James Walker is a freelance Location Manager and local fixer who has been living and operating in Italy since the mid-70s. He has extensive experience in television documentary filmmaking and he is also a producer, researcher, Location Manager and fixer on other forms of factual programming.
Hit US comedy show Modern Family could help boost film tourism in Australia following its special two-week shoot in Queensland and New South Wales. The show’s Australia filming marks the first time the comedy has shot outside the US.
Wanda Productions played with San Francisco’s iconic hillside roads in a new spot promoting a Hill Assist feature in the Citroen C4. Catapult shows a collection of cars taking dramatic jumps over a hilltop road, before the C4 tracks the contours much more safely.
A third series of period crime drama Ripper Street will return to film in Dublin, using the city as a double for Victorian London. Flagging ratings had prompted the BBC to cancel the drama, but the show has been resurrected for streaming service Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Production company Goodcop filmed on location on the plains of South Africa for a new spot for Toyota Land Cruiser. Border Post shows a traveller panicking his way through a Central African border post before being pursued at speed by the guards in his Toyota.
India and Canada have signed a co-production filming treaty that will enable qualifying projects to benefit from filming incentives available in both countries. Toronto is one of the top production hubs in North America and as a country Canada is keen to tap into the Bollywood industry.
Producers on the Netflix political drama House of Cards have delayed filming on the show’s third series because of uncertainties about Maryland’s filming incentives. The drama has doubled Baltimore for Washington, DC, over two seasons but the state’s film fund has now been reduced.
Historical epic Gods of Egypt will film on location at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney. The movie is being directed by Australian filmmaker Alex Proyas and will follow battling gods in ancient Egypt, with action star Gerard Butler and Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau heading the cast.