“Cualquier proyecto es una ventana de promoción para la ciudad de Madrid y nosotros lo consideramos como tal”. Una entrevista a Raúl Torquemada y Víctor Aertsen de la Madrid Film Office

Abstract

The interview with the director and the head of communications of the Madrid Film Office takes into account the unique position of the city of Madrid within the Spanish film industry: as a city with three film offices (the city’s, the Autonomous Community’s and the Spain’s) as well as numerous state and private institutions linked to the history, present and future of Spanish cinema. Madrid is also the headquarters of major interna­tional production companies and by far the Spanish city where most films, series and other audiovisual products are shot. The task of the city’s Film Office is to promote the filming of new productions and to publicise new locations in Madrid, to connect them with the different institutions and to strengthen Madrid’s reputation as a film city.