Production service company Palma Pictures is opening a new office in Barcelona. The firm will continue to be based on Mallorca, but its Barcelona presence will enable it to cover the region more effectively.
A new production company has been set up in Warsaw, Poland, by a pair of producing veterans. Film Delikatesy has been launched by Pawel Kochanowski, formerly of Propeller Film, and Kasia Targonska, formerly of Tandem Taren-To. The company’s main office is in Warsaw, but the firm will operate throughout Poland.
Filming has begun in Manila in the Philippines this week for The Bourne Legacy. It’s the fourth entry in Universal’s lucrative spy series that began back in 2002 with The Bourne Identity. Legacy has filmed mainly in Canada so far and it’s thought it will spend about five weeks in the Philippines.
This week we covered a creative new online advertising campaign from Honda. The UK is in the spotlight again with the release of Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, while the British Prime Minister has called for the UK film industry to back more commercial projects. Elsewhere, US filmmaker Nicole Ballivian is planning a shoot on the West Bank.
[slideshow id=225]Vehicle manufacturer Honda is looking to turn heads with a new online advertising campaign for the Civic that was filmed using a 360-degree camera. Off The Grid takes a visual approach similar to Google Street View and invites the viewer to explore places in striking parts of the world.
[slideshow id=223]Gabrielle Lindemann set up the Kent Film Office for Kent County Council in 2006. Prior to that, she worked for the BBC as a as an Assistant Director and Location Manager before becoming a freelance Location Manager.
[slideshow id=224]American filmmaker Nicole Ballivian is preparing for the challenge of filming in Hebron on the West Bank in the Palestinian Territories. Around 500 armed Jewish settlers live among 160,000 Palestinians in the town, so tensions are constantly high; making a feature is a daunting prospect.
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has called on the UK filming industry to focus its attention on attracting bigger films that target broader audiences. The announcement has proven controversial with filmmaker Ken Loach who is concerned Cameron hasn’t grasped the reality of the industry.