Seoul-based production company Prosum Inc has been filming documentary Becoming Who I Was on location in the Ladakh region of northern India at the foot of the Himalayas. The production follows a young boy who has been 'recognised' as ‘Rinpoche’, or ‘Precious One’ in Tibetan Buddhism.
A new feature charting the true-life friendship between writer Ernest Hemingway and young journalist Ed Myers in the late 1950s, filmed on location in Cuba. Papa is the first feature in half a century to shoot in Cuba with a US director and cast.
Traktor filmed on location in Hong Kong for a new entry in Heineken’s Legends campaign. The City follows a man’s attempts to track down a beautiful woman in an exotic city when she leaves behind a set of business cards.
Bryan Singer filmed new superhero sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past on location in Montreal, Canada. Through a time travel storyline, the film unites the X-Men franchise’s original characters, Professor X, Magneto and Wolverine, with their younger incarnations from X-Men: First Class.
Rabbicorn Media filmed on location in north-east Spain for a new campaign for BMW, doubling the region for global locations. Manifesto was directed by Marco Gentile and explores what BMW ownership means for drivers around the world.
History Channel filmed in West Virginia for its new docudrama The World Wars, doubling the eastern-US state for global locations. Shooting focussed on West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle and recreated a host of countries including Germany, Mexico, Italy and France.
British production company Pilot Productions filmed on location on the remote Yamal Peninsula in north-west Siberia in Russia for documentary series Tough Trains. Moscow-based fixer Alyona Pimanova helped facilitate the shoot through her Munro Productions banner.
Park Pictures built a Roman gladiator arena near Auckland, New Zealand, for a new spot promoting Samsung’s curved Ultra High Definition TV. The ad features a father and son facing a gladiator charge in the Roman arena as the curved TV envelops their senses in their living room.