[slideshow id=244]Tobi has a background as an independent TV producer specialising in TV development. Over her career she has worked with broadcasters such as CBC, AETN, Discovery International and Canwest's group of speciality channels.
Ontario had a great 2011 with a 30% increase in direct spend from foreign shoots, including a nearly 50% rise in international features. International TV shoots rose by a little over 25%. The overall production spend throughout the province was also up 30%, surpassing the CAD1 billion mark.
Financial benefits California gets from its filming incentive programme are less dramatic than previously claimed, according to a new study from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The study may fan the flames of existing opposition to the programme, despite broadly supporting it.
[slideshow id=246]Campbell founded a location production company in 1989 specialising in line-producing Korean and Chinese TV commercials on location throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
[slideshow id=243]Ludmila has been working with the Czech Film Commission since it was established in 2004. From the beginning it was clear that the Czech Republic needed to offer some kind of incentive to filmmakers to remain competitive.
The UK benefitted from combined production spending of more than GBP1 billion in 2011, according to figures from the British Film Commission. Spending increased from the GBP979 million recorded in 2010, despite the number of feature films falling for the third year in a row.
Major shoots for Brad Pitt’s World War Z and Cloud Atlas helped feed more than GBP20 million into Glasgow’s economy throughout 2011, according to figures from the city’s film office. World War Z delivered nearly GBP3.5 million when it turned the city centre into Philadelphia for nearly 20 days.
We’ve covered two doubling projects from the commercials industry this week, with the French Dairy Council doubling Buenos Aires for France and Dr Pepper turning Barcelona into an unidentified US metropolis. Elsewhere there was bad news for Pinewood Studios in the UK as its expansion plans failed to win approval, while Raleigh Studios is expanding to Utah.