A Coruña, February 14, 2025.- The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, made an official visit to A Coruña on Friday, where he participated in the inauguration of the Coruña Estudio Immersive project, a 750 m² virtual production set with state-of-the-art technology and 1,200 m² of additional facilities. The project receives funding of EUR 5 million from the Government of Spain through Red.es, within the framework of the programme “Aid for the creation or improvement of digital ecosystems in the audiovisual sector”, with a total of EUR 24.8 million and which has already supported other facilities in Gran Canaria, Madrid, Murcia and Barcelona.
The set, which can be used by both the audiovisual and video game sectors, allows scenes to be recorded in front of high-resolution LED screens in which the highest quality and sharpness of backgrounds are generated. These facilities are located in Cidade das TIC, a strategic space supported by all administrations that promotes the specialization of Galicia in emerging technologies, a location that allows to offer different services of production, creation and digital postproduction and that favors the arrival of national and international productions being a few minutes from both the city center and the airport.
Employment in the audiovisual sector grows by 93%
In his speech during the opening of the set, the minister pointed out that initiatives such as this “symbolize the industrial revolution that Coruña, Galicia and Spain are experiencing. Today we are the economic locomotive of the OECD and the European Union.”
López highlighted how employment in the sector has grown by 93% in the last three years; and how Spain has gone from producing 45 series a year in 2018 to 95 in 2022. At present, Spain occupies the fourth position in the production of films and television series in Europe. In addition, in recent years it has attracted more than 165 international productions, which have generated a return of nine euros for each euro invested and have allowed to create or maintain about 7,000 jobs a year, according to a report by the Spain Film Commission.
The minister stressed the importance of the Spain Hub Audiovisual Plan in achieving these figures, “an emblematic bet of the Government of Spain that began with European funds and that we want to maintain”. In this sense, López has emphasized that after the success of the first phase of this program, endowed with 1,600 million euros, the support continues “with a second phase of the Spain Hub Audiovisual Plan, managed by SETT and endowed with 1,712 million euros for financial instruments demanded by the sector”.
“The Spanish audiovisual industry is going through a brilliant moment; let’s continue working to make it so, with the support of the institutions, collaborating with the business fabric and betting on the enormous technical and creative talent that our country is overflowing”, concluded López.