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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…
Chronicle finds Seattle on location in Cape Town filming superhero teens
Cape Town in South Africa doubled for Seattle for scenes in the new paranormal thriller Chronicle. Using a pseudo-documentary style, the film follows a group of Seattle teenagers who get special powers when they find a strange object in a…
Arts & Sciences films a casual apocalypse on location in a crowded Buenos Aires
Arts & Sciences has staged an apocalypse in Buenos Aires. End of the World is the new commercial for US beer brand Shock Top and shows a smooth-talking rep casually negotiating a city street ravaged by meteors and aliens, as…
straight 8 organises inaugural India screening on location in New Delhi
Filming organisation straight 8 has organised its first New Delhi screening for tomorrow night (24th February) at The Attic in the city’s Regal Building. The organisation will be showing its top eight straight 8 films of 2011, along with eight…
Filming on location in Valdivia in southern Chile with Bettina Bettati
Bettina is a graduate of the University of Utah. She worked for the university's Film Studies department as media specialist and worked in several independent film movie houses as curator and traffic co-ordinator before heading back to Chile in 2006.…
Rio Film Commission launches grant programme for location filming
The Rio Film Commission has launched a new grant programme to boost location filming in the Brazilian city. A fund of about USD580,000 is available for 2012 and up to four features or TV projects will benefit. Steve Solot is…
Editor’s Weekly
We’ve covered two new commercials this week filmed in Canada and Italy, respectively. We have updates on filming incentive controversies across the US, while Australia has been hit by the cancellation of major feature project Paradise Lost. Deodorant brand Rexona…
Dubai location filming revenue drops after Mission: Impossible shoot
Dubai made around USD40 million from filming productions throughout 2011, a slight decline from the previous year. The fall is mainly due to the absence of a big-budget film production. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol visited the city for a…
Alaska filming incentives cover third of costs on whale drama Big Miracle
Alaska paid out nearly USD10 million - about 30% of the Alaska spend - in filming incentives to the Big Miracle production team, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The film tells the true story of efforts to rescue grey whales…