FILM & COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION Dec 2009

Ad Wood was founded in 2001 by a group of people determined to use their creativity and film-making skills to make an impact on the Czech advertising market. Shooting with skilled directors and professional crews, the company has since produced a number of award-winning TV commercials and brand campaigns for business clients and charitable foundations.

Summer 2009 saw a successful collaboration with Danone on two commercial projects, Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech starring as the face of the Czech Savings Bank, and director Kevin Fitzgerald shooting a playful commercial for Vodafone.

The rest of the year has been dedicated to documentary work. In collaboration with HBO, Adwood co-produced a bold project looking at the sado-masochism community in the Czech Republic. The programme is due to be aired at the end of the year.

Altana Films is a full service production company located in Buenos Aires.
Committed to providing excellence in film production support, and with 16 years of experience, Altana aims to understand the needs of every project, responding quickly and proactively while seeking clients' full satisfaction.

Most of the company's projects are shot in Buenos Aires. In architectural terms the city is wonderfully cosmopolitan, with echoes of Paris, Madrid, New York, Barcelona and more to be found downtown and on the outskirts. With Patagonia, glaciers, waterfalls, snowy European-style Alps and lakes to the south, jungle and Mexican landscapes to the north, Argentina offers a location for every production.

A huge ethnic diversity makes the country one of the most convenient locations in the world to cast talent. Compared with other countries in the southern hemisphere, Argentina offers some of the most attractive production alternatives and cost effective solutions.

Clients: @radical.media, Aero Film, Anonymous Content, Backyard, Biscuit Filmworks, Crossroads Films, DNA, Epoch Films, Go Film, Great Guns, HKM, HSI, Independent, Knucklehead, Lost Highway Films, MJZ, Park Pictures, Partizan, Prologue, Rock Fight, RSA, Smuggler, Sneezing Tree, Steam Films, Stick + Stones, Stink, Story, The Artists Company, The Directors Bureau, Tool of North America, Villains, Wanda Productions...

Aproductions is a full service company that offers production services for foreign and national companies, directors and photographers, alongside art buying advice for clients and ad agencies. It also runs its own studios and equipment hire facilities.

With different branches in Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands, Aproductions offers full production services all over Spain and Portugal alongside a locations database containing more than 200,000 pictures.

The company recently added prestigious directors Eugenio Recuenco and Miquel Navarro to its portfolio. Eugenio has worked for clients including L'Oreal, Loewe, Nina Ricci, Vanderbilt, GQ and Ferrero Rocher, while Miquel has worked for Marie Claire, The Spanish Government, Repsol and Telefonica.

Aproductions also represents directors including filmmaker and script writer Enrique Urbizu, Héctor Gómez Rioja, Nacho Sarrais, Ale Burset, Yago Garbizu, and the high speed production experts Losito&Losito.

Beepium Production is a full service production house established in 2005 with the ambition to apply its EU experience to productions in Serbia and other former Yugoslav countries.

Based in Belgrade, Beepium provides production services all across Serbia as well as in Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo.

The company specialises in TV commercials, photo projects, music videos and short films and has so far provided film and photo production services for clients from the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Israel and Romania.

BossaNovaFilms wraps up 2009 with significant achievements.

The production company produced a big advertising campaign with 23 commercials promoting the expansion of Sao Paulo's transportation system, 'Expansao Sao Paulo: Metro/CPTM'.

It also completed three different TV show seasons, including 'Harmonize', a 13-part programme that blends special guests with music, gastronomy and beer.

Branded entertainment projects included the second season for Nokia's 'Njornadas2', Seda's 'Entrelaçadas', and recently a 14-episode series for Johnson & Johnson's 'Toque de Mae'.

BossaNovaFilms also signed important international co-production deals for some great projects: a Portuguese co-production for the documentary 'Cresci na Mangueira' (Grew up in Mangueira), the development of the documentary 'Tropicalia' with US and UK companies, and the feature film 'Rio, I Love You' (Rio, Eu Te Amo), from the 'Cities of Love' series created by Ever So Close.

A huge trans-media digital strategy for 'Rio, I Love You' is currently being developed by the company's newly launched interactive division. 2010 promises to be very busy year indeed.

Dirty Dawg Films is a full service production company based in New York City with offices in Atlanta, Munich and soon Los Angeles. 

The company specialises in producing music videos, TV commercials and web shorts while providing talent from the general public all the way to celebrity endorsements.

Their producers have vast knowledge of consulting, cost estimates and budget control, location scouting, securing permits, vendors, visas and booking travel arrangements. Basically, the company handles all necessary details from concept to reality.

Dirty Dawg Films also represents directors. Check out the website to see their reels.

Inaugurated in 2006, El Niño is a production company representing over 25 directors working in music videos, internet advertising, film, animation and graphic design.

In its three years of operation El Niño has been an anthill of new young talents, with names including Jonas & Francois, Megaforce, So Me, Handz, Borntofilm, Eva Husson and Camille Vivier already showing great promise.

El Niño ranks 8th in the production hit parade of CB News and is internationally recognised for its clips by the American, English and Japanese press.

Award-winning director Christian Aeby founded Hamburg-based production company Glass Films in 1991. He remains the sole director to be represented by Glass.

"As a small company it is easier to focus on quality - it's more affordable to wait for good boards. This has always been my credo, and these days it is relevant more than ever."

Clients include Mercedes-Benz, BMW, VW, Skoda, SEAT, IKEA, AXA, FAZ, Baden-Württhemberg, Bank Austria, Raiffeisen Bank, Lotto, Motorola, Siemens, Smart and Swiss Airlines.

"JOTZ! produces films that lead to clicks."

Located in the centre of Schanzenviertel, Hamburg's creative cluster, the JOTZ! team turns concepts for brands like OBI, Panasonic, Nike, Ritter Sport, AXA Winterthur, Deutsche Telekom and Bosch into digital advertising films. Working on behalf of agencies such as Kolle Rebbe, Jung von Matt, Zum goldenen Hirschen and Assai Dialog + Digital, JOTZ! links its network of young talented directors with post production experts and hand-picked crews to create leading online campaigns.

Characterised by curiosity, meticulous passion and straightforward relationships with clients, directors, animation experts and concept developers, the team's signature becomes indirectly apparent. Its network partners rely on the young film production company and benefit from the personal support of the two experienced producers who originally founