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Mississippi advances plans to boost per-production film incentive caps
Mississippi is advancing plans to increase the cash feature productions can claim through the state’s filming incentive programme. Currently producers can get a cash rebate of up to 30% with a per-production payment cap of USD8 million; authorities want an…
TLG and AFCI offer a Lounge as a production resource at the Cannes Film Festival
The Location Guide has joined forces with the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) to host a Lounge at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Partners opting to be part of the lounge will have a sustained presence alongside leading international…
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…
Producer Jess aan de Wiel sorts London meet for Women in Advertising Production
The Women in Advertising Production (WAP) – set up by producer Jess aan de Wiel – has organised a formal meeting in London for tomorrow night (Thursday 8th March). Designed as a network for female producers in the UK, the…
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…
Advertising bodies team up for Future of Advertising seminar at BAFTA in London
A seminar on the future of advertising will be held in London on March 14th 2012. The Advertising Producers Association (APA) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) are holding the event at BAFTA that will feature contributions from…
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…