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UK Chancellor confirms TV location filming tax credit for April 2013
The UK will launch a TV location filming tax credit in April 2013. Chancellor George Osborne confirmed the programme to boost the TV industry and encourage high-end shows like Downton Abbey to continue filming in Britain. Osborne also announced a…
Report spotlights healthy return for New York’s location filming incentive
New York’s location filming incentive brought USD6.9 billion to the state and generated USD2.23 in tax for every dollar issued in 2011, a new report shows. Some 12,600 production jobs were created as a result of the credit. The study…
Pennsylvania calls for boost to state location filming incentive
Pennsylvania is calling for an increase to the film fund for its location filming incentive. At the moment the state programme has USD60 million allocated annually for a 25% tax credit, but officials say this needs to rise to at…
Saskatchewan short film emphasises importance of filming incentive
A Saskatchewan filmmaker has made a short film to highlight the need for a location filming incentive in the Canadian province. The regional programme was abruptly cancelled earlier this year to massive uproar that reached as far as Hollywood. Rob…
Alexander Payne films new Nebraska feature on location in Montana
Filmmaker Alexander Payne is shooting his new feature Nebraska partly on location in Montana. The film follows a father and son as they travel from Billings in southern Montana through Wyoming to Nebraska. Alex Tyson, is with the Billings Chamber…
RSA Films to shoot new Jaguar campaign on location in Chile with Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis, star of TV show Homeland, will appear in a new campaign for the Jaguar F-TYPE that RSA will film on location in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The actor will play a driver who comes across a mysterious young woman…
Estonia as a filming location: Growth of an audiovisual industry in north-eastern Europe
Estonia’s historic capital Tallinn lies across the Gulf of Finland from Helsinki in north-eastern Europe. TLG investigates the city to see what the country’s production industry has to offer as an international filming location. I travel as a guest of…
Bollywood movie films on location in Oman with star Harman Baweja
A new Bollywood movie has filmed on location in Oman with star Harman Baweja. Dhishkiyaon spent ten days shooting near Muscat in the north of the sultanate, which lies on the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Renny Johnson runs…
Creative Scotland invests in plans for Scottish film studio
Creative Scotland has invested in the initial stage of planning for a potential studio facility in Scotland. The organisation has put forward GBP75,000 for a feasibility study and an initial GBP1 million has also been set aside towards the cost…
Filming on location in Dubai with Filmworks CEO Tim Smythe
Tim has been working in feature films, documentaries and commercials for over 25 years, beginning in South Africa. He relocated to Dubai and set up Filmworks in 1998. The company has grown into one of the biggest and most reputable…