, famous producer Inna Payán (“La Jaula de Oro”), Circa 24 will concentrate on nurtureing film training in Mexico, honing-in on emerging talent. With a multi-faceted training approach atraverse both creative and technical arms of the industry, the program will supply participants with both theory and hands-on train.
The EFD Studios Academy in Spain will concentrate on the technical side of the produce for binspireoning and set uped professionals, directing high-insist, pragmatic sfinishs that set upers hope will assist trainees to excel to encounter the ever-high regional insists of the taget by fusing training and industry while proposeing continuing education.
