The project is designed to improve business skills in Puerto Rico’s cultural sector. #NewsismyBusiness
The 20,000-square-foot AAMS facility boasts the “largest green screen in the Caribbean” and a helipad to attract big productions. #NewsIsMyBusiness
“Season of the Witches,” a psychological thriller produced and directed by an all-women team of film industry professionals, will be rolled entirely in Puerto Rico this summer, this media outlet confirmed. The project has a “micro budget” of less than $3 million, which will go toward hiring a local crew of producers and actors, and […]
Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Laboy and Puerto Rico Film Commissioner Pedro Rúa-Jovet discuss the status of Puerto Rico's film industry, and what lies ahead for 2019 and beyond.
Puerto Rico is one of several Latin American countries that can participate in the FACIUNI Scholarship competition.
Travel industry veteran Keith St. Clair on July 2 will announce plans to develop a $65 million film production studio complex at the Puerto Rico Convention Center District, this media outlet learned.
About a dozen film projects for the big screen and streaming services slated to roll in Puerto Rico through August are projected to inject close to $65 million into the local economy, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced.
Puerto Rico will set the stage for yet another Hollywood film production, “Primal” starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced.
Puerto Rico’s film industry is set to generate $225 million for the island’s economy this fiscal year ending in June, with several television and film projects in the pipeline that will generate some 12,000 jobs, government officials said Sunday.
With the goal of offering children in communities affected by María some fun that also serves to practice school subjects that have been suspended, DIRECTV Puerto Rico developed a special project aimed at this population, called “Escuelas+”
More U.S. and foreign filming producers are shooting in Puerto Rico as a result of the incentives package and other benefits provided by the Commonwealth, as in the case of Crackle, Sony’s multi-platform entertainment network, which last week finished the second season of its original series, “Cleaners,” according to Demetrio Fernández, executive director of the Puerto Rico Film Commission.
For the next two weeks, parts of San Juan will become the backdrop for the filming of “22 Jump Street,” a Hollywood production that is expected to pump $9 million into the Puerto Rican economy.
Looking to boost the island’s film industry, the Puerto Rico Film Commission announced the start of this year’s funding cycle for fiction feature films, which runs from today through Sept. 26.
The Puerto Rico government is making even more tax breaks available to draw filmmakers to the island, which in the last three years has become a magnet for big-budget Hollywood and television productions.
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