Is there enough work in Spain (& Europe)?

[Luke Saagi]

Hey all, 

My wife and I have been back and forth on a huge life decision to move from Canada to somewhere in Europe. We are thinking Spain (somewhere near Barcelona) but I have no connects in Europe so I have no sense of how busy it is over there. I’m looking to get some insight from a few of you to give me a sense in there’s enough steadicam / traditional operating work over there. 
 

and insight from y’all will help! 
 

thanks 

[Jesse Mar-Ramirez]

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[Matias Mesa]

It very crowded. Very competitive market and hard to get jobs. that is all I can tell you.

[Norwin Hatschbach]

europe is kinda fucked atm.

[Thomas English]

Not as competitive and oversupplied as London. I've DoP'd a few times in Spain and the good guys are always double booked and the newer intake seem far busier than London. 

I will say that my interpretation of Spain is there is a larger portion of service work than London so service production companies and producers are more valuable to chase as the low hanging fruit than directors and DoPs . 

Good Luck

[Luke Saagi]

On 11/2/2024 at 2:44 PM, Norwin Hatschbach said:

europe is kinda fucked atm.

Economic and socially or are you specifically saying for the film industry in Europe? 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Luke Saagi

[Luke Saagi]

On 6/25/2024 at 6:36 AM, Matias Mesa said:

It very crowded. Very competitive market and hard to get jobs. that is all I can tell you.

Thank you so much for getting back to me. I see, that seems to be the case in most areas where film making is prevalent 

[Luke Saagi]

On 11/7/2024 at 2:11 AM, Thomas English said:

Not as competitive and oversupplied as London. I've DoP'd a few times in Spain and the good guys are always double booked and the newer intake seem far busier than London. 

I will say that my interpretation of Spain is there is a larger portion of service work than London so service production companies and producers are more valuable to chase as the low hanging fruit than directors and DoPs . 

Good Luck

Thank you for getting back to me. Much appreciated 

[Norwin Hatschbach]

On 12/15/2024 at 7:34 PM, Luke Saagi said:

Economic and socially or are you specifically saying for the film industry in Europe? 

well at least germany is,we lost like 70-80% of production volume in the last 2-3 years to service productions abroad, mostly eastern europe and atm austria, which will collapse as soon as they update their funding rules