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Filming in the south of France with Michel Brussol
Michel has have been working for the South of France Film Commission – Var (Commission du Film du Var) since 1996, which makes him the longest-serving film commissioner in France. The commission’s supported by The Conseil Général du Var, which…
James Cameron prepares for epic dive into the Pacific's Mariana Trench
Filmmaker James Cameron is preparing for an historic journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The trench lies in the western Pacific Ocean and at seven miles down is the deepest place on Earth. Cameron’s aiming to become only…
Filming in Hawaii with Location Manager Kent Matsuoka
Kent attended the California Institute of the Arts for Fine Art Photography and was first introduced to locations by shooting houses and working as a site rep for a location agency in Los Angeles as a summer job. He was…
Editor’s Weekly
Prague has added another credit to its extensive commercials CV this week. Also in the news there’s been drama surrounding Kathryn Bigelow’s international terrorism thriller filming in India and Vancouver Island in British Columbia revealed it had a strong 2011.…
Filming on location in Amsterdam with Location Scout Adri Schagen
Adri started working in advertising in the 80s, before switching to the creative industry with Kloosterboer Décor as project leader. Having scouted locations for nearly 20 years, Adri has been building a digital location archive with connections to all sorts…
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…
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…
Editor’s Weekly
We’ve covered three new commercials this week, with filming locations encompassing three of the main global production hubs; Prague, South Africa and Buenos Aires. It’s also been another week of developments with filming incentives in the US. Independent Films has…
Arts & Sciences films a casual apocalypse on location in a crowded Buenos Aires
Arts & Sciences has staged an apocalypse in Buenos Aires. End of the World is the new commercial for US beer brand Shock Top and shows a smooth-talking rep casually negotiating a city street ravaged by meteors and aliens, as…
Filming on location in Valdivia in southern Chile with Bettina Bettati
Bettina is a graduate of the University of Utah. She worked for the university's Film Studies department as media specialist and worked in several independent film movie houses as curator and traffic co-ordinator before heading back to Chile in 2006.…