Lloret Turisme, through the Lloret Film Office, the department responsible for advising and managing film shoots in Lloret de Mar, is at the Shooting Locations Marketplace in Valladolid yesterday and today, where it is meeting with various national and international location scouts and producers to promote the destination’s potential for the audiovisual sector. The meeting is in the format of a workshop with individual interviews, which, in the words of the manager of Lloret Turisme, Elizabeth Keegan: “It allows us to offer a more personalised service to such a target audience as location scouts and producers, key players in attracting film shoots. Lloret de Mar’s strengths as a filming destination include the fact that we are one of the closest towns on the Costa Brava to Barcelona, with unique beaches and coves, a very interesting and attractive hotel and service infrastructure, and professional management for over 17 years through the Lloret Film Office”.
Some of the localisers and producers interviewed are: Scott Trimble, American director and localiser for projects such as Star Trek, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Iron Man 2, and who has won awards for his work on films such as Transformers and Mission Impossible 3; Mika Sito, American production manager for Tenet and Red Alert; Jasmina Torbati, American production manager for All Quiet on the Western Front and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi; or with the also American localiser Andrea Keener, who has worked for various Disney productions. In addition, the Lloret Film Office also had the opportunity to meet with Catalan localisers and production assistants who already know the destination and its potential well and who play a key role when these productions arrive in the region, as well as with localisers from Madrid with whom it was able to establish new synergies.
This action by the Lloret Film Office coincides with the recent Comic Con Costa Brava, a themed convention with actors and actresses, cosplayers and technology and merchandising companies related to the series Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, Stranger Things and Stars Wars, which was held this past weekend in Lloret de Mar and was attended by some 1,500 people. The driving force and organiser of this event is Alec Utgoff, an actor known for his role as Alexei in Stranger Things, who lives in Lloret de Mar.
In addition, this summer Lloret also premiered the first themed tour inspired by the filming of the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, in the Santa Clotilde Gardens, which sold out in July and August.
The Lloret Film Office was founded in 2006 and is a member of the Catalunya Film Commission. Every year it hosts around forty audiovisual productions, including series shoots, film scenes and photo shoots, including Uncharted (2020), House of the Dragon (2021) and Mrs. Davis (2022). This autumn it was scheduled to host a large-scale shoot again, in this case for a series for the Apple TV platform, but scriptwriters’ strikes in the USA have put it on hold until further notice.
