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Uruguay Emerges as International Shoot Hub
Uruguay's film and TV industries thrive, hosting major international shoots and co-productions, bolstered by incentives and a skilled talent pool.
The country also saw Bill Condon shoot the prison scenes of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and Brazil’s “Senna,” using Montevideo’s airport to create a racetrack. Most spectacularly as all Montevideo-based Cimarrón, now a pan-Latin American company owned by The Mediapro Studio, provided services on “The Society of the Snow,” from J.A.Bayona, helping him to shoot the exact mountain backgrounds in the Valle de Lágrimas where the crash took place, and renovate Montevideo’s old Carrasco Airport, now in disuse, for early scenes. With health and security protocols quickly put into place, Cimarrón’s first production service, Prime Video’s “Manhãs de Setembro,” kicked off that same month.
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