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Jacaranda Films finds laidback attitudes amid the traffic filming on location in Angola
Jacaranda Films, based in Argentina and Uruguay, has filmed in Angola for mobile operator Movicel. Timing was one of the biggest challenges faced by the production team in a country not accustomed to the fast-paced work schedules that is the…
Filming in Macau with Location Manager Campbell Mclean
Campbell founded a location production company in 1989 specialising in line-producing Korean and Chinese TV commercials on location throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. He was Location Manager on the USD45 million production Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel,…
Shooting in the Czech Republic with Film Commissioner Ludmila Claussova
Ludmila has been working with the Czech Film Commission since it was established in 2004. From the beginning it was clear that the Czech Republic needed to offer some kind of incentive to filmmakers to remain competitive. Rebates and tax…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we’ve covered eye-catching new commercials from Garmin, VW China and a Brazilian language school, with filming locations found in Austria, Beijing and California respectively. New figures from Britain revealed that the UK had a good 2011, while Columbia…
Liam Neeson’s The Grey braves sub-zero conditions on location in British Columbia
British Columbia stands in for the wilds of Alaska in new survival thriller The Grey. The film stars Liam Neeson as the head of a group of oil workers stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash. It charts their…
On location with Line Producer Mags Lightbody
Mags Lightbody is a freelance Associate Producer specialising in science and wildlife documentaries and specialist factual dramas. She started out as a Biology graduate and field scientist researching chimpanzees and monkeys in Uganda and South Africa before breaking into Natural…
Filming in Tokyo with Location Co-ordinator Masato Yamada
Masato studied photography in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating he worked for several photographers in New York before setting up his own studio with a friend. Things began to slow in New York after 1986's notorious Black Monday so Masato…
Filming on location in Latvia with Producer Sergei Serpuhov
In the turbulent 1990s Sergei left Latvia and headed to London to experience western living and seek out his fortune. He ended up serving cocktails to celebrities and media professionals at Teatro, a club popular with the industry, which in…
Weareflink creates Chinese New Year on location in Beijing for VW
German production company Weareflink and Chinese production house CONTRA have filmed in Beijing to mark Chinese New Year for vehicle manufacturer VW. The spot shows a dragon with VW wheels creeping through a busy Beijing street to mark the event.…
Hafzoo navigates alpine snow and ice for Garmin on location in Austria
Production company Hafzoo has followed French cycling star Christophe LeMèvel on a punishing alpine training session in a new spot for GPS specialist Garmin. The Climb shows LeMèvel cycling a remote Austrian highway as his Garmin device measures his performance.…