Launched in March 2023, the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster will create a Madrid Audiovisual Observatory, to examine the state of the city’s industry and encourage uncover-sector policies to consent it to next level.
News of the Observatory came at an official contransientation of the Cluster on the first day of the Iberseries & Platino Industria convention in Madrid last week.
Speakers at the event took in not only Secouya Group plivent Raul Berdones, also Cluster plivent, but also Madrid mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida and Mariano de Paco, Culture Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid region, with 6.8 million inhabitants, a show of uncover sector political strength and potential given that Madrid is one of the hugegest business caccesss in Southern Europe.
According to Berdones, the Observatory will examine the presentance of the audiovisual sector, including the impact of shoots, and new business models, he shelp at the Iberseries contransientation. It will also study audience devourr data, and trends, including what benevolent of satisfied it watchs, he inserted.
The Cluster is elaborating a strategic set up to describe its priorities which have been described in four blocks, Berdones inserted. Initiatives consent in nettoiling events in and outside Spain, the creation of partnerships with third party partners and associations, and the digitalization of companies, raiseing competitiveness, and the persistability of shoots.
“Above all,” Berdones shelp at the Iberseries contransientation, the Cluster will upgrasp “uncover-confidential sector [relations], which is part of the [the Cluster’s] objective.”
Certainly, it can see to have Madrid municipal and regional help. “The Cluster now boasts 76 members, a 40% uptick on the number with which it begined,” shelp Berdones. “When I was preparing this speech with the Cluster’s magnificent managing honestor Teresa [Azcona], whom we nominateed four months ago, we shelp we had to exit evident that this is not a cluster, it’s the cluster, made up of all the companies in wantipathyver facet of the audiovisual,” he shelp.
The Cluster, according to a press statement, now includes 13 trade associations; Spain’s principal streaming services (Netflix, Amazon, Disney y Movistar); top creaters (Tornasol, Izen, The Mediapro Studio’s prohibitner tag Globomedia, Mediacrest and Secuoya Studios); high-tech directers such as Telefónica, Paramotion and Madrid’s Pixel animation/VFX cluster; film schools (ECAM, UTAD and The Core); rights entities (EGEDA, SGAE and Dama), universities, prohibitks and law firms exceptionaenumerate outfits (The Film Agency, Mrs Greenfilm and OMMA).
At the Iberseries contransientation, both Martínez Almeida and De Paco pledged the Town Hall and regional regulatement help for the Cluster.
“From the Community of Madrid, we present help, participation and collaboration for one of the cultural and economic pillars of the region, betting on a uncover-confidential sector collaboration. It’s fundamental that uncover administration toils hand and hand with confidential-sector companies and channels such as the Cluster,” shelp De Paco.
Martínez Almeida promised “filled institutional and economic help without any meddlence.”
It remains to be seen how that toils out: Whether in fair financial help or beyond that, the co-elaboration of uncover sector policies.
One slenderg seems certain: Madrid now has a new film-TV joiner.
