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Tenerife offers an extraordinary variety of landscapes to shoot at 23℃ all year round, including a huge unexpected architectural and cultural richness, from villas, colonial houses, luxury apartments, houses with sea views, open spaces, castles, historic palaces, restaurants with the latest decoration or dream gardens.

Locationow is a marketplace that connects production companies with locations to create movies, ads and branded content. Locationow loves the production and makes it easy. The producers can search for locations using this platform, filtering by features, availability and regions.

Tenerife island is one of the favourite locations from Locationow.

In addition to the public catalogue of spaces, it offers a personalised scouting service and production support based on the needs of the production company.

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The vibrant versatility of the landscapes of the island of Tenerife shines in the latest commercials released.

The spectacular and iconic perfume advert 'Imagination' by Louis Vuitton, directed by Simon Schmitt, takes place on the wildest coast of the island with its black lava. This production by Iconoclast and Azul with the production service of Volcano Films had a challenge: to set up a mirror platform on the beach of Las Gaviotas. In addition, it was shot in the traditional way, in 35mm photochemical with the use of 2 ARRI 435 and 1 ARRI 235 cameras.

Meanwhile, the 'Head meets heart' spot for the VolkswagenID.4 GTX electric car with the production service of Sur Film shows the great versatility of the island in a single shot: from the most urban, to the vast dusty desert roads, or pine forests.

These commercials were shot in April; composed with the combination of gorgeous weather, the fine quality of equipment, and the profound experience of the skilled audiovisual professionals of Tenerife.

Tenerife's attraction as a destination for international advertising shoots is on the rise.

Major advertisers are filming spots on the island, supported by an increasingly solid local industry and a great variety of locations from beaches to mountains or urban spaces. 

Advertising filming activity in Tenerife has intensified in recent months. The new panorama following the Covid-19 pandemic has boosted the island's attractiveness as a safe filming set for international firms that used to travel to other territories beyond Europe.

The boom in advertising production has included local companies with a long history in production services such as Sur Film and Volcano Films, but also others that have recently settled on the island, such as Solworks.

Recent commercial work hosted in Tenerife:

• The Swiss lottery Swisslos, the fashion company C&A, the German bank Postbank and Volkswagen, serviced by Sur Film
• Louis Vuitton, serviced by Volcano Films
• Global brand Zara and the Italian food company AIA, serviced by Solworks Film
• Fashion editorials for Elle Magazine and El Corte Inglés, produced by Pop House.

Plenty of movies and commercials have been shot in the Canary Islands, and Tenerife has been constantly chosen as a filming location for its diverse and paradisiacal landscape. You may find a modern city near a beach, plenty of natural parks or you may spot colossal mountains from almost everywhere. The visual attraction of the island keeps capturing the attention of photographers, producers, artists and storytellers in general. Desert landscapes are a key location in Tenerife. 

The south of the island and Teide National Park are very popular locations to tell stories. Sky Rojo (Netflix) is about to be released soon this month and it shows a charming yellow Tenerife with a dry dusty landscape. In addition, Our Father (Volcano Films and Noodless Productions) brings to life a modern western with road movie conventions. La piel en llamas – Skin On Fire (Alamo Productions with collaboration of Festeam Comunicación y Eventos) shows us an abandoned miltary zone but also an iconic location of the island, Arico. Also ‘Ça ira’ the videoclip from the French ‘Vitaa & Slimane’ goes through a wide variety of deserted locations, chosen by Seven Islands Film.

Three new hotels added to film-friendly locations! 

Tenerife Film Commission promotes the island as a versatile filming location. Baobab Suites, Hotel Royal Hideaway Corales Resort, and Gran Hotel Bahía del Duque Resort - luxury hotels with spectacular architecture - were added to the list of film-friendly locations in Tenerife!

Bahía del Duque Resort is inspired by the 19th Century traditional Canary Island architecture. The surface area covers 100,000 m², with over 63,000 m² of tropical gardens. Its Villas are inpired by elegant and classical style using volcanic stone.

Royal Hideaway Corales was influenced by avant-garde architecture and reminds of a cruise ship. The interior was inspired by the corals around the island and there is a wonderful view of the sea.

Baobab Suites is proud of its minimalist, complex, and modern architecture. The hotel is situated to get the best and most impressive views posible.

Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, hosts a wide variety of audiovisual projects - from advertising pieces such as the 'Transit' campaign for Schön Magazine by local production company La Créme Films, to classic action films such as the recently released 'Rambo: Last Blood', handled in Tenerife by Nu Boyana Canarias.

Television series are also coming to Tenerife, with 'The Head' by production company Mediapro now in its post-production phase, while La Gaveta Producciones serviced a spot by Chilean brand Athena Foods with production company Funky Films.

In short, Tenerife and its professionals demonstrate their diversity across landscapes and artistic disciplines. 

The Tenerife Film Commission has drawn up a ten-point good practice guide for sustainable film production. The document is designed to make national and international shoots more environmentally friendly and is based on the idea that sustainability involves balanced economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.

The guide suggests actions to be carried out at the different phases of film production, from pre-production to post-production.

The ten-point guide, available in Spanish, English and German, can be downloaded here.