Qualified as " Moroccan Hollywood ", Ouarzazate offers to the productions of the striking outer sets such as oases, kasbahs, valleys, mountains and dunes, without forgetting its exceptional climate, where the sun is present more than 300 days a year!
Due to the diverse shootings accommodated to Ouarzazate (full-length film, reports and documentaries), a hand of qualified and cheap work as well as a multiethnic population for the representation developed, as much as the companies of service offer, the diverse suppliers in transport, catering and the technicians.
Ouarzazate has an international airport, powerful medical infrastructures, hotels of various categories, and movie studios with the international standards and sets of various types: Roman, Egyptians, etc…
All these inescapable assets assure a certain competitiveness (30 50 % of the global cost) and a high quality of shooting.
Morocco knew how to attract multiple international productions in its various regions and it due to:
- The effective and active implication of the Moroccan Film Center
- Grants it express of the authorizations of shooting
- A privileged geographical situation
- A hot and moderate climate
- Interesting costs
- Teams of successful technicians
- Multitudes of diversified outer sets
- Companies of successful services
- On-the-spot availability of diverse technical equipments
In it are added numerous measures in favour of the foreign productions introduced by the Moroccan government:
- Existence of agreements of coproduction with diverse country
- Exemption from the VAT on all the purchases of goods and services in Morocco
- Simplification of the procedure of customs clearance in the import and in the export of
the equipment of Shooting
- Discounts granted by the national airline company on the transport of Persons and goods
- A symbolic pricing for the shootings in diverse sites, museums and Historic monuments
- The excellent assistance of all the official bodies of kingdom: Armed forces Royal
(ground, Air and marine), the Royal Gendarmerie and the police
- A simplification of the procedure of the temporary import of weapons and Ammunitions
that must be used in the shootings