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New VW ad shoots in India and uses Uruguay as a double
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has filmed the latest commercial for its Amarok pickup truck on location in India and Uruguay. Korama tells the story of an Indian man’s relationship with his elephant – named Korama – and ends with the…
Sony's Eat, Love, Pray gets the best from Bali's locations
Before Julia Roberts’ hotly-anticipated Eat, Love, Pray was filmed earlier this year, nobody had ever managed to pull off a large studio shoot on the Indonesian island of Bali. But Marco Giacalone’s innovative use of professional coconut harvesters, poisonous sea-snake…
Global locations to catch the eye at Cannes Lions
Many advertising agencies have been defying the recession and continued sending crews out to exciting locations around the world to film their latest spots. Many of these will be showing at the Cannes Lions festival shortly. Ahead of our trip…
Filming incentives in New South Wales get AUSD25 million funding boost
The government in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, is to announce a AUSD25 million funding boost for existing filming incentives to encourage more production in the state. Most of the money will be used to increase state incentives and attract…
Filming on location in Cuba
The isolationist political regime of the last 50 years has made Cuba, the largest island of the Antilles, a timewarp of retro styling. As advertisers and filmmakers are finding, it’s also a cheap and efficient place to get your picture…
New Italian film doubles Tunisia for biblical Palestine
A new Italian-language film about the life of Mary Magdalene has doubled Tunisia for Palestine. Io Sono Con Te (The English title will be Let It Be) considered filming in Morocco but eventually settled on Tunisia. This was due to…
VW chooses India for Polo photo shoot
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has filmed on location in India for a photo shoot advertising its Polo car. The campaign will run alongside its television commercials that doubled South Africa for India. The photo shoot production shot in several locations…
Why Lori Loves California
Lori Balton’s address book is a who’s who of Hollywood production designers, producers, and directors. Amongst others she has location scouted for Spielberg, Scorsese, Bay, Redford, Mann, Darabont, Pakula and Tony Scott, on films including Charlie Wilson’s War, Memoirs of…
New Kathryn Bigelow project will not get support of Paraguay and Argentina
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…
VW ad doubles South Africa for India
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has used South Africa as a double for India in a new series of spots advertising the Polo car. The adverts feature a driver testing the prowess and strength of the Polo through a series of…