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    Manhattan at Night From West Chelsea

    The photos below were made from a private space in the Starrett - Lehigh Building at 601 West 26th Street in the neighborhood known as West Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, NY looking uptown and (in the panorama below) displaying, from the left (west) the Hudson River and New Jersey cross-town to right (east), the Empire State Building on the edge of the frame.

    ALL location scouts LOVE the Manhattan skyline! :)

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    County wants tax incentives for filmmakers - South Bergenite

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    Jon Baird in hunt for Aberdeenshire film location - Aberdeen Evening Express

    A film director from the Northeast is considering using his home-ground for his next project. Jon Baird, originally from Peterhead, is in talks over…

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    Location Scouting Multimedia at MeFeedia

    Follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/4hlrx4. MeFeedia has aggregated a collection of online videos on the search term “location scout“.

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    ATTN - International Crews: Get Your Production Insurance in Order!

    If you are a foreign film / photo production planning to work on location in the United States and / or more specifically, in the New York City area, you may or may not be aware that use of just about any private property, as well as many public venues and towns / municipalities (New York City included, for film / video) as a location will require you to provide proof of commercial liability insurance providing coverage of at least $2m US in the form of a certificate of insurance and naming same (property owner / venue / town or municipality) third-party additionally insured. These or similar conditions apply to many gear / equipment rental agreements as well.

    Furthermore, any insurance you may have in your home country must provide coverage abroad and that coverage must be recognized and accepted by all parties involved in the United States.

    Fear not, there are many insurance brokers nationwide in the U.S. that offer affordable short-term production insurance packages. The insurance company I usually work with was charging about $650 for a 14 day package last time I spoke with them.

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    Taipei promotes local film industry - Taipei Times

    Taipei City’s Cultural Affairs Department (CAD), which established a film commission in January to encourage cooperation with the film industry,

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    Hollywood prizes reputation as `film-friendly city' - MiamiHerald.com

    Hollywood is considered a very film-friendly city, said Elizabeth Wentworth, vice president of the Film Commission of the Broward Alliance.

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    Jamaica great for films, bad for financing - Jamaica Gleaner

    Jamaica is a premier location for movies, but getting funding seems to be difficult for some local filmmakers.

    …needed to do more to help the film industry. And, especially when compared to the United States, Saulter said Jamaica was a cheaper location to make films.


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    Paul Newman: a life in film, cars and charity - guardian.co.uk

    the Tom Hanks' film Road to Perdition, was suited to his talents. It was a sprawling story, a complex role and a huge box office and critical success.
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    My shipwright friend Woody was working as technical hand on a film they were shooting up outside of Damariscotta Maine, a place they call New Harbor. To some location scout, it looked like the North Carolina setting of the movie they were filming, Message in a Bottle. (They eventually moved production to Wilmington NC.)

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    Movie stars make stop in St. Mary for new film - Great Falls Tribune

    The Montana Film Office has worked with the production team since December 2007 to bring the film to the state. Film Office staffer John Ansotegui worked with the National Park Service and the production company location manager, Alasdair Boyd, to choose the site for the shoot. …

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    Reel Jersey Film Festival Part Dieux

    Reel Jersey Film Festival Part Dieux | Film Festival Gems

    Saturday September 27 was a sort of dreary day weather-wise, so it was a perfect day for trying to pack in seeing as many film festival films as possible.

    I managed to see four films on Saturday at the Reel Jersey Film Festival (in the order I saw them):

    1. New Jersey - The Movie (trailer) | See All Productions | Stephen R. Chernoski, Director
    2. My Life As An UnderDog (trailer) | Art of Madness | Boris Gavrilovic, Director | IMDB
    3. Lisa Loeb - Songwriting “Just Like You” (trailer) | Valenti Vision Films | Joe Valenti, Director | IMDB
    4. The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman | Watch this entire film in three parts! | Valenti Vision Films | Joe Valenti, Director | IMDB

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    Story of the Scene: ‘Chariots of Fire’, Hugh Hudson (1981) - The Independent

    When location manager Iain Smith turned up on the beach at St Andrews at 5am in the morning, he assumed the shoot would go smoothly this time round. The opening shot for Chariots of Fire showed the athletes in training, running through the sea. Since …

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    Reel Jersey Film Festival: WeirdNJ Party / Midnight Movie: The Blood Shed

    Reel Jersey Film Festival: WeirdNJ Party / Midnight Movie: The Blood Shed

    I got to the party at Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ around 10:30 pm; fortunately, there was still plenty of “Joisey-cuisine” - icy cold Busch beer and White Castle burgers left to drink and eat!

    While The Coffin Daggers got ready for their set, the screen in the grand old Rivoli Theater played scenes from a very diverse variety of b-movie horror and soft-core 60’s nudie flicks (just like a midnite movie ;) At around 11:15pm The Coffin Daggers played an excellent set of hard-driving and loud surf rock instrumentals, to a horror muxvid loop playing above them, after which the overweight drag couple in matching Bo-Peep-hybrid outfits (I didn’t see any shepherd’s canes ;) …or sheep, for that matter, but maybe that’s a good thing! ;) … or maybe they were sposed to be the twins from The Shining? …dunno… ) joined Mark and Mark from WeirdNJ onstage for the raffle drawing. I didn’t win - oh well…

    The cast from The Blood Shed took the stage, Mark introduced the film and we were all off and running! (to the comfort of ulphostered theater lounge seats in the Rivoli, that is…)

    The Blood Shed is classic Alan Rowe Kelly fare falling somewhere btn the b-movie flicks, John Waters, John Carpenter and Hammer Films (all of who I am sure must be influences for Alan); toss in Alan’s own Jersey je nais se qua… ;) Alan, of course, plays one of the lead characters, the burly “child”, Beeftina Bullion as well as having directed and produced. The whole thing’s just a mad, gory hoot!

