Fiona and I travelled down to the Isles of Scilly the week before last in order to ascertain the practicalities of filming there.

On the 9th and 10th March our department hosted a Familiarisation Trip for 10 feature film, television drama and commercials Location Managers - all of whom were members of the Guild of Location Managers.

I have my own luxury mobile coffee business which is perfectly suited in providing delicious hot drinks and cold snacks on location shoots.

Hola from Seville!

I'm here on a fact-finding mission on behalf of (and subsidised by) the UK Film Council's national and regional screen agencies.  SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS EXPO (SILE); is the first major location trade fair in Europe, and this is its first year.

Fiona and I went down to Yeovil on Friday to visit Turn of the Screw on location at Brympton D'Evercy. South West Screen gave the production team help in prep with crewing and location finding so we were eager to find out how they were getting on.

Cathy Gremin and I were invited down to Poole last week for Sequel to Cannes, a networking event (cue sweaty palms and nervous laughter) held at the RNLI Lifeboat College designed to aid and assist film industry professionals and associates.

It has been a busy week for South West Screen Locations Team as we have now officially launched our Sustainable Filmmaking Guidelines!  We celebrated the launch with a screening of The Boat that Rocked at The Watershed followed by a Q & A with its producer Hilary Bevan Jones of Tightrope Productions.  Asking the

The second event in our green launch took place at the Arnolfini’s Hub centre last night.

After weeks of preparation, phone calls, meetings and recces it was finally time for Never Let Me Go to undertake their 3 day shoot in Clevedon and Weston-Super-Mare.  The Locations Team worked very closely with the location managers and North Somerset Council in order to make the three day shoot run as smoothly as possi

Fi and Harriet visit the set of Four Seasons

The BBC has today confirmed that Casualty will be moving from Bristol to the Cardiff area.

Ahhhh, what a night in Bournemouth!  An excellent event with enthusiastic and engaging students at Bounremouth Institute of Arts all geared up to make use of South West Screen (but you can see more about this on the events Blog) was followed by a lovely evening on the coast. 

The morning brought an excit

It was a grim foggy day that we headed out on the A4, armed with dubious maps and a flagon of coffee to take on the villages of East Dorset en route to Future Film Focus event in Bournemouth.  Tackling the wiggly hairpin turns under the guidance from Rachel Limb, our incredibly helpful tourism o