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Papamichael shoots in Greece
World renowned cinematographer Phaedon Papamichael (3:10 to Yuma, The Pursuit of Happyness) is directing his first feature. Arcadia Lost has started filming in Greece and will star Oscar nominated actor Nick Nolte. The film will take full advantage of Greece’s…
Scotland backs production companies
Scottish Screen has selected five production companies to receive financing through their Slate Fund. The fund originally intended to offer four companies a share of GBP400,000. The investment in project development now stands at GBP1.1 million over a two year…
German Federal Film Fund gets extension
The German Government is to extend the DFFF (German Federal Film Fund ) for a further three years from 2010 to 2012. It will have an annual budget of EUR60m. The fund was launched at the beginning of last year…
Filming the Beijing Olympics
There is much consensus among local industry experts that the Beijing Olympics have already had an impact on the work rate of local production and service companies. Industry professionals from across the world have become more focused on China as…
Italian industry threaten boycott over film tax credits
Leading film industry bodies in Italy are threatening to pull Italian entries to the Venice, Rome and Turin film festivals if the country's new right-wing government abolishes tax credits promised in the 2008 national budget. The threat was including in…
Michigan - new film incentive package signed
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today signed into law legislation designed to grow the film industry in Michigan, setting the stage for hundreds of millions of dollars in private investment that will create jobs in the state. The legislation was proposed…
Alaska Senate pass incentive
SB230 passed the Alaska Senate on Tuesday, March 4th. The new bill, which now goes to the Alaska House, will provide a 30% tax credit for all labor (with a proposed $2M hire cap), an additional 10% for Alaska labor,…
Northern Ireland increases benefit limit by GBP200000
Northern Ireland Screen Fund will invest between £150,000 and £800,000 up to a ceiling of 25% of the overall project costs. The fund offers production funding, in the form of a repayable loan, for a limited number of feature films…
Irish production fund gets USD2.8 million injection
To further encourage foreign film & TV production companies to shoot in Ireland, the Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, Seamus Brennan has committed an aditional $2.8 million for the Irish Film Board (IFB). Productions that have benefitted from the…
International productions benefit from new German fund
International co-productions filming in Germany have got over half of the USD28 million allocated by the new German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) in the initial six months of operation. Project manager Christine Berg explained that USD16.3 million had been awarded…