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Cannes Film Festival 2017: Washington hosts Twin Peaks after 25 year gap
The eagerly awaited revival of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks premiered on Sunday at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, marking the Director’s first entry in the franchise since the 1992 feature film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The original series used…
Channel 4’s We’re the Superhumans named Commercial of the Year at The British Arrows 2017
Blink Productions’ critically acclaimed We’re the Superhumans has scooped the Commercial of the Year award at The British Arrows 2017. Directed by Dougal Wilson and released in the run up to the Rio 2016 Paralympics, the spot features over 140…
Family Film joins The Location Beach Lounge at Cannes Lions 2017
Family Film has joined forces with The Location Guide to bring you this year’s Beach Lounge at the Cannes Lions Festival. Operating in Romania and Hungary as both a production and production service company, Family Film has years of experience…
A Producer’s Survival Guide to India - Part 4: Budgeting
India is an astounding, ever-changing, chaotic melting pot of ideas, religions, landscapes and history that contribute to its mind-boggling diversity. Perhaps this is why so many creative minds have been attracted to the sub-continent over the years? It’s impossible to…
The APA joins The Location Beach Lounge at Cannes Lions 2017
The Advertising Producers Association (APA) has partnered with The Location Guide to bring you this year’s Beach Lounge at the 2017 Cannes Lions Festival. The APA is the leading representative body for advertising production professionals working throughout the UK. From…
1.4 joins The Location Beach Lounge at Cannes Lions 2017
The Location Guide is proud to announce that 1.4, the online magazine for cutting edge filmmakers, will be a new partner at this year’s Beach Lounge at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. 1.4 provides editorial coverage of the very…
Cannes Film Festival 2017: How to Talk to Girls at Parties shot 70s sci-fi entirely in the UK
John Cameron Mitchell’s period sci-fi feature, How to Talk to Girls at Parties will screen this Sunday as part of the ‘Out of Competition’ selection at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Shot entirely within the UK, the film’s locations include…
Cannes Film Festival 2017: Bong Joon Ho’s US-Korea co-production, Okja, competes for Palme d’Or
Bong Joon Ho’s Okja has made history at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, being one of the first films set for online-only distribution (alongside The Meyerowitz Stories) to compete for the coveted Palme d’Or award. The US-South Korea co-production was…
Craftworks: The secrets of Land Rover’s latest spot and how to make advertising funny again
Designed to “take the self-loathing out of advertising”, Craftworks is a unique event hosted by David Reviews and the Advertising Producers Association. Each event highlights and celebrates the very best examples of craftsmanship from all areas of the creative/production industries.…
Vicky Jewson’s Closer becomes first recipient of the new Thailand film incentive
Vicky Jewson’s upcoming film about a group of elite female bodyguards, entitled Closer, will become the first recipient of Thailand’s cash rebate incentive. Productions that spend a minimum of THB50 million can receive a 15% cash rebate, alongside several potential…
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Hello All! We Are Looking For Road Locations In The Us For A Car Commercial Shoot Around November/december. Needs To Be Sunny/clear Skies And Landscape…
Posted Sep 30, 2016 - 4 repliesFixer Needed in HONG KONG
Hi, We Are An Indian Independent Film Making Team. We Are Going To Be In Hong Kong In Mid Of October 2016 & We Do…
Posted Sep 30, 2016 - 0 repliesNeed a fixer in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria
We Are A Documentary Photography Team, Including The Photos And Video. So The Fixer Who Know The Local Situation And Have A Driving License Is…
Posted Sep 29, 2016 - 3 repliesLocation in London
Hi A Documentary Series Need Help With Arranging A Cafe Location By Sunday The 2nd Of October For An Interview. Area Around London Bridge. It…
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Incentives (200)
Puglia: The Apulia Film Fund (film & tv fiction)
The Apulia Film Fund requires that at least 150% of the grant is spent in the Pugliese territory and that 30% of production crew is hired locally from the Puglia region.
Lazio: FILAS
A Fund for early VAT recovery to foreign producers The maximum funding application will not exceed 50% of the "under the line" production budget to be spent in Lazio. The maximum admissible financing for each individual operation will not exceed,…
Friuli Venezia Giulia: Regional Audiovisual Fund
At least 150% of the regional grant must be spent in the region itself, with the exception of crews and investment expenses.
In Process of Approving the New Funding / Campania: The Campania co-production fund
Each Application to the fund will be given points, according to a list of criteria that the project must meet. These criteria includes: - The level of territorial promotion the project has - The artistic value of the project -…
Italy: The Tax credit for Foreign Film
Foreign productions are required to hire a local production service company to access the incentive. With regards to foreign cast and crew, the criteria listed above only applies if they are paid by the local service company. The incentive operates…
Sweden: no formal incentive in place.
Significant projects will be evaluated on a case by case basis. The Swedish Film Institute supports Swedish filmmaking, allocating grants for production, and distribution. Applicants must have a Swedish producer or be a company registered in Sweden. Alternatively, applications coming…
Galicia: no formal incentive in place.
Santiago de Compostela Film Commission (run by the City Council) offers a 50% reduction in shooting fees for filming in public places in the city (EUR350 euros per day) as long as the production meets two requirements: The production is…
The Canary Islands Special Tax Zone (Corporate Tax reduction)
Spain: International Tax Credits
The 15% base rate is available to productions that shoot solely in mainland Spain. The rate increases to 35% for productions that film in either Navarre or the Canary Islands, with the per-project cap also increasing to EUR4.5 million for…
Malta: Financial Incentives for the Audiovisual Industry Regulations
The rebate can be applied to a ceiling of 80% of the total production budget. VAT is fully recoverable on all goods and services utilised by a production company and is recoverable (for film production companies only) on hotels and…