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Filming on location around the world with Producer Sherri Levy
Sherri began her career in production at Ogilvy & Mather nearly 20 years ago. She knew Ogilvy ECD Bill Hamilton, who helped Sherri work out that production was where she wanted to be. She spent six years at Ogilvy, followed…
Maryland location filming threatened with state incentive delay
Maryland’s filming industries are concerned about a delay in plans to extend and improve the state’s filming incentive. The state’s budget is in disarray and local filming professionals are worried delays in updating the incentive will threaten the industry’s future.…
Filming Uruguay with Lucila Bortagaray of the Uruguay Film Commission
Lucila has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and worked as a freelance Producer and Location Scout on all manner of media for nine years until 2009. She then became head of the Uruguay Film Commission & Promotion Office, which was…
Filming on location in Denmark with Location Manager Soren Dahl
Soren’s original plan was to work in film marketing. He entered the industry working as an intern for a production company and eight years later he’s now working as a Location Scout/Manager. He comments: “I love my job very much…
Plans for Barbados Film Commission and incentives up for discussion
Plans are underway to develop a dedicated film commission in Barbados, along with location filming incentives. Ideas are due to be discussed today (13th April 2012) at the CaribbeanTales Symposium that will take place at the Island Inn Resort in…
Battleship delivers aliens and naval carnage on location in Hawaii
Filmmaker Peter Berg spent months filming off the Hawaiian coast on a series of floating sets for his big-budget studio movie Battleship. Loosely tied to the classic board game, the film tells the story of a US naval crew fighting…
Logan finds Heaven and Hell on location in Prague for Jim Beam
Production company Logan has created spaces suggestive of Heaven and Hell on location in Prague for its new Jim Beam commercial. The spot focuses on the brand’s Devil’s Cut bourbon as a man is drawn down into a dark and…
Location filming on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films to help boost Queenstown
Queenstown in New Zealand’s South Island is already a well-known global filming location, but production on Peter Jackson’s two hobbit films will boost its profile still further. A new report from Destination Queenstown reveals the films could help deliver NZD1…
Pittsburgh studio head praises state support of location filming incentive
The head of Pittsburgh facility 31st Street Studios has praised the Governor of Pennsylvania for supporting the state location filming incentive through to 2013. Christopher Breakwell runs the studio facility, which offers nearly a dozen sound stages, the largest of…
Filming on location in Connecticut with Mark Dixon
Mark has been based at the Connecticut Film (CT) Office since 2000. Before joining the film office he spent nearly 15 years in the locations department on various feature films and TV commercials. Tell me about the region that you…