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Corona Light shoots in Tayrona National Park, Colombia
Beer brand Corona Light has filmed a new commercial in the Canaveral/Ecohabs beach area of Tayrona National Park in Colombia. The area is close to where Specsavers filmed its Billions commercial earlier this year. Moonlight shows a group of young…
Finance company shoots ads with smoke and an elephant in California
Ohio-based Western & Southern Financial Group has shot two new commercials in California. Strength shows a man talking about the company’s strengths on a desert road while a sumo wrestler, an elephant and a wrecking ball all fail to topple…
Africa United shoots in South Africa, Burundi and Rwanda
New feature film Africa United is set across southern Africa and has been filmed in South Africa, Burundi and Rwanda. Directed by Debs Gardner-Paterson, the film tells the story of three young Rwandan street kids who decide to head to…
Florida’s new incentives boost local production
New incentives recently introduced in Florida have already impacted on the state’s audiovisual production. While Florida has attracted theatrical feature productions like Marley & Me and Confessions of a Shopaholic in recent years, the state is an especially popular location…
Challenges of filming on-the-fly in Vietnam
Jerome Jourlait, of French production company Ze Monkiz Tribe, recently filmed a new project in Vietnam. Lotus Flower was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Ze Monkiz Tribe. Mr Jourlait shot the…
Travelers Insurance commercial shoots in South Africa
A new Travelers Insurance commercial has been filmed in South Africa. Watering Hole shows a collection of wild animals that would normally be eating each other co-existing peacefully on the plains of South Africa. Anne Flavin, an Account Manager at…
Global locations to catch the eye at Cannes Lions
Many advertising agencies have been defying the recession and continued sending crews out to exciting locations around the world to film their latest spots. Many of these will be showing at the Cannes Lions festival shortly. Ahead of our trip…
Filming on location in Cuba
The isolationist political regime of the last 50 years has made Cuba, the largest island of the Antilles, a timewarp of retro styling. As advertisers and filmmakers are finding, it’s also a cheap and efficient place to get your picture…
New Italian film doubles Tunisia for biblical Palestine
A new Italian-language film about the life of Mary Magdalene has doubled Tunisia for Palestine. Io Sono Con Te (The English title will be Let It Be) considered filming in Morocco but eventually settled on Tunisia. This was due to…
VW chooses India for Polo photo shoot
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has filmed on location in India for a photo shoot advertising its Polo car. The campaign will run alongside its television commercials that doubled South Africa for India. The photo shoot production shot in several locations…