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Filming with COLA-winning Location Manager S Todd Christensen
Todd was born in South Dakota and shifted to a career in film early on. He started working as an Assistant Location Manager in 1995 and then moved to New Mexico in 2006. He now works as a Teamster Local…
TLG and AFCI offer a Lounge as a production resource at the Cannes Film Festival
The Location Guide has joined forces with the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) to host a Lounge at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Partners opting to be part of the lounge will have a sustained presence alongside leading international…
Caviar delivers end-of-the-world terror on location in Prague for Mass Effect 3
Caviar has brough organised chaos to the streets of Prague in a new commercial for epic sci-fi video game Mass Effect 3. The spot is mostly live-action and shows carnage on the streets, as civilians take shelter from the horror…
Superman film Man of Steel helps make 2011 a success for Vancouver Island
New Superman film Man of Steel was one of the feature projects that helped deliver over CAD2 million for Vancouver Island in 2011. The island covers nearly 20,000 square miles and is a 20-minute flight from the city of Vancouver.…
Editor’s Weekly
This week we’ve covered commercials filmed in a bay off the coast of Miami, and in the California desert. Meanwhile, filming incentives in British Columbia drive business away from San Francisco and appeals have been made in Scotland and the…
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…
Pinewood Shepperton Studios reveals big increase in film revenue for 2011
Overall 2011 was a good year for Pinewood Shepperton, with the studios showing an impressive 24% rise in film revenue on the previous year. The healthy overall figure masks a slight dip in the second half of the year. The…
TV exec calls for location filming tax credits to boost Scotland's appeal
Scotland should offer its own specific filming tax breaks, a Scottish TV executive says. Alan Clements is Head of Content at STV and spoke this week at an Edinburgh conference, The Scotsman reports. He argued that filming tax breaks for…
Sri Lanka recovers from civil war to re-claim location filming appeal
Sri Lanka lies in the blue waters of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. It offers over a thousand miles of beautiful golden beaches fringed with coconut palms. It’s said to offer the best tea in the world…
Models ride furniture out to sea on location off Miami coast for Filmmaster
Biscayne Bay off the Miami coast was the filming location for the new commercial for Italian fashion brand Freddy. The Slounge Way is a mood piece showing models waking on floating furniture and exploring their surroundings as they drift towards…