[slideshow id=228]Mike has been managing and scouting locations for film, television and documentaries, both national and international, for over 20 years. He's based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and provides production services for the state and the south-west US. He also works in the Moab region of Utah.
Greece has launched a new pricing structure to encourage filming at historic sites in Athens. Base costs for feature filming in places like the Acropolis have been cut by more than half, while educational projects that directly promote the locations could access even bigger savings.
The Thailand Film Office wants to maximise local film tourism and is calling for regional film commissions in South-East Asia to work together more closely. Thais met with their regional counterparts at the Asian Film Commissions Network (AFCnet) in Vietnam and Myanmar this month.
The Commercial Film Producers of Europe (CFP-E) and the UK’s Advertising Producers Association (APA) will be in Istanbul tomorrow and Friday (26th and 27th January 2012) for the Intercontinental Advertising Cup (ICAC). It’s the third year in a row that the Turkish city is hosting.
Barcelona has stood in for the US in a new commercial for Dr Pepper. Always One of a Kind shows a crowd of people surging through a picturesque but anonymous American city as they assert their individuality with T-shirts summing up their personalities.
Up to 25% of new spy sequel The Bourne Legacy is filming on location in Manila in the Philippines and the producers are full of praise for the city. Producer Frank Marshall says that the existing filming infrastructure was a major appeal and the team was keen to film lesser-known locations.
[slideshow id=229]Bruno studied music at Berklee College in Boston. He then went to Los Angeles and worked around town in different sound-post studios. People kept asking him about shooting in Peru and eventually he started helping them.
Alaska’s filming industries are renewing their call for a ten-year extension to the state’s existing incentive programme. The current scheme is worth USD100 million and expires in 2013, but supporters are campaigning for a lengthy extension that could attract more long-term projects.