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Lori Balton first location professional accepted for Academy membership
Lori Balton has become the first location professional to be accepted as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the US. Balton is an industry veteran and has worked on productions including the Pirates of…
Filming for Top Gear USA closes Buffalo Skyway road in New York State
Top Gear USA has filmed on the Buffalo Skyway road in western New York State. Made by BBC Worldwide Productions, scenes for the American version of the popular UK motoring show involved time trials for three amphibious vehicles. “This is…
Hallmark TV filming finds challenges on location in Colorado
Hallmark Channel and production company Frontier Productions have faced some challenges finding suitable filming locations in Colorado for a new period miniseries. The team behind When Calls the Heart announced a location shoot in Telluride, south-west Colorado, a few weeks…
Shreveport crew training could boost filming in northern Louisiana
Shreveport in north-west Louisiana plans to launch more crew training programmes to help boost the region’s production industry. Louisiana is one of America’s main production hubs but filming tends to focus on New Orleans and state capital Baton Rouge in…
Empire Visual Effects to help boost New York location filming industry
New post-production company Empire Visual Effects is to be opened in Buffalo in Western New York in a move that could boost the state’s location filming industry. A 35% tax credit is available for projects that complete post-production work in…
Santa Clarita in California boosts location filming days by nearly 20%
Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles in California, boosted its location filming days by nearly 20% in the 2012/13 fiscal year. The city recorded 1,069 shoot days and local production spending rose nearly 25% on the previous year. “Santa…
Filming on location in Taiwan with the Taipei Film Commission
The Taipei Film Commission spearheads Taiwan’s burgeoning production industry. Taiwan lies east of the Chinese mainland and while the country already offers filming incentives, it wants to expand its international experience. Producers filming in Taipei can access incentive support from…
Wefilm continues Heineken Dropped campaign filming in Cambodia
Dutch production company Wefilm has continued Wieden+Kennedy’s Dropped campaign for Heineken by filming on location in Cambodia. Greek dancer Stavros was dropped in the Cambodian jungle with a giant rubber-duck boat for company and challenged to find his way home.…
Tempomedia films epic desert fantasy on Gran Canaria for soft drink Fanta
Tempomedia filmed on location in the sand dunes of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands west of Morocco to capture an epic desert fantasy for soft drink brand Fanta. Fanta: Official Sponsor of FANTAsy shows a princess in a desert…
Los Angeles promised City Hall film chief as TV pilot location filming falls
Los Angeles has been promised a film chief – or ‘czar’ – at City Hall to help tackle the city’s persistent runaway production problem. New figures from FilmLA have revealed a fall in the proportion of television pilots filmed on…