Filmmaker Nick Ryan, of Dublin-based Image Now Films, has shot a documentary about mountain peak K2 on location in Switzerland and Pakistan. The Summit focuses on the peak's worst disaster when an ice collapse killed 11 climbers on a single day in 2008.
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.
[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.
North Carolina could gain a new studio if it keeps its generous location filming incentives on a long-term basis. Wilmington’s EUE/Screen Gems Studios is currently North Carolina’s main filming facility.
Australia is under pressure to increase its location offset for filmmaker David Fincher and star Brad Pitt. The pair are set to work together again on Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, but the studio wants a more generous location offset to commit to an Australian shoot.
Northumberland in north-east England has held a forum to promote its filming locations. Northern Film and Media organised the event that offered a networking opportunity and discussions on how to boost the region’s production industry.
The UK will launch a TV location filming tax credit in April 2013. Chancellor George Osborne confirmed the programme to boost the TV industry and encourage high-end shows like Downton Abbey to continue filming in Britain.
Ireland’s location filming incentive programme has been extended through to 2020. The Section 481 Film Tax Relief Scheme will become a tax credit model from 2016, a change which might bring other enhancements too.