German production company Big Fish has filmed on location near Athens for a new spot for fashion label Bonprix. Highest Fashion shows two women jealously competing to make the most dramatic high-dive when they realise they’re wearing the same bikini design.
A dedicated state film office has been confirmed for Georgia in the south-east US. Authorities have recognised the need for a single, centralised agency to help co-ordinate shoots like locally-filmed zombie drama The Walking Dead as the state’s production industry grows.
An Australian pop duo has filmed a music video on location in southern New Zealand. Max Donovan and Bianca Oechsle – who perform as Max & Bianca – shot on location at Larnach Castle in Dunedin.
A Saudi Arabian filmmaker has made history as the first woman to direct a film on location in the country. Haifaa Al Mansour also wrote Wadjda, which tells the story of a Saudi girl who makes a plan to buy a bicycle she sees in a Riyadh shop window.
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro based his epic monster movie Pacific Rim at Pinewood Studios Toronto. The film charts humanity’s battle for survival building giant robot war machines to fight immense alien monsters that have risen from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Reese Witherspoon’s new feature, refugee drama The Good Lie, filmed partly on location in South Africa and Kenya, in addition to its Georgia setting in the US. The film is based on the true story of Sudanese refugees winning relocation to America.
Hallmark will be filming on location in North Carolina for its Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology TV movie Christmas in Conway. The film will follow in the footsteps of Iron Man 3 and the first Hunger Games, and will be based at Wilmington production house Post 1200.
The Malta Film Commission is aiming to boost local film crew numbers by inviting learning institutions to submit training services bids under a tender process. Training will be carried out as part of the European Social Fund Project ‘Re-skilling of workers for the Local Film Industry’.