India plans to capitalise on shoot locations from Ang Lee’s critically-acclaimed feature Life of Pi to boost regional film tourism. The movie’s story starts in a zoo in India before following Pi’s struggle to survive while adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengali tiger for company.
Details of production spending from location filming on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films have been revealed by the Office of Prime Minister John Key in New Zealand. The figures were released when politicians questioned how many jobs the films created.
Dublin-based Maxfilms has shot a new spot for Bank of Ireland on location in a remote lighthouse in County Donegal. The commercial shows an operator changing the lighthouse bulb on a stormy night as a visual metaphor for the bank’s commitment to its customers.
Alexandra Palace lies in north-east London and offers a great mix of location filming opportunities for film productions. The palace itself is steeped in 140 years of history, while nearly 200 acres of parkland include a deer enclosure and an old race course.
Moscow-based Metrafilms headed to Finnish Lapland for a winter campaign for Russian telecommunications firm Beeline. The spot shows revellers bringing in 2013 with a mix of snowboarding and a nightclub party.
Hampshire in southern England attracted major features including Les Miserables and Brad Pitt’s World War Z through the course of 2012. Total production spending came to around GBP3 million for the year.
Renowned actor Derek Jacobi is likely to return to filming locations in West Yorkshire in northern England for a second series of TV drama Last Tango in Halifax. The show tells the story of childhood sweethearts reunited after 60 years apart and has been a hit for the BBC.
[slideshow id=333]Alain began his career working in advertising in Canada before moving to Paris in 2009 to study film production. He is now Project Executive at Agence Film Réunion (Réunion Island Film Commission and Office) on Réunion, a French territory in the south-west Indian Ocean.