Teresa Azcona, a driving pressure behind the construct of the Spain Movie Fee’s emergence as one of many key institutional gamers on Southern Europe’s areas scene, has been named basic supervisor of the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster.
Whereas Barcelona has a thriving new era of auteurist film administrators and producers and a constructing animation scene, Madrid has reaped the most important advantage of Spain’s constructing, decade-long TV increase. Spain’s Mediaset, Atresmedia, Movistar Plus+, The Mediapro Studio, Secuoya Group and Netflix’s European Manufacturing Hub are all positioned in a golden triangle stretching from northern Madrid to satellite tv for pc city Tres Cantos, a 25-minute drive north of the Spanish capital.
In response to Spain’s Nationwide Institute of Statistics, (INE), cited by the Cluster, Madrid represents 32.1% of Spanish audiovisual firms, however 75.9% of its annual revenues of €7.3 billion ($7.8 billion). These stats are for 2020. Each Madrid and Spain’s areas have seen additional growth since then.
After a interval of dramatic development, a rustic must put into place an infrastructure, enabling it to maintain and deepen growth. That appears like one function of the Cluster, launched March 2023 and presided by Secuoya Group president Raul Berdones, whose principal function is to develop an ecosystem which inspires entrepreneurial development, innovation and worldwide collaboration, the Cluster mentioned in a press release.
Simply what means Azcona takes that continues to be to be seen.
“I’m delighted to turn out to be the overall supervisor of the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster, an initiative which constitutes one of many drivers of improvement not just for Madrid however the remainder of Spain,” Azcona mentioned. “I’m excited by its imaginative and prescient of being a key entity able to producing synergies and between the sector’s completely different gamers, driving employment, native expertise and worldwide attain. The board of administrators has carried out nice work in these months. Bringing my expertise, I’ll give attention to contributing to the strategic plans, in addition to creating worth to the Cluster’s companions and the sector,” she added.
The longtime associate and CEO of a danger capital fund, Azcona additionally served as director of pubcaster Aragón TV.