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Filming with COLA-winning Location Manager S Todd Christensen
Todd was born in South Dakota and shifted to a career in film early on. He started working as an Assistant Location Manager in 1995 and then moved to New Mexico in 2006. He now works as a Teamster Local…
Filming on location in Amsterdam with Location Scout Adri Schagen
Adri started working in advertising in the 80s, before switching to the creative industry with Kloosterboer Décor as project leader. Having scouted locations for nearly 20 years, Adri has been building a digital location archive with connections to all sorts…
Filming on location around the world with producer Julia Roberson
Julia is a freelance producer and writer. She started her career in Los Angeles as production executive for a couple of indie feature film companies including PSO Presentations and Weintraub Entertainment Group. She then landed a first look deal with…
Caviar delivers end-of-the-world terror on location in Prague for Mass Effect 3
Caviar has brough organised chaos to the streets of Prague in a new commercial for epic sci-fi video game Mass Effect 3. The spot is mostly live-action and shows carnage on the streets, as civilians take shelter from the horror…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden feature faces protests on location in India
Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has run into trouble filming on location in India. The tentatively-titled Zero Dark Thirty deals with the US mission to track down Osama Bin Laden. It’s using India to double for Pakistan in some scenes, which has…
Filming on location in Tanzania with Peter Jones
Peter's 1976 Tanzanian summer job working with the renowned archeologist Dr Mary Leakey at the Olduvai Gorge turned into an eight-year stay. He became involved with filming due to the number of film crews that regularly visited Olduvai to interview…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we’ve covered commercials filmed in a bay off the coast of Miami, and in the California desert. Meanwhile, filming incentives in British Columbia drive business away from San Francisco and appeals have been made in Scotland and the…
UK Government called on to boost high-end TV with new filming incentives
The UK Government is being called on to boost British TV production by launching filming incentives similar to what’s already available for features. Producers say the UK is losing ‘cinematic’ TV like The Tudors to countries such as Ireland and…
On location with Laura Thoel of Smuggler (LA)
Laura is an Executive Producer and Head of Production for film, TV, commercials and music video production company Smuggler. Laura discusses what she looks for when shooting abroad. What's your background? I started in journalism as a reporter for public…
Editor’s Weekly
We’ve covered three new commercials this week, with filming locations encompassing three of the main global production hubs; Prague, South Africa and Buenos Aires. It’s also been another week of developments with filming incentives in the US. Independent Films has…