Production Paradise

Welcome to the June edition of Production Paradise's SHOWCASE Barcelona.

Here, Sonar, the International Festival of Advanced Music & Multimedia Art, is about to start, and the city is filling up with visitors for this highly popular 3 day/3 night event. Now in its 13th year, Sonar will include more than 300 activities including DJ sets, concerts, Sonar Cinema, works in every multimedia format, installations, Net art, design and more. Runs 15-17 June, more info at www.sonar.es.

Don't forget to visit www.productionparadise.com for a comprehensive directory of Barcelona's best visual media talent.

Our cover was shot by Jaume de Laiguana for La Vanguardia Magazine.

bcn photography/photographers: JOSE MANUEL FERRATER

Recent news from Ferrater:

• He featured in a recent swimwear editorial in Cape Town.
• He shot the Cortefiel Spring and Summer international campaign with top models Helena Christensen, Petra Moncova and Enrique Palacios.
• And coming soon are his new campaigns for Lois, Andrés Sarda, Revlon, Lacoste and Carolina Herrera.

bcn photography/photographers: FRIEDEL SCHOLTEN (WORKSTATION)

News from Friedel Scholten:

• International campaign for Aigner, photographed by Friedel. Creative director was Luis Blanc, and make-up artist was Dani Rull.
• The new campaign for Icedrops Men/Women from Aigner Black.
• Friedel also shot the new pack for Damm Lemon.

bcn photography/photographers: ÁLVARO BUJONS

Among celebrities photographed recently by Alvaro Bujons is Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, the Duchess of Alba's son, at his Ampurdán home - for Telva magazine.

He also photographed actresses Lola Herrera and her daughter Natalia Dicenta, whose portraits were taken for HOLA! magazine at several locations in Barcelona's trendy Borne district.

His CD portfolio with a wide range of celebrity portraits and advertising campaign pictures is available, please email alvaro@alvarobujons.net.

bcn photography/photographers: DAVID RUIZ

Important news from David Ruiz is his inclusion in the SOL DE ORO Award for direct marketing campaign "Astronauta" in collaboration with "Marketing Com" agency.

David's Danone Street campaign is currently all over Barcelona city.

He also shot a portrait of Dj Undo to coincide with the launch of his new album 'Despacio'.

bcn photography/photographers: NINO GEHRIG

Nino recently shot some advertising campaigns, working together with the agency SCPF, for clients including Ajuntamento Barcelona (Batega), Sol Festival, Damm Bier, FAT /Terminal B and JB.

He also did a new children's fashion editorial for La Vanguardia Magazine with kids from Group. Maria Fuertes did styling and Carolina Guzmán did make-up.

For Sposabella, Nino shot a jewellery editorial.

bcn photography/rental studios: ENTIJUANA STUDIO

Entijuana studio presents his new rental service with digital and lighting equipment available.

Robert Penkwitt recently shot the new catalogue for Wenz.

Also, Simsan Photo chose Entijuana studio to produce the new Kit-Kat campaign.

Rafa Gallar shot Mango's new fragance.

bcn production/commercial production: DOLCE VITA PRODUCTIONS S.L

It's been another busy spring for Dolce Vita:

In Argentina and Uruguay: Nike running with Hendrik Nenneke, Peter Hahn with Sabine Liewald and Torsten Ruppert (in cooperation with Gudrun Hahmann), Quelle (MBS) with Sandra Lachner, Dieter Fieres and Gerry Witting.

In Spain: And Mackays with Richard Truscott in Seville, Economia with Sandra Weimar in Mallorca, COO with Thomas Kilter in Canary Islands, Mitsubishi with Florian Geiss in Malaga, Woman with Chon Choi in Barcelona, 120 Percento with Axel Hoedt in Barcelona, and Karstadt with Christoph Martin in Barcelona.

Seems they have an equally busy summer lined up too - we'll keep you posted...

bcn production/commercial production: FIRST SERVICE FACTORY S.L

First Factory Commercials:

- First Factory Commercials have just produced a Coca Cola Light ad for the German market, now on-air. Jamie Lane was director. Agency was Strawberry Frog, Amsterdam. Location was Badalona. Casting was done in London. Postproduction was by Molinare Barcelona.

First Factory photographers:

- Fashion and VIP photographer Francesc Vilallonga has done a campaign for Seyart Jewels with top model Monica Cruz. He also just finished a campaign for Byly for Publicis Barcelona, and is currently busy again with editorials for Woman.

- Nacho Juarez has shot his third campaign for Caixa Catalunya with the new corporate image.

