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Filming in Tenerife with the film commission’s Concha Diaz
Concha has been enthusiastically co-ordinating the Tenerife Film Commission since summer 2005 when she returned to her native Canary Island after spending ten years abroad studying and working in the media.“It is a wonderful and demanding job where I am…
Cape Film Commission’s Denis Lillie to address filming location concerns
The Cape Film Commission (CFC) in South Africa will be holding a meeting next week to discuss concerns about filming locations and permitting raised by South Africa’s Commercial Producers Association (CPA) and the South African Association of Stills Producers (SAASP).…
Japanese feature Tamatama films on location in Cork in western Ireland
A Japanese production team went to Cork in western Ireland recently to film a Japanese-language feature. Tamatama (By Chance) was filmed in the village of Eyeries on the Beara Peninsula of West Cork and is about a lost Japanese girl…
Editor’s Weekly
In the week marking the first anniversary of our new website being launched, the focus is once again on filming incentives in the US, while specific geographic needs have resulted in the new Mad Max sequel relocating from Australia. In…
Location Manager Nancy Haecker talks COLAs and House MD
Nancy Haecker is Location Manager on hit TV show House MD. This year she won a gong for Location Manager of the Year in episodic TV at the 2011 California On-Location Awards, organised by Film Liaisons in California, Statewide, and…
Going green: Delivering eco-friendly values on-location
I knew the risk I was taking when I decided to change the name and nature of my thriving production company, Tidal Wave Productions, in 2009 and set up Green Shoot Films, an eco-friendly film company. The industry was at…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we’ve covered features filmed in Moscow and Dublin. In the US Spielberg’s long-time producer, Kathleen Kennedy, has been talking about the director’s ongoing Lincoln shoot in Virginia, while Alaskans debate the state of their filming incentive. Elsewhere, Chivas…
Sam Mendes’ Bond film Skyfall shoot cancels Duntrune Castle location filming
Sam Mendes’ Bond film Skyfall has abruptly cancelled plans to film at Duntrune Castle in western Scotland. The 800-year-old historic home is situated in an isolated spot in Lochgilphead in Argyll and was set for a February 2012 shoot, but…
Filming on location in Africa - be prepared to be unprepared
The prospect of filming in Africa generally sends Production Managers into paroxysms of dread and Co-ordinators into deep despair, but I love it and consider it the best place to film in the world. With every shoot there will be…
Chivas quartet gets lost in the wilderness on location in Chile’s Atacama Desert
Blended scotch whisky brand Chivas Regal has sent four male friends into the desert for new short Here’s to Big Bear. The film - one of two made for the brand - shows the friends in a bar recalling the…