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Morocco as a filming location
Morocco has long been the go-to destination for all your high-end historical epic needs, and the list of assets is pretty mouth-watering. Deserts. Mountains. Bustling ancient and modern cityscapes. Highly skilled and experienced crews. Incredibly cheap production costs. A permanent…
Toshiba's Space Chair launches from Nevada
When creative agency Grey London and production company Hungry Man wanted a backdrop for their groundbreaking new spot, Space Chair, for Toshiba, they chose Nevada. Shot in the wilderness of the Nevada Black Rock desert 12 miles north east of…
Latvian locations for new Drambuie ad
When creative agency Nitro Group and production company Academy Films wanted a Scottish location for their latest Drambuie spot, they chose Latvia because of its low costs and good overall production values. They turned to local production service company Baltic…
Filming in Brazil
Focus Features' tasty development deal with Brazil’s most successful production company of the last decade, 02 Filmes, looks like bearing fruit once again as they are currently making VIPs. The movie, which Christian Grass, CEO of Focus Features International calls…
African locations double for Iraq
When UK-based Company Pictures was searching for locations to double for Iraq during the first days of the war, it was South African location specialists Out of Africa Entertainment who won the day with their extensive experience of Mozambique, Namibia…
The location power of Bollywood
In a first, prominent Bollywood producer and actor Shah Rukh Khan has been signed by the Korean Tourism Organisation as its cultural ambassador to promote tourism and to encourage Indian filmmakers to shoot in Korea. Korean Consul General, Dong Yern…
Guinness brings the world to life
When Guinness and creative agency AMV BBDO made the bold decision to move away from the well established ‘Good Things Come to Those Who Wait’ strapline, they knew that any television ad campaign would have to be something spectacular. The…
Film Production Service in Israel
Israel is a country that takes its film industry seriously. The Treasury increased its film budget by nearly 16% to USD16 million this year with the money being distributed to Israeli film funds, foundations and institutions by the Israeli Film…
Filming in Egypt
In February 2000, the Egyptian government decreed that a new film and TV production zone would revitalise the fortunes of a struggling film industry. So how has the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) fared in the last decade, in the…
Filming on location with BBC Science
Chris Tangey, from Alice Springs Film and Television, talks to The Location Guide about filming on location with BBC Science in the very centre of Australia's outback for How the Earth Made Us, a major new series on how geology…