Paula Trabulsi, director of over 2000 commercials and currently on the BossaNovaFilms directors roster, will be Brazil's panelist for the Audiovisual Production Techniques category at the Ibero American Advertising Festival (FIAP).
Serbian born director Petar Spiljevic has officially signed on to Cape Town based Velocity Films' director roster.
Law firm SJ Berwin is to close its UK media division which specialises in media asset finance work.
Michigan is on the verge of completing a deal that will see three film and television studios, worth an estimated USD80 million, built in the southeast of the state.
Zentropa, the Danish production company founded by director Lars Von Trier, is due to open its first Norwegian office under the name Zentropa Norge.
Although the UK box office is seeing record sales, GBP949.5 million was spent in 2008 which equates to a 5% increase on 2007, its production is certainly not.
The long-awaited study by Ernst & Young on the economic return by the state’s film and media incentives found that for every USD1 extended in state tax credits, state and local governments received USD1.50. The results will be a great relief for the New Mexico film industry as an earlier survey reported that the return could have been as low as 15 cents.