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Berlinale announces 2024 competition titles
The official films in competition for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival have been announced. Opening with Tim Mielant’s Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, the lineup includes La Cocina from Mexican director Alonzo Ruizpalacious and From Hilde With Love…
Supply 2 Location to expand operations in NEOM
UK based Supply 2 Location (S2L), announced yesterday their new international division and first regional expansion into NEOM, Saudi Arabia in early 2024. Building on their UK based regional depots, S2L’s Middle Eastern expansion solidifies its international presence, and improves…
Land of Open Space: This is Namibia...
After pulling our bags across the hot tarmac to the Windhoek Air Terminal, we meet Ma Fiina, a woman with a generous smile and IMMIGRATION emblazoned across her back on a neon yellow vest. She whisks us through security and…
Arizona launches biggest incentive yet
The Arizona government has launched the Arizona Motion Picture Production Programme. It is the state’s largest annual film and television tax incentive to date. The legislature was passed in June 2022, but Governor Doug Ducey allowed the bill to become…
Netflix commits USD1 million for African training scholarships
A new scholarship has been created for Sub-Saharan Africa’s next generation of storytellers. The Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund (CESFC) will generate new opportunities for film and TV students across the continent. This financial support draws from the media conglomerate’s…
Production excellence in complicated times: an interview with Pavla Burgetova Callegari
As national rules fluctuate and transform rapidly in the midst of lockdowns and re-openings, it really does pay for filmmakers to have strong connections in a variety of locations across the globe. We caught up with executive producer Pavla Burgetova…
Justin Lin brings Fast and Furious 9 action to Edinburgh, Scotland and Tblisi, Georgia
The newly released trailer shows the action thriller on location in scenes that hurtle from London to Tokyo, Central America and Edinburgh. Justin Lin returns as director having helmed the third, fourth, fifth and sixth chapters and saw the franchise…
Mad Max prequel Furiosa to be biggest film ever made in Australia
Filming is set to begin in New South Wales in June. Titled Furiosa, the film is expected to bring in around AUD350 million to the New South Wales Economy and become the largest shoot in Australian history.