In 2007 alone, 47 movies were filmed in Barcelona showing the trend of increasing moviemaking in the city. Julia Goytisolo, the Director of Catalonia Film Commission, says: Barcelona is in the imagination of producers.´´ The municipality of Barcelona (Ajuntament de Barcelona) is well aware of the potential advertisement and introduction this brings for the city and wants to increase benefits by supporting the producers as they did for the Vicky Cristina Barcelona case.
One other way is to select the best movies filmed and build a path of 12 or more scenes that the movies were filmed for tourists to visit. So far, 4 movies have been selected as: All About My Mother, Mad House, Perfume and The Manual of Love 2. The paths of the movie sets has been selected by Barcelona Tourism (www.barcelonaturisme.com)
For the worldwide famous movie of Perfume (based on the book, Perfume, by Patrick Suskind), the production team scouted eight different countries in Europe looking for the best place to represent eighteenth century Paris before settling on Barcelona.
The Fish Market scenes were shot in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. 2.5 ton of fish and 1 ton of meat was used over the course of the shoot, and people as far away as 6 miles reported a bad smell in the air. The unforgettable execution scene of Grenouille was filmed in Montjuic part of Barcelona.
Also, The MOFILM 2009 , Mobile Movie Awards, was held in Barcelona this year in the GSM Congress, which took place between 16-19 of February. It was hosted by Kevin Spacey and the Grand Prize was given to ´´English as a Second Language´´. You can register and download a mofilm using the link.
All in all, Barcelona offers a great ambient for filmmakers with its incentives, nice sceneries, arts, and a variety of other advantages. With right scenarios and a cast that suits to the movie, Barcelona offers the chance to film classics with the name Barcelona in it as in Vicky Cristina Barcelona to make the movie a brand and Barcelona another.
