[slideshow id=203]After 14 years of teaching infant school children, Natalie decided she needed a total change of scene and went to work as a Production Co-ordinator for a Brisbane production company owned by her brother.
[slideshow id=201]Julie's legal and financial background led her to the media sector. She was involved in the original project finance for Sky, major acquisitions by the advertising group WPP and film finance for such features as The Last Great Emperor.
I recently received an offer to produce 36 episodes of 20 minutes each about the history and contemporary life of the UK. The content was to cover everything from geological features to the most trendy bars and night clubs of today. I was asked for a budget, which I duly put together.
A Japanese production team went to Cork in western Ireland recently to film a Japanese-language feature. Tamatama (By Chance) was filmed in the village of Eyeries on the Beara Peninsula of West Cork and is about a lost Japanese girl washed onto the shores of an un-named mystical land.
In the week marking the first anniversary of our new website being launched, the focus is once again on filming incentives in the US, while specific geographic needs have resulted in the new Mad Max sequel relocating from Australia. In the UK new plans are underway to continue boosting location filming in London around the Olympics.
Peter Jackson’s hobbit films have moved to Arcadia Station, about 70 km from Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island. Around 450 cast and crew assembled on location for the short shoot, and the local economy is thought to have benefitted to the tune of more than NZD1 million.
[slideshow id=200]Santiago studied film in the prestigious Universidad del Cine of Buenos Aires in the 90s. At first he worked in production for commercials and features.
Nancy Haecker is Location Manager on hit TV show House MD. This year she won a gong for Location Manager of the Year in episodic TV at the 2011 California On-Location Awards, organised by Film Liaisons in California, Statewide, and Film LA. TLG caught up with her to discuss her trade.