Locations in Seville

by Fi_Francombe on 05-Nov-09 12:05

Hola from Seville!

I'm here on a fact-finding mission on behalf of (and subsidised by) the UK Film Council's national and regional screen agencies.  SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS EXPO (SILE); is the first major location trade fair in Europe, and this is its first year.
SWScreen attended a similar event in Berlin in 2008 which was part of the Berlin Film Festival; badly publicised and marketed and consequently very poorly attended. This time all the screen agencies felt it better to send one person over to check it out and report back. Individual agencies and the UKFC themselves can then decide whether to attend in future or not. The Guild of Location Managers have taken an exhibition stand at SILE and as I'm still a member, it gives me a base to work from while here.
SILE is set in a marquee in the Prado de San Sebastian; also the setting for the main Film Festival which starts tomorrow.

There are about 40 stands - some with a greater impact than others - including Abu Dhabi, Namibia, Mexico and quite a few from the Spanish regions. It's the first morning and still quite quiet; perhaps when the main festival starts tomorrow it'll get busier. This year's Film Festival theme is British films (perhaps that's why Harriet Walter was on the flight over yesterday?) so there may be some British talent turning up tomorrow.

I'll use the rest of the day to get my bearings, work out which seminars to attend, get to chat to other exhibitors, etc. I also have to move hotel rooms as I discovered when I woke up this morning (having arrived in the dark) that I am at the farthest corner of the hotel, with no natural daylight and a soil stack outside my window which started to smell quite ripe as people got up this morning!

I'll let you know how I get on.

Tagged:Fiona Francombe, Seville, SILE, locations, exhibition

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