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Caviar creates musical driving course on location in California with OK Go
Chicago rock band OK Go and Caviar Content have built a stunt driving course with a difference in the California desert. For their new video Needing/Getting they’ve turned a Chevy Sonic into a pick as they make music with everything…
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…
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.…
Tennessee campaigns for bigger film fund to boost location filming appeal
Filming professionals in Tennessee are calling for an increase to the state film fund. Incoming productions can get filming incentives worth up to 32% of the local spend, but the annual film fund is only worth USD10 million. Many locals…
Filming in West Virginia with Location Scout Sam Holdren
Sam was born and raised in West Virginia. In fact, aside from three-and-a-half-years in Philadelphia during graduate school, he's always lived in the state. How did you become involved with locations in the area? I already had a background in…
Independent Films recreates Normandy on location near Prague for Sony PlayStation
World War II has come to a Prague quarry in Independent’s new commercial for the PlayStation Vita. The World is in Play shows gamers being absorbed in their preferred genres, but the stand-out scenes involve a beach landing that recalls…
Twickenham Film Studios in London to close despite hosting War Horse and Iron Lady
Twickenham Film Studios in south-west London has gone into administration. The studio dates back to 1913, but has lost money for the past three years. Oscar-nominated features War Horse and My Week with Marilyn have filmed there recently. Gerald Krasner…