Visit Benidorm Foundation is present this week and for the first time, at Berlin International Film Festival, also known as "Berlinale" which takes place between February 15 and 25.
Visit Benidorm participates in a parallel fair to the Berlinale, called European Film Market, for the audiovisual sector and meeting point of the film commissions of each country and region with professionals from this industry.
Benidorm has taken the opportunity in this fair to visit stands from other destinations with extensive experience in this world to learn in depth its form of permit management and promotion of its spaces.
Attend fairs and events of this kind, it has become the new objective of the Benidorm Film office and Visit Benidorm, in order to promote the city as a shooting destination and to strengthen relations and develop a national strategy with the Film offices network of the Spain Film Commission.
In this way Benidorm reaffirms its commitment to the promotion of the city as an ideal destination for recordings. The data is very positive, only in 2017, Benidorm hosted a total of 95 audiovisual productions among films, series, advertisements, video clips or photo reports for magazines or brands, both national and international.
These data indicate that Benidorm has more and more pull among producers, since in just one year the number of shootings grew by 16%. In total, the city chained 350 days of recording; that is, there were only 15 days in 2017 in which a camera or a set could not be seen in any street.