With 1200 days of filming per year, Marseilles is the most filmed city in France after Paris.The State and the communities unveiled on Monday the outlines of the cinema component of the "Marseille en grand" plan wanted by Emmanuel Macron with the ambition of making the second city of France "the capital of cinema in the Mediterranean". "The idea is to make Marseille the Mediterranean capital of cinema and filming", launched the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak during the signing of a protocol between the State, the Provence-Alpes- Côte d'Azur (Paca), the city and the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis. Initially, four projects will be promoted and financed to the tune of 22.5 million euros by the.The most filmed city in France after Paris First of all, the creation of a logistical base for filming, an urgent need in Marseille, which - with 1,200 days of filming per year, is the most filmed city in France after Paris. The plan also provides for the creation of a branch of the Cinémathèque Française in Marseille, the modernization of the Belle-de-Mai Media Center and the creation of a branch of CinéFabrique, a film school created in Lyon, very professional and which puts social diversity at the heart of its project. Between now and spring, projects for new filming and training infrastructures will be selected and financed in order to strengthen the network in a territory that has just said goodbye to an institution, the "Plus belle la vie" series. In addition, by 2027, the region aims to create a city of cinema bringing together the CineFabrique and the branch of the cinematheque on the Dock des Suds site.
In Marseilles, "the light, the natural scenery, the people (...), everything is obvious", estimated the left-wing mayor Benoît Payan who, like the other local elected officials, did not lack superlatives to thank the government for the attention it pays to France's second largest city through its "Marseille en grand" plan, which aims to stitch together the poorest large city in France on all fronts, from schools to transport and culture.