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Parisfx event to celebrate digital advertising at New York’s Creative Week 2013
A Parisfx event will celebrate digital advertising and post-production arts as part of New York’s upcoming Creative Week. Presented by the Ile de France Film Commission with the French Embassy, Parisfx will showcase the leading French companies working in visual…
Traktor builds lemon grove and Parisian street filming on location in India for HSBC
Traktor built a lemon grove and a Parisian street on location in southern India for a new commercial for banking giant HSBC. The spot shows a small American girl meeting a new supplier in India for her multinational lemonade stand…
Ile de France Location Expo comes to Paris’ Parc de la Villette
This year's Ile de France Location Expo – run by the Ile de France Film Commission – will take place at the Parc de la Villette in Paris on 14th-15th February, and The Location Guide is a proud partner. It…
Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables films period Paris in English city of Bath
Bath in western England has doubled for Paris in Tom Hooper’s new feature adaptation of musical classic Les Miserables. Filming has taken place across southern England and also on the new Richard Attenborough stage at Pinewood Studios. Pat Karam is…
Luc Besson opens Cité du Cinéma studio complex outside Paris
French filmmaker Luc Besson has officially opened his new Cité du Cinéma studio complex on the outskirts of Paris. The EUR170 million facility is built on the site of a former power station in Seine-Saint-Denis, a working-class district of the…
Winchester in UK doubles for period Paris in Les Misérables
The historic city of Winchester in Hampshire, southern England, has doubled for 19th Century Paris in Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Les Misérables. Today is the last day of a two-week shoot that’s focussed on areas around the city’s cathedral. Ian…
Île de France Location Expo comes to Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
The Île de France Location Expo is taking place at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris on 10th and 11th February, and The Location Guide will be there to support them. Filming professionals from across the industry will be going…
Scorsese’s Hugo builds a Parisian train station and films at London’s V&A
Martin Scorsese’s new 3D feature Hugo is set within a Parisian railway terminal in the early 1930s. The station was built at Longcross Studios near London and needed a working train track, while London’s Victoria & Albert Museum stood in…
Jason Statham’s Killer Elite doubles Australia for UK, Oman and Paris
Jason Statham’s latest action thriller, Killer Elite, is set in places like the UK, Oman, Dubai and Paris, but filmed mostly in the Australian state of Victoria. More extensive shooting was considered in places like the UK, but keeping prices…
Old school chic at Paris' Relais Plaza
It’s impossible not to feel a little like Carrie from Sex and the City when sweeping through the Plaza Athenee’s revolving doors. I’m at the legendary Parisian ‘palace’ to venture inside the inner sanctum on the very swanky Avenue Montaigne.…
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Producer/Fixer in Germany
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Directory (2925)
Clubhouse Films
Category: Production Service Companies
Country: Vietnam
Covering: VietnamProduction Algarve
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Country: Portugal
Covering: AlgarveAndy Fiord Photo & Film Production
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Country: Russia
Covering: Russia,Saint PetersburgMarin County Film Resource Office
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Country: United States of AmericaMünchhausen Productions
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Country: Estonia
Covering: Estonia, Spain, FinlandGreen Olive Films
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Country: Cyprus
Covering: Cyprus, GreeceScreen.brussels Film Commission
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Country: BelgiumTA PRODUCTION
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Country: Thailand
Covering: South East AsiaMagic Touch Films
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Country: Namibia
Covering: Namibia, Southern Africa, BotswanaKarma Films
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Country: Turkey
Covering: Turkey, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Romania, Bulgaria
Incentives (165)
Georgia Cash Rebate
The rebate of GEL 1,000,000 is approved automatically. Projects requesting higher rebate need special approval of the Government of Georgia. The base rate of the incentive stands at 20%. To access the full 25% rebate, productions are required to meet…
The Netherlands Film Production Incentive
In order to access the grant, feature films and animated films must have a budget of at least EUR1 million, while documentaries are required to have a minimum of EUR250,000. While the per-project cap is set at EUR1 million, a…
Advance Support for Production
When support is applied for the Finnish part of international co-productions, the applicant must in addition to the aforementioned appendices to the application also deliver the following documents to the Foundation: ■ A cooperation contract or deal memo of all…
Puerto Rico Film Incentive Program
The incentive is received 31 days after the final audit. The production may request an advance payment of the tax credits by placing a bond for the face value of the 50% of the tax credit reserved, at the time…
Switzerland Film Investment Refund
Panama: Tax Rebate
Foreign productions benefit from a 15% rebate on local spend. The country also makes it easy to shoot with a foreign crew by facilitating the paperwork for foreign employers as well as applying a tax exemption on any material and…
Macedonia cash rebate
Macedonia offers an incentive programme unique to co-produtions, providing 50% recoupment of the box office and other recoupment sales. The annual budget for this programme is EUR6.5 million, with a 70% cap on production budgets and 90% for debut films.
KOFIC Location Incentive
- 30% rebate : Shoot more than 10 days Spend more than 2 billion KRW (2 million USD) - 25% rebate : Shoot more than 7 days Spend 500 million KRW (500,000 USD) / less than 2 billion KRW (2…
Japan: Film Aid Funds available
Many film commissions in Japan offer fee exemptions of public facilities. Some film commissions offer funds and/or fee exemptions, such as: Matsumoto: Film aid fund (max. 5 million yen) Nagoya: Film aid fund (max. 10 million yen) Osaka: Location scouting…
Apulia International Film Fund
The Apulia International Film Fund will reimburse 15% of the production costs incurred in Apulia, thus allowing non-Italian producers to obtain a further 25% tax credit provided for by Italian law. In addition, production companies will enjoy a VAT-free status…