Nevada has announced a location filming incentive worth up to 19% of local expenditure and the programme will become available in January 2014. Productions will need to film at least 60% of their project in-state and spend a minimum of USD500,000 locally.
The Location Guide is preparing for its Cannes Lions Soiree fringe event on the Majestic Pier on 19 June. Organised with our Soiree partners, the event will be a great opportunity to network with people from throughout the international advertising community.
The Sevilla Film Office has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. Set up in 2003, the Sevilla Film Office is run through Seville City Council’s External Promotion Office (APPES) in the Spanish city.
Chilean Advertising Producers Association (APCP) has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The non-profit organisation represents the interests of commercial production companies throughout Chile.
Filmmaker JJ Abrams has revealed he would have preferred to film the new Star Wars movie on location in California, rather than in the UK. Speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, Abrams spoke of the inconvenience of moving his family to the UK for the shoot.
Fresco Film has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The company was first set up in 1972 and became Fresco Film in 2006, working mainly on commercials and features in Spain and Portugal from offices in Barcelona, Malaga and Lisbon.
A senator in Pennsylvania has pledged to introduce legislation to remove the annual cap on the US state’s location filming incentive programme. The move could help Pennsylvania attract more features on the scale of Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
Finnish Lapland Film Commission has joined The Location Guide as a partner for our Soiree at the Cannes Lions Festival. The commission was founded in 2008 and facilitates projects filming in Finnish Lapland all the way from pre-production through to the end of the shoot.