Get the latest gossip
Maltese Filmmakers on Turning Malta From a Hollywood Service Provider Into a Country With Also a Burgeoning Local Industry
Mario Philip Azzopardi, Alex Camilleri, Rebecca Cremona, Martin Bonnici on forging Malta’s film industry, via co-production and passion.
In the last decade, the Maltese film industry has undergone radical development, with a strong focus on seeing the island country evolve from a service provider to Hollywood productions to telling their own stories on screen. Speaking with Variety ahead of the second edition of the Mediterrane Film Festival, Maltese filmmakers have highlighted the importance of fostering local talent, rerouting foreign investment into native productions and strengthening bonds with neighboring countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Cremona is one of the many Maltese film professionals who started their career as a trainee in major international productions, having worked on the set of Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” and Alejandro Amenábar’s “Agora.” She said the experience helped her “in exposing me to a way of filmmaking that is extremely rigorous and high-end within mainstream Hollywood, but also in terms of people I got to know.
Or read this on Variety
