Czech Republic’s location filming fund has been boosted despite an earlier presidential veto. President Vaclav Klaus vetoed plans to expand the filming incentive as he disagreed with the notion of the film industry getting state funding, but the Czech Parliament overruled him.
America’s federal filming tax break is among the programmes to be extended by the fiscal cliff deal approved by Congress earlier this week. Politicians avoided the real danger of recession as a series of tax cuts was set to expire at the end of 2012.
Film production in North Carolina is likely to level off in 2013, the state film office has stated. North Carolina racked up over 4,000 production days in 2012, including Marvel’s Iron Man 3, but the film office has reiterated that big-budget features are unlikely to be regular annual visitors.
Tom Cruise’s new film Jack Reacher shot on location across Pittsburgh, attracted mainly by Pennsylvania’s filming tax credit. The movie tells the story of a maverick detective uncovering a criminal conspiracy against the backdrop of a series of sniper murders.
A new BBC TV drama scheduled to screen at Sundance in January 2013 and then in the UK in March, was filmed on location near Queenstown in New Zealand. Top of the Lake is a seven-part series that follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl.
Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto is negotiating to build a new filming facility in Canadian capital Ottawa. The city is putting up CAD1.5 million to support the development, which it hopes will quadruple the capital’s existing CAD50 million production industry.
Television drama Teen Wolf has relocated to Los Angeles to take advantage of newly-available funds in California’s state filming incentive. The show filmed its first two seasons in Atlanta – using Georgia’s incentive support – after it was put on the waiting list for California’s tax credit.
[slideshow id=330]Esperanza Crespí Pibernat was born in Palma de Mallorca. She works in career guidance and development, heads City Council of Palma and for the past year has been President of PalmaActiva, the local development agency and headquarters of Palma Film Office.