- Oscar van de Beek is currently shooting a Skoda campaign in South Africa.

- new photographer duo, Winkler and Noah from Rome, specialise in portraits, still life and car photography with their own particular style.

They are currently looking for freelance staff: photographer assistants, production managers, with experience in photography and languages. Also illustrators.

bcn production/commercial production: CONTRA SERVICE PRODUCTIONS, S.L.

Recent news from Contra:

Palma: See the final shots from the first shoot for ODLO with photographer Holger Pooten. Contra also organised the follow up production.

Palma: Contra produced a shoot for the German DEAF Industry. Photographer Stefan Pielow, Agency was Springer & Jacoby.

Dresden/Nuremberg/Berlin: Photoproduction and Filmproduction for McCann Erickson SF/USA, client was Microsoft. See the finals from Christoph Morlinghaus.

Barcelona: An automotive production with Thomas von Salomon for Toyota. Agency was Change.

bcn production/photo production: ENTIJUANA PRODUCTIONS

bcn production/commercial production: TEAM WORKS PRODUCTION

Shot in December 2005 in a stadium in Madrid, Santander Banespa featured six of Brazil's world-famous football players.

Steering clear of the stereotypes of football endorsement, it is a refreshingly playful and unselfconscious portrait of Latin America’s love of football and its heroes. It takes pains to emphasis the beauty of the game and the charisma of the players.

Everything about this spot is epic, from the talent featured to the scale of production. By mounting one of Brazil’s largest campaigns to date, they hope to create for themselves an equally epic brand identity in Brazil.

bcn photography/equipment rent: MEDIA PRO GRUP

'Salvador' was included in the recent 59th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival under the main showcase section, "Un Certain Regard".

The film was produced by MEDIAPRO, and d irected by Manuel Huerga. The lead role is played by Daniel Brühl who embodies Salvador Puig Antich. Alongside him, played a cast of 85 actors including prestigious names such as Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Leonor Watling and Ingrid Rubio.

'Salvador' tells the story of Puig Antich, a young activist who was gruesomely garotted in 1974, having been condemned by a fading dictatorship.

bcn talent/model agencies: FRANCINA AGENCY

• Coralie Essertier worked with Toni Bernad on an editorial for Telva, shot in Panama, as well as working with José Manuel Ferrater on the Andrés Sardà campaign.
• Belén, Andrea Vigorós, María Vives, Cristina Guillén, Natalia Beber, Eulalie and Katell were all in the L’Oreal fashion show with Tono Sanmartín.
• Marta Español has been working wit Pascal Chevalier for a Nina Ricci editorial in Elle France. She was the face for the French Kerastase campaign with photographer Sofía Roca, and for the Naf-Naf campaign in France with Eric Beckmann.
• Marta Arias was the face for a recent Nivea ad.
• Elodie posed for Tony Nelly in a beauty editorial for Woman.
• Erick Fuhrmann worked with Outumuro for El País.
• Ferran Calderón worked with XXL for the press launch of Breil watches.

bcn talent/model agencies: GROUP MODEL MANAGEMENT

Martina Klein recently shot the new Suarez jewellery campaign, photographed by Nico.

bcn hotel/apartments: RENT CITY APARTMENTS S. L.

Rent City Apartments invite you to enjoy Barcelona's beautiful seafront and the best this cosmopolitan city has to offer at their enormous, sun-filled Diagonal Mar apartment.

Within this brand new 175 m2 apartment, e very room overlooks the city and the sea . And every room has access to the 120 m2  private terrace.

The building is located within a large park on the city beach, and the flat has been described as "exclusive", "one-of-a-kind", "stylish" and "truly luxurious".

Rent City Apartments offer a high quality, adaptable service and they specialise in meeting the needs of production crews. They offer special rates and services for Photo, Film, and Commercial production crews.

You can contact them on +34 932 955 916 or at booking@rentcityapartments.com

bcn film/film post production: PETER SCHWALM

A new album, M U S I K A I N - conceived and recorded in Barcelona - has been released by J. Peter Schwalm.

Brian Eno says, 'Sometimes you hear something and think: "Now this is how the modern world feels to me". Peter's music is like that, capturing excitement and speed and ambiguity and even wistfulness and melancholy... a complex emotional palette which feels to me like real life.'

“I wanted to have a fresh approach to voices,” says Schwalm, describing the concept for the album, “as well as a balance between instrumental and vocal pieces. The songs were intended to produce the effect of a short film on the audience”.

For implementation, the composer and percussionist found and invited outstanding young musicians in London and in his own neighbourhood in Barcelona.