Academy Films headed to Lake Wakatipu on New Zealand’s South Island to film a new spot for mobile provider Vodafone. Lake shows a woman relaxing on a jetty in warm sunshine as clear water laps around her and she ignores the loud vibrate of her phone.
Warner Bros will invest in the UK’s next generation of skilled film crew by recruiting trainees. The company, which owns Leavesden Studios outside London, will recruit two trainees through Creative Skillset on each film it shoots in the UK.
Luis entered the film industry in 1993 as a runner at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry and a little less than ten years later became an independent producer. In 2007 he set up Shoot Cuba with his partner Mike Barker.
Thomas Thomas Films shot locations around the world for the new Blackberry commercial Keep Moving. The spot features a series of snappily-edited vignettes showing individuals in profile as they move through their daily adventures with the help of the Blackberry Z10.
[slideshow id=359]Alessandra Bergero and her brother Raffaele set up the Italian Riviera Film Commission in 1998. The commission is based in north-west Italy near the French Cote d’Azur and promotes the region as a production hub.
Stink pitched superhero Captain Ice against a lava monster on the streets of Montevideo in Uruguay for chewing gum brand Vigorsol. The spot shows the daring superhero stocking up on supplies of the gum to help fuel his fresh breath and defeat the giant beastie.
New York may be targeting NBC’s flagship Tonight Show with a new filming incentive designed to attract established TV programmes to the Empire State. The Tonight Show has been based in Los Angeles since the early 1970s but a major reformat could mean the show switches to New York.
Hungary doubled for Croatia, Italy and England in the BBC’s TV movie adaptation of classic Hitchcock drama The Lady Vanishes. The story focuses on a young socialite struggling with a mysterious disappearance on board a train during a trip in the Balkans.
Radical Media used David Bowie’s lyrics from Sound and Vision to stage the distinctive Holi festival on location in Jaipur in northern India. The scenes are the finale of a new spot promoting the Sony Xperia Z smartphone as two tourists snap the festival’s vivid colours.
Paris-based production house Irene rallied Roman soldiers in Morocco for a new spot promoting the Livebox Play TV decoder from Orange. Director Xavier Giannoli’s ad features a TV viewer interrupting a Roman leader’s battle cry in a remote desert.