The Biltmore Estate is in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, in the eastern US and was built by George Washington Vanderbilt. It’s America’s largest privately-owned home and has welcomed an impressive number of film, TV and commercial shoots over the years.
Slovenia in central Europe is being used as a Bollywood filming location for the first time. Filmmaker VV Vinayak has brought his Telugu-language feature film Nayak to three of the country’s most eye-catching locales.
Public money will assist expansion plans for a studio in Atlanta, Georgia. EUE/Screen Gems Studio in the city’s Lakewood neighbourhood has been awarded nearly USD500,000 towards the USD3.3 million needed to develop two more sound stages.
A Location Scout has caught a rare fire tornado on camera while working on location in central Australia. Chris Tangey is with Alice Springs Film and Television in Australia’s Northern Territory and his film has attracted attention around the world.
Barcelona-based production service company The Lift Spain is now Story: We Produce. Ana Laura Solis is the firm’s Founding Partner and Managing Director and the re-brand reflects her recent acquisition of full ownership. The company is also now detached from the Mexican branch.
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir in the northern tip of India has set up a new committee to promote the region as a filming location. Boosting film tourism will also be a prerogative of the new Film Tourism Promotion Committee.
A new report has revealed the scale of California’s filming production wage loss in recent years. Between 2004 and 2011 the state lost USD3 billion in wages due to a steady exodus of filming projects to other US states and the international market.
Olivia is a Producer and Managing Director, running her own company, Johnny Foreigner, a Directors’ Agency based in London. Most of her clients are production companies who hire her directors for one-off assignments.