    I didn’t get a chance to speak with Alan, tho I hope to sometime this weekend at the festival. I did have the wonderful opportunity to meet Alan several years ago at the premiere of I’ll Bury You Tomorrow at the Darress Theater in Boonton, NJ.

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    Pusan Int'l Film Festival - Hollywood Reporter

    "The commission could help by developing broad investment channels," says Kang Han-seop, chairman of the Korean Film Commission.


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    Film producer has plan to bring big-budget movies to NC - StarNewsOnline.com

    To manage this state-wide stage system effectively, he said, the State Film Office would need to oversee the stages moreso than our regional film

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    Outer Banks home plays starring role in new film (The Virginian-Pilot)

    RODANTHE, N.C. When the movie crew for “Nights in Rodanthe” renovated the house called “Serendipity” for its big screen appearance, nasty storm clouds threatened.

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    'Ugly' trend hitting Hollywood where it lives - Los Angeles Times

    Every state in the union (and more than one city) has its own film commission, tasked with bringing home a slice of the Hollywood bacon.


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    Production update: Korea - Variety

    The most aggressive region in Korea is Gyeonggi Province through its Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency, launched in 2004, and the Gyeonggi Film Commission in 2005. Those bodies are behind the construction of a huge complex dubbed “Hallyu-wood,” (hallyu being the term used for “Korean wave” of entertainment) while joining venture capital funds to raise coin for films. Their programs range from the small — renting expensive software to small CG and game production companies — to the large — the Gyeonggi Location Incentive offers cash; this year two films have nabbed $50,000 each.

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    Spike Lee hopes his Miracle launches a film trend - Malaysia Star

    Miracle was shot last fall, mostly on location in Tuscany, and in the fabled Cinecitta Studios in Rome - "a studio built by Mussolini," Lee notes with no

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    Vikram Bhatt returns to Yorkshire for UK premiere of 1920 - The Asian News

    Said: Sally Joynson, Chief Executive at Screen Yorkshire: "Promoting the region as a film location across the globe is at the heart of our work to ensure

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    The movie and TV shooting locations near you - Entertainment Weekly

    USA Today has a fun list of which movies and TV shows have been shot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It’s a good reminder that you don’t necessarily have to live in Los Angeles or Manhattan to wake up and find a film crew shooting outside your front door. Nor do you have to live near a famous landmark, like Mount Rushmore (pictured, in North by Northwest).

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    Local filmmaker will show work at festival - Colts Neck News Transcript

    “I just love shooting films in New Jersey. I always try to film here since you have so much control over the location. In New York you have to deal with hassles like parking and unwanted noise. I’ve used Point Pleasant, Brick, and even George Washington’s old house in Morristown as locations for filming,” Valenti said.

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    Execs scout Lowell locales for Ward flick - Lowell Sun

    LOWELL — The Fighter, the long-anticipated movie chronicling local boxing legend Micky Ward’s life, is inching closer to becoming reality. Scouts for Paramount Studios spent part of the weekend in Lowell, visiting sites central to the film’s plot …

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    Metro Detroit cities cutting red tape for moviemakers - Detroit Free Press

    The Michigan Film Office estimates studios have spent $400 million since April on hotel rooms, crew salaries, equipment and other location expenses.

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    Unexplored Finnish locales luring Indian film fraternity - Times of India

    Also, the Finnish government has set up a film commission to lure film fraternity of this country. Scenic beauty of Finland makes it an apt destination for

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    Nikonians: Location Scouting Podcast

    The Nikonians On Location #32 - Location Scouting

    Show Notes: September 01, 2008 | Martin covers preparing for shoots - in particular looking for suitable locations, a task which can make you a lot more productive and efficient when you are shooting with assistants, models and other photographers.

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    Film-Friendly Paso Robles, CA

    Paso Robles Press | Top Stories | Film industry officials tour Paso?Robles locations | Posted: Monday, Sep 15th, 2008 | Josh Petray 9-16-08

    Los Angeles-based location scout Stuart Raven Barter said the greatest appeal of Paso Robles is that, “It’s a it’s a little bit out of Los Angeles and yet not too far away; it has a lot of small town character with some appealing new development yet some traditional small town characteristic; [a] nice old downtown area that’s been taken care of and even sort of brought up to date in certain areas. It still has a lot of character buildings.”

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    Hooray for locations outside Hollywood - USA Today

    Shreveport has attracted at least 18 projects in 2008, totaling more than $200 million in production budgets, and more than 80% of that will likely be spent in Louisiana, according to estimates from the state’s Office of Entertainment Industry Development.

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    Mass Film Office bringing the stars to the area - The Daily News of Newburyport

    To determine shooting locations, the office works with the movie’s location scout.

    “Eventually, they’ll settle on a handful of locations, then the director will come out and spend a day or two in the state, going to those places,” he said. “If they like what they see in person, that’s when they make their final decision.”

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