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Virtual stage firm comes to Studio Babelsberg as productions chase filming incentives
Virtual stage specialist Stargate Studios is opening a branch at Studio Babelsberg near Berlin. With more productions chasing filming incentives to shoot in Germany, Stargate will offer an on-site resource to projects looking to create environments not available locally. Stargate…
Setback for Australia as Paradise Lost cancels Fox Film Studios shoot
In a setback for the Australian film industry the planned big-budget adaptation of Paradise Lost has been cancelled. The project was scheduled to film at Fox Studios in Sydney, but the production company has got cold feet as the budget…
Editor’s Weekly
It’s been a busy week for ads and we’ve covered spots filmed in Iceland, Buenos Aires and California. A popular TV story has been news that the BBC will be filming a new period drama in Dublin, doubling the city…
Filming on location in Saskatchewan with SaskFilm’s Tobi Lampard
Tobi has a background as an independent TV producer specialising in TV development. Over her career she has worked with broadcasters such as CBC, AETN, Discovery International and Canwest's group of speciality channels. Working with an international client base, she…
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…