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Image Now Films shoots K2 doc on location in Switzerland and Pakistan
Filmmaker Nick Ryan, of Dublin-based Image Now Films, has shot a documentary about mountain peak K2 on location in Switzerland and Pakistan. The Summit focuses on the peak's worst disaster when an ice collapse killed 11 climbers on a single…
Ireland’s Section 481 location filming tax incentive extended to 2020
Ireland’s location filming incentive programme has been extended through to 2020. The Section 481 Film Tax Relief Scheme will become a tax credit model from 2016, a change which might bring other enhancements too. Jimmy Deenihan TD is Minister for…
Slovenia hosts inaugural Bollywood location filming project
Slovenia in central Europe is being used as a Bollywood filming location for the first time. Filmmaker VV Vinayak has brought his Telugu-language feature film Nayak to three of the country’s most eye-catching locales. The Postojna Caves in western Slovenia,…
Dublin stars in location shoot for big-budget Bollywood film with Salman Khan
Dublin is set to star in the big-budget Bollywood film Ek Tha Tiger (Once There Was A Tiger) when the movie opens in mid-August 2012. Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif star and it becomes the latest in a series of…
Irish Government begins consultation on location filming incentive
A consultation has begun on the future of Ireland’s national location filming incentive. Known as Section 481, the programme is scheduled to expire in 2015 so its impact over the past six years will be assessed over the coming months…
Media hub designed to boost international location filming in Cork in Ireland
Two separate film organisations have joined forces in a bid to boost the local industry in County Cork, southern Ireland. The Gunpowder Mills Centre just outside the city of Cork is home to the new media hub that could attract…
Ireland and South Africa sign location filming co-production deal in Cannes
Ireland and South Africa have signed a location filming co-production deal at the Cannes Film Festival. The agreement will mean each country will benefit from the other’s filming incentives and both will be aspiring for more productions of the scale…
Ireland faces stiff TV location filming competition from UK
Ireland will face stiff competition from the UK if, as expected, the British Government announces a TV filming incentive this week. Spending on TV production in Ireland on shows like Camelot has outstripped the film industry in recent years, but…
UK Government called on to boost high-end TV with new filming incentives
The UK Government is being called on to boost British TV production by launching filming incentives similar to what’s already available for features. Producers say the UK is losing ‘cinematic’ TV like The Tudors to countries such as Ireland and…
Filming on the Isle of Man with Hilary Dugdale
Hilary manages Isle of Man Film, a regional Government agency. She is tasked with encouraging film production, training and promotion of the industry on the Island in partnership with leading UK producer and distributor CinemaNX. Local film production is financed…