Features & Interviews

Our Zoom interview series introduces viewers to independent producers, directors, location scouts, studio executives and North American film commissions. Learn the backstories, trends and opportunities leaders envision in the destination film business.

Features

Sustainable Filming: Eco-Friendly Film Production

Sustainable Filming: Eco-Friendly Film Production

From using renewable energy in film production to reusing and recycling, these eco-friendly practices are making a big difference Implementing sustainable filming practices into your next movie or television show can significantly and immediately impact a planet that...

Eyes of a Location Scout

Location Scout and Manager Leann Emmert

Location Scout and Manager Leann Emmert

Leann Emmert discusses the difficulties of working internationally, factoring wildlife while filming and challenges the lack of accolades that location managers receive at the Academy Awards.

Location Manager Ilt Jones

Location Manager Ilt Jones

“Shutting down streets and blowing things up, that’s my specialty,” says Ilt Jones. Now retired, Jones was a pivotal key in the making of movies such as Inception, Iron Man 3, Kong: Skull Island, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Transformers, and so many more household names.

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