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KRU Studios in Malaysia looks ahead to national filming incentive
Malaysia’s KRU Studios near Kuala Lumpur sees an opportunity to expand its operations once Malaysia launches a formal filming incentive, which is expected in 2012. The studio specialises in TV but has plans to expand. Norman Halim is Executive President…
Filming on location in Fiji with Nic Leggett
Nic was born in New Zealand but has always considered Fiji his second home, moving there for the first time in the early 90s. He and his business partner at Film Fiji are production professionals and have years of experience…
Filming on location in Connecticut with Mark Dixon
Mark has been based at the Connecticut Film (CT) Office since 2000. Before joining the film office he spent nearly 15 years in the locations department on various feature films and TV commercials. Tell me about the region that you…
Scouting across Canada’s Yukon with The Location Guide
The airport at Dawson City in western Yukon, Canada, is a small building about the size of a school classroom and our Piper Chieftain plane has six passenger seats. “Welcome to Dawson City international airport!” jokes my host Colin MacKenzie.…
On location in Czech Republic with Executive Producer Fady Salame
Fady grew up in Lebanon. He joined Leo Burnett Middle East as an Art Director in 1997 and was then transferred to Leo Burnett Prague in 1999. In 2001 he became Executive Producer at Dawson. Fady founded The Sofa Productions…
Park Pictures recreates 1930s Europe for Audi on location in Slovenia
Park Pictures in London has recreated 1930s Europe in Slovenia in its new commercial for Audi. The Swan shows a classic Audi Union struggling with an image problem in the 1930s to the tune of The Ugly Duckling, before turning…
TV production location filming falls nearly 10% in Los Angeles
The first quarter of 2012 was a period of decline for TV location filming in Los Angeles, with the total number of permitted shoot days falling by nearly 10% on 2011, figures from FilmLA show. Filming for TV drama fell…
John Carter creates Mars on location in remote Utah
Utah in the western US was used extensively for the filming of Andrew Stanton’s epic sci-fi John Carter. Rebecca Puck Stair was one of the Location Managers on the project tasked with finding eye-catching filming spots in the sparsely-inhabited state.…
AICP lobbying helps extend New York commercial location filming tax credit
Lobbying from the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has helped extend New York State’s commercial location filming tax credit. The credit has produced a net 3% increase in commercial production since 2007 and in 2009 more than USD100 million…
Georgia extends its uncapped filming incentive programme
Georgia has extended its uncapped film and TV location filming incentive programme. Between June 2010 and June 2011 the state paid out some USD200 million in support to qualifying productions for a direct combined return of nearly USD700 million, so…