I worked in various jobs in the natural resources field after I graduated from college. That eventually led to a job as a realty specialist for the Kootenai National Forest based in the small logging town of Libby, Montana. Steven Spielberg came to the area to make the firefighting movie Always in 1989 and one of my assignments was to work on the permit for the shoot.
Would we be right in saying that when it comes to film production communications we can break the subject down into two parts – people on the move using mobile communications and office-based secure wireless communications?
In 1977, when I was 12 years old, I saw the first Star Wars film. I remember leaving the cinema in a state of (pleasant) shock. I just wanted to see the film again and ended up watching it four times in the following weeks. I have always loved to see films at the cinema but I obviously had no idea in 1977 what my future had in store for me. I just knew that I wanted a job that I loved and wanted to be somewhere where they made these kinds of films.
When you are looking at which production service company to go with in Latin America, our name will come up. We get asked the question "Why La Casa Films & Stills?” We can answer this in two ways.
TLG talks to Lyall Gardiner, location manager and founder of FStop Location Services, about what makes the Middle East, and particularly the UAE, an increasingly attractive filming destination.
Working at Netflix is unlike any other production executive job I’ve ever had. The company's structure is different to other studios and networks in that we have one large production department to handle all the different types of content we produce. Be it series, films, documentaries, comedy specials or non-English language series, we handle the lot.
Co-Chair of the International Committee of the PGA since April of this year, Mashayekh talks to TLG about his journey from law to the very heart of the film industry and working with industry legends Vanessa Redgrave and Branko Lustig.
Snow is everywhere in Chile. You can be in a snowy filming location within one hour of Chile's capital, Santiago. You could be in the Himalayas, Scandinavia or, of course, Chile itself.