A new film-TV territory is emerging in Europe: Euroregion NAEN, taking in Nouvelle Aquitaine in France and the Basque Country and Navarre in Spain., Europe’s biggest dedicated TV co-production forum with Latin America.
These are Euroregion NAEN’s first film-TV prizes. “This is fruit of the joint work of the personnel who manage the audiovisual sector in the three regions and the Euroregion office,” says Ana Herrera Isasi, head of Navarre’s Strategic Digital and Audiovisual Projects Department. To date, since after Navarre’s renewed membership, the Euroregion has mainly plowed seed money into the sector.
Urdangarín cites “Ainarak” , directed by Juan San Martín and starring singer-songwriter Anne Etchegoyen, which wrapped its shoot this June. Euroregional link-ups are still in their infancy: Bordeaux’s France 3 has yet to produce with EiTB for example. But it does look like Euroregion aid will grow.