EPP Vallywood Studios…!
Dragon studios known as Valley Wood, is £330m pound project to construct a film studio which can be found at Llanilid, Rhondda Cynon Taf. The complex will create more than 1,700 jobs. Oscar-winning “Lord Attenborough” (the old guy from Jurassic park) is the chairman of the project.
I have listed some quotes from the articles I found, for quick reference:
Lord Attenborough
“The first phase of five studios for making TV drama had been brought forward due to demand from the industry and the largest studios, capable of film-making will be built as the scheme develops. This will mean that we are able to offer a whole range of further facilities to house television production, international feature films and multimedia businesses by the spring of 2007," he said.”
The Developer of the project, Stuart Villard,
"I would like to emphasise that this facility, to be known as Dragon Plus, represents just the initial phase of a far larger major film studio development at Llanilid,"
RCT leader Mr Roberts said.
"This is one of the largest inward investment projects in Europe and we can all be proud that this scheme is being created here in Rhondda Cynon Taf,"
Welsh Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies
Said the studios would become "a major economic catalyst for the area".
The money has come from Objective one funding that is provided by the Welsh Assembly Government.
Lord Attenborough
"People will come here because, apart from anything else, there is a great move to take production out of London, out of the metropolis. And they are going to Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, why not here to Cardiff? I think when these studios are built, the work will come.”
Its interesting to see such an advancement in the area of new media being brought forward into the area of Wales, personally from the above I believe there to be a very good reason for this to exist, I believe the reason is most likely to be related to production expenses. I did notice the term “multimedia businesses” used above which is mainly the reason I have researched Valley Wood Studios. Valley Wood could be a very good source to get direct contact to industry.
Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4697485.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4700143.stm
I have listed some quotes from the articles I found, for quick reference:
Lord Attenborough
“The first phase of five studios for making TV drama had been brought forward due to demand from the industry and the largest studios, capable of film-making will be built as the scheme develops. This will mean that we are able to offer a whole range of further facilities to house television production, international feature films and multimedia businesses by the spring of 2007," he said.”
The Developer of the project, Stuart Villard,
"I would like to emphasise that this facility, to be known as Dragon Plus, represents just the initial phase of a far larger major film studio development at Llanilid,"
RCT leader Mr Roberts said.
"This is one of the largest inward investment projects in Europe and we can all be proud that this scheme is being created here in Rhondda Cynon Taf,"
Welsh Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies
Said the studios would become "a major economic catalyst for the area".
The money has come from Objective one funding that is provided by the Welsh Assembly Government.
Lord Attenborough
"People will come here because, apart from anything else, there is a great move to take production out of London, out of the metropolis. And they are going to Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, why not here to Cardiff? I think when these studios are built, the work will come.”
Its interesting to see such an advancement in the area of new media being brought forward into the area of Wales, personally from the above I believe there to be a very good reason for this to exist, I believe the reason is most likely to be related to production expenses. I did notice the term “multimedia businesses” used above which is mainly the reason I have researched Valley Wood Studios. Valley Wood could be a very good source to get direct contact to industry.
Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4697485.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4700143.stm
posted by John Robinson at 9:46 pm
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