Early on in Valencia, there was great interest in films; thus Valencia became the third largest site of silent filmmaking in Spain at that time. There were two main phases in this fruitful era of production. The first occurred around 1910, with the films of the Cuesta Company. The second phase took place during the 1920s, highlighted by the figure of Maximiliano Thous, who filmed his canonical Moros y cristianos (1926). Nevertheless, the Valencian bourgeoisie never truly became interested in home-produced films, and with no economic support, Valencian film production finally came to a halt at the end of the period.... [Leer más...]