We’ve been talking to several Location Managers this week to get their expert views on filming in Hawaii, Cape Town and Buenos Aires. The success of Dolphin Tale in the US has lifted Florida’s filmmaking profile and India has hosted the latest commercial from VW. There’s more Bond news too, with the production heading to Scotland in 2012.
It’s been a big week for the UK film industry with the launch of Creative England, the organisation that’s designed to replace the UK Film Council. Then there’s Kristen Stewart’s new film shooting in Wales and the Bond franchise making plans to film in Istanbul. We also spoke to Stefan Teuber, a Location Scout based in Austria.
[slideshow id=165]Stefan first started location scouting in 1998. While he was studying multimedia engineering in Vienna a phone company asked him to find the perfect Austrian motorway for their commercial. It took several years and plenty of commercial work before Stefan broke into film and TV scouting.
If you want to hear about why Ridley Scott is the most talented director ever, where to find ‘royal palace’-calibre stately homes, the new Millennium Film Finance Corporation and Egyptian camel-wrangling, then you’d enjoy a chat with feature film Executive Producer Nigel Wooll.
[slideshow id=50]The Golden Age of Ukraine was over a thousand years ago, but the largest country in Europe’s topography and rich history have made it a playground for the world’s film crews in the last five years.
[slideshow id=30]An island country off the Malay Peninsula just 85 miles north of the equator in Southeast Asia, there’s no doubt Singapore is something special.
Robin Hood is riding through far more than the glen for Ridley Scott’s latest epic, an action-packed account of the legend, involving sea landings, castles springing up in the woods of Surrey, and the wrong type of undergrowth. Scott called on Bill Darby, veteran of UK locations, for the film that will open this year’s Cannes Festival.
Best known as a banking hub, home to the world’s largest book trade fair, Goethe and, of course, sausages, Frankfurt is actually full of surprises.