Paris Region Film Commissioner Confirms Four New Studios to Be Built
variety.comBen Croll Speaking at a panel organized by Paris Images Online, Hélène Dudragne, film commissioner at Film Paris Region, confirmed that four new studios are to be built in Paris and the surrounding area.
The announcement came on the heels of a round-table – and weeklong industry gathering – where all too many conversations circled back to the same point: That in order to ensure a continued boom in international production, the country needs new studios, and needs them fast.Shortly after the first lockdowns hit in March 2020, the local industry was able to stabilize rather quickly production output by instituting a rigorous set of safety protocols, earmarking €100 million in insurance funds via private and public backers, and introducing a measure called the “talent passport,” which allowed international citizens to travel back and forth to France with the same ease and requirements as a local.
Upon arrival in France, many of those passport holders would join a closed set, living and working in a bubble. Because of the (then-ongoing) lockdowns, these bubbles would pop up in places that had been usually off-limits pre-pandemic to productions of a certain scale. “We had the Grand Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat completely for ourselves,” said “Emily in Paris” production designer Anne Seibel. “We used it for locations and we stayed there.
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