Kent attended the California Institute of the Arts for Fine Art Photography and was first introduced to locations by shooting houses and working as a site rep for a location agency in Los Angeles as a summer job. He was brought on as an assistant in the mid-90s.
Los Angeles firm The Real to Reel Location Agency has renewed its representation of the city’s Hollywood & Highland Center through to 2014. The center is an entertainment complex that’s hugely popular for TV filming projects.
David Singleton is a Location Manager based in Sydney, Australia. He’s been scouting and assisting Location Managers for the last three years, with a stint on Fremantles' Masterchef in between.
New 50s-set TV show Magic City built its own sound stages on location in Miami to make room for a huge hotel set. The city offers several studio facilities, but none were large enough for the show’s purposes.
Laura worked in production and on film permitting in Denver before joining the Colorado Office of Film Television and Media. Despite being tempted to continue in production, she stayed in Colorado and is now Location and Community Manager with the film office.
Sci-fi TV favourite Doctor Who is filming in the Almeria region of Spain, using one of the so-called 'Mini Hollywood' sets to double for the American West. It's an area that was famously used by Sergio Leone in the 60s to film his Spaghetti Western trilogy.
Jamie is a West Virginia (WV) native with a degree in mechanical engineering. He started out in the business by spending 15 years running a production company focusing on computer animation before moving to the state film office.
Prague has added another credit to its extensive commercials CV this week. Also in the news there’s been drama surrounding Kathryn Bigelow’s international terrorism thriller filming in India and Vancouver Island in British Columbia revealed it had a strong 2011.