In the land at the end of the world they do not believe in the limits of the imagination. If it can be dreamed, it can be shot in this new studio. The largest virtual production set in Spain, the Coruña Estudio Immersive (CEI), a strategic project promoted by the Provincial Council of Coruña, was presented to the public during the celebration of the San Sebastián Film Festival, a key event for all global cinephilia. The project involves an investment of 9 million euros financed by the Provincial Council and funds from the Spanish Government’s Recovery Plan.
If his landscapes had already transformed Galicia into a pilgrimage destination for directors like Carla Simón in her latest film Pilgrimage or for the award-winning Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who identified the story of Like beasts, The CEI, as stated by the president of the Provincial Council Valentín González Formoso, “comes to add, to open new possibilities; to allow national and international production companies to create in Galicia without limits or technical barriers”. This is a pioneering infrastructure that places the Community at the forefront of the Spanish audiovisual industry, an economic sector with an immense future. “Galicia”, underlines González Formoso, “will not only be a privileged natural setting, as it has always been, but also a virtual stage, a laboratory of ideas and a meeting point between creativity and technology”.
The presentation event, which was attended by the president of Pedralonga Estudios, Fernanda Tabarés, and the president of the Audiovisual Cluster of Galicia (CLAG), Alfonso Blanco, at the iconic hotel in San Sebastian, María Cristina, was attended by a wide representation of platforms and television broadcasters such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Movistar+, RTVE, Mediaset and Atresmedia. The best of a sector that increasingly requires cutting-edge immersive technologies, capable of generating credible virtual realities without having to deploy cameras outside the set and studio sets. In this way the most ambitious projects can be carried out with limited budgets and in a sustainable way. “Pedralonga Estudios and CEI complete a perfect cocktail that positions Galicia as an ideal filming destination,” said Alfonso Blanco.
Cinema, series and video games
The over 2,000 square meters are located in the ICT City, on the area of the old arms factory, where some of the most innovative companies in the area have established themselves.
The ship, with minimalist architecture with a beautiful atrium, hosts the immersive set of almost 800 square meters, which houses a semicircular LED wall 28 meters wide and six meters high, composed of very high resolution Alfalite panels (14,336 by 3,072 pixels). Thanks to extended reality with Pixotope Vision optical tracking, integrated cameras and other cutting-edge equipment, this immersive technology allows the live creation of any scenario. A limestone desert? Done. And now during a starry night! Filming heavy snow in a pine forest? It’s not a problem. Nor is it traveling without moving from one place to any city, to any place in the world. “Our common goal is to offer the latest technology at the service of creativity and industry at competitive prices,” says Fernanda Tabarés.
Two new complexes of 2,500 and 2,000 square meters will be added to this infrastructure already in use throughout 2026, which are in the midst of the construction process. This is a project co-financed by the Provincial Council of A Coruña and the Spanish Government through the Next Generation European funds and in which, in addition to the management company Pedralonga Estudios, the main Galician production companies, such as Portocabo (author of series such as Turnip OR Iron), Vaca Films (Cell 211, Clan, The unit…) and a long etc. “The CEI represents much more than a technological commitment,” states the President of the Provincial Council, “as it is, above all, a great commitment to the creative talent of Galicia, to the ability of its audiovisual sector to reinvent itself and to seek new ways of telling stories that connect with the world.”
