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VAT break introduced in Italy for foreign productions
International productions filming in Italy are now exempt from paying VAT costs. Productions have routinely had to add 20% to their budgets to prepare for the VAT and although it could be claimed back this had sometimes happened long after…
Apollo Productions launched to boost UK location filming
Apollo Productions has been launched in the UK as a production service company designed to draw more Producers to Britain. Steve Norris, former British Commissioner at the UK Film Council, has joined forces with Pinewood Studios and Framestore to launch…
Denis Lillie appointed new CEO of Cape Film Commission in South Africa
With South Africa well on the way to establishing itself as one of the world’s leading production hubs, newly-appointed Film Commissioner Denis Lillie has assumed the responsibility of forging the future of Cape Town’s wider film industry. A Brit by…
Ukraine as a location for filming
The Golden Age of Ukraine was over a thousand years ago, but the largest country in Europe’s topography and rich history have made it a playground for the world’s film crews in the last five years. Ukraine’s media business is…
TLG talks to X-Men and Superman Returns Location Manager
Mary Barltrop moved to Australia from London ten years ago and has become one of the country’s top Location Managers, working on Superman Returns, Australia and X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as numerous TV shows. She talks to The Location…
Filming in the Australian outback
The outback usually evokes images of a silent, hot, empty void. But is it really like that? Well yes… and no. I suppose I should have some idea - I’ve lived smack bang in the middle of it for 23…
Sinking of the Laconia films on location in Cape Town
World War II TV drama The Sinking of the Laconia was filmed entirely in Cape Town. The programme tells the true story of a German U-boat that sank the eponymous vessel off the West African coast in 1942. The U-boat…
New Mexico considering slashing state filming incentive by 10%
Republican Susana Martinez, the recently-elected Governor of New Mexico, is considering plans to reduce the state’s filming incentive by a dramatic 10% in line with efforts to cut public spending. Slashing the incentive from 25% to 15% could have a…
Alberta Culture Minister due in Los Angeles to promote location filming
The Culture Minister for Alberta, Canada, will be spending most of next week in Los Angeles promoting Alberta as a filming location. Lindsay Blackett will be meeting with independent Producers and some of the major Hollywood studios between January 17th…
First ‘Hollywood-benchmarked’ studios launched in Mumbai
Mumbai is already a thriving filmmaking centre, but the city is gaining the first studios built to the Hollywood ‘benchmark’, meaning they’ve been constructed in line with “strict Hollywood compliant design specifications.” Reliance MediaWorks, DreamWorks’ partner, is behind the new…