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Filming in Paris
Filming in Paris is not as easy as it may seem as the filming regulations in place are sometimes very different from those encountered in other major cities.It should be noted that the regulations in Paris are also different from…
Nicocorp films Parisian landmarks for LU commercial
A new commercial for LU biscuits features a number of Parisian landmarks including the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. Serviced by Nicocorp, the spot was largely filmed at two locations: a bakery in the fourteenth district of Paris…
France plans filming incentive change to keep Luc Besson movie in Paris
France is planning to amend part of its filming incentive laws to ensure Luc Besson’s big-budget movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets shoots in Paris. Besson’s film had initially been denied filming incentive support as a French…
The Location Guide prepares for Ile de France Location Expo in Paris
The Location Guide is a media partner at this year’s Ile de France Location Expo, which takes place in Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday this week (3 and 4 February). Over 80 exhibitors will showcase filming locations in the French…
London and Paris prepare for TV co-production exchange project
Television producers in London and Paris will take part in an exchange project later this month to encourage more TV co-productions and collaborations between the two cities. The week-long event involves Film London and the Ile de France Film Commission…
British crime film The Sweeney to be remade in Paris with Jean Reno
Nick Love’s 2012 British crime drama The Sweeney will be remade on location in Paris as The Squad with Jean Reno. The original was based on the classic British TV drama of the same name and starred Ray Winstone and…
The Bold and the Beautiful to film on location in Paris to mark 25th anniversary
Long-running US daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful will film episodes on location in Paris this week. The shoot will mark 25 years of the show being broadcast in the country on the France 2 network and comes only…
Amazon Studios orders new TV pilots for filming in Paris and Los Angeles
Amazon Studios has ordered two new TV pilots. The Cosmopolitans will focus on a group of young people living in Paris and will film on location in the French capital. Hand of God is a vigilante drama that will shoot…
Producer John Bernard: Paris movie incentives and filming on location
John Bernard started his career working on features in the Dordogne in south-west France, before learning his craft at Pinewood Studios in the UK. Now he runs Jake Productions in Monaco and its French partner Peninsula Film in Paris, and…
Ile de France Location Expo 2014 to take place in Paris in February
The 4th annual Ile de France Location Expo, run by the Ile de France Film Commission, will take place on 13 and 14 February 2014 in Paris at Les Docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design. More than 80…
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Directory (535)
Benetone Films
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Country: Poland
Covering: Poland, Czech Republic, France, UK, Portugal.FPS France
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Country: France
Covering: FranceNew Zealand Film Connection
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Country: New Zealand
Covering: New ZealandBerlin Production Service Company
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Country: Germany
Covering: Berlin and surrounding region, GermanyFamily Film
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Country: Romania
Covering: Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, HungaryGoodgate Productions
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Country: Spain
Covering: Spain, Portugal, South Of FranceFroggie Production
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Country: France
Covering: France, EuropeCZAR Amsterdam
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Country: Netherlands
Covering: The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, FranceAllingham Production
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Country: United Kingdom
Covering: UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Latvia, Faroe Islands, Greece, England, Scotland, Wales, IrelandEspe Prods
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Country: France
Covering: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, Czech Republic, Germany, Morocco
Locations (9)
Ile de France
Ile de France is one of the country’s 26 administrative regions and mostly comprises the metropolitan region of Paris. The potent sense of history is perhaps its biggest attribute and it’s a veritable goldmine of locations for filmmakers seeking stately…
Pays de la Loire, France
The Pays de la Loire region of north-west France is perhaps best known for the Loire Valley, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site for ten years. The countryside offers gently rolling hills and vineyards, as well as historical…
Filming in West Provence, France
West Provence (or Ouest Provence) is part of south-eastern France situated between Marseilles – the regional production hub – and Arles. Producers can find sunny landscapes ranging from ancient historic villages through to modern port infrastructure on the Mediterranean coastline.…
Filming on location in Corsica
The French island of Corsica is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, 170km off the French mainland, and is home to around 300,000 people. Bastia in the north of the island offers urban, classical and baroque architecture, while Porto-Vecchio on the…
Filming on location in French Guiana
French Guiana is on the north-east coast of South America near the equator, nestled between Brazil and Suriname. As the name suggests it remains an overseas French territory and geographically it’s dominated by the vast rainforests of the Amazonia National…
Filming on location in Ontario, Canada
Ontario is in central Canada and at more than a million square miles is larger than Spain and France combined. Despite the fact that Canada is geographically north of the US, Ontario’s southernmost point is on the same latitude as…
France
Film France recently boosted France’s Tax Rebate for International Productions (TRIP). The TRIP has now increased from 20% to 30%. In accordance with the change, the per-production cap will rise dramatically from EUR20 million to EUR30 million. The increased filming incentive has…
French Polynesia
French Polynesia has been playing host to the film industry since the 1930s. In recent years it has been more favoured by documentary and commercial productions but still sees at least one feature a year. Located over 5,000 kilometres away…
Taiwan
Martin Scorsese shot in Taiwan for his period drama Silence. He was reportedly alerted to Taiwan’s location filming possibilities by fellow filmmaker Ang Lee. Silence was supported by Taipei City Government and Taipei Film Commission. Taipei got a recent profile…
Incentives (6)
TRIP
St Martin, as a oversees French territory means productions are eligible for France's national tax incentive scheme - details of which are available in the French incentive listing.
Rhone Alpes Film Fund
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (PACA): feature film production fund
The amount of aid: - for writing screenplays and for development it is limited to €5,000. - for research it is limited to €15,000. - for production it is limited to €152,000 for feature films, €50,000 for feature-length documentaries, and…
Ile de France: The Support Fund for Technical Cinematographic and Audiovisual Industries of the Ile de France Region
France: Tax Rebate for International Productions (TRIP)
Rebate on labour cost in French overseas territories.
Brazil: Audiovisual Act
Co-production funds are available to Brazilian production companies for feature films, documentaries and TV. Brazil has co-production treaties with Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia,…