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Filming on location around the world with producer Julia Roberson
Julia is a freelance producer and writer. She started her career in Los Angeles as production executive for a couple of indie feature film companies including PSO Presentations and Weintraub Entertainment Group. She then landed a first look deal with…
Ra One and Iron Lady among projects boosting London’s Wandsworth borough
Wandsworth in south-west London had a strong 2011, hosting scenes for projects including Oscar-winning feature The Iron Lady and big-budget Bollywood thriller Ra One. With high-profile commercials including Nintendo and Microsoft, the borough made nearly GBP200,000 from filming projects. The…
Young Director Award 2012 opens for entries
Entries are now being accepted for the CFP-E (Commercial Film Producers of Europe)/Shots Young Director Award competition. It’s an opportunity for up-and-coming Directors to have their films seen by industry experts and then to find a wider audience at Cannes…
Caviar delivers end-of-the-world terror on location in Prague for Mass Effect 3
Caviar has brough organised chaos to the streets of Prague in a new commercial for epic sci-fi video game Mass Effect 3. The spot is mostly live-action and shows carnage on the streets, as civilians take shelter from the horror…
Superman film Man of Steel helps make 2011 a success for Vancouver Island
New Superman film Man of Steel was one of the feature projects that helped deliver over CAD2 million for Vancouver Island in 2011. The island covers nearly 20,000 square miles and is a 20-minute flight from the city of Vancouver.…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden feature faces protests on location in India
Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has run into trouble filming on location in India. The tentatively-titled Zero Dark Thirty deals with the US mission to track down Osama Bin Laden. It’s using India to double for Pakistan in some scenes, which has…
Filming on location in Tanzania with Peter Jones
Peter's 1976 Tanzanian summer job working with the renowned archeologist Dr Mary Leakey at the Olduvai Gorge turned into an eight-year stay. He became involved with filming due to the number of film crews that regularly visited Olduvai to interview…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we’ve covered commercials filmed in a bay off the coast of Miami, and in the California desert. Meanwhile, filming incentives in British Columbia drive business away from San Francisco and appeals have been made in Scotland and the…
UK Government called on to boost high-end TV with new filming incentives
The UK Government is being called on to boost British TV production by launching filming incentives similar to what’s already available for features. Producers say the UK is losing ‘cinematic’ TV like The Tudors to countries such as Ireland and…
Hobbit location filming update arrives from Peter Jackson in New Zealand
It’s been weeks of careful filming in national parks and helicopter shoots for Peter Jackson and his Hobbit team. The filmmaker has recorded another video diary of his experiences shooting the films on location across New Zealand in footage that…
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