Airing on Amazon Prime, Life’s Rewards is produced by Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, St. Pete/Clearwater Film Commission and Visit Florida and marks the first time an original scripted series has been developed by a destination marketing organisation for a streaming service.
California state governor Gavin Newsom has announced a USD30 million boost to the film and television tax credits as part of a USD100 billion "California Roars Back Plan". The funding is thanks to California's USD100 billion budget surplus. Housing, drought and water infrastructure are other areas the plan is tackling with large financial investment.
The shootout had a nature theme, following up after the Isolation Edition in 2020. Competing companies included Agile Films, Caviar, Dog Eat Dog, Familia, Gear Room, Groundglass, Iris Worldwide, The Lift, Mullen Lowe, Pitch and Sync, Presence, Prodigious, The Producers, Pulse Films and Yolafilmo.
The aristocratic comedy about love and friendship by Nancy Mitford has been adapted into a 3 x 60 minute drama for the BBC. The series was one of the first high-end dramas to begin filming after lockdown and shot in both the UK and Paris, France.
Based on journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 2020 Academy Award Best Picture winner tells the story of creativity, resilience and generosity of those that live on the road in the American West. Director Chloe Zhao also won Best Director at the awards.
Margrete – Queen of the North, one of the first 2020 pandemic shoots In 2021 film projects in the Czech Republic will reach a level not seen since 2019, a record breaking year for the Czech audiovisual industry. Many that make up the total are foreign audiovisual projects including large projects for Amazon, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, ZDF and Sky.
BBC dramas Showtrial, The Girl Before and Chloe, as well as The Long Call for ITV started rolling cameras in Bristol in April. All four dramas will feature Bristol locations and The Long Call will use the city as a base for on location filming on the North Devon Coast.
We’re so sad to write that our inspirational and wonderful colleague Sue Hayes has passed away.