ADFEST has announced that the Lotus Awards judging has been delayed as a result of the political unrest in Bangkok. The judging had been scheduled for 24th to 28th May 2010 but the ADFEST team cannot currently get hold of their passports and visas from the Japanese embassy in Bangkok.
A music video for Finnish band Husky Rescue has been filmed in the forest region of Sipoo, near Helsinki in Finland. They Are Coming follows a young couple as they encounter a strange alien light on a forest road in the middle of the night and they attempt to escape it. Hanna Mutanen, Managing Director of and Executive Producer with Grillifilms, said: “Director Pete Riski liked the location because the road and big trees formed a perfect surrounding for this gloomy story.”
The 193-acre baseball field built in Iowa for the filming of Kevin Costner classic Field of Dreams in 1989 has been put on the market.
A new incentive is being considered in Greece to encourage greater investment in the country’s audiovisual industry.
Kathryn Bigelow has run into a potential problem during the pre-production of her new film. The project has the working title Triple Frontiers and the story is to be set in the region of South America where the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet.
A partnership agreement has been signed between Film London and the Ile de France Film Commission at the Cannes Film Festival. The collaboration will include post-production talents from London attending Parisfx in December this year. Several French producers will attend October’s Film London Production Finance Market.
Eric Brown has established a new facilities company in the US. Fixer film production services USA has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Foreign productions looking to qualify for Australia’s Locations Offset scheme will no longer have to spend at least 70% of their total budgets in the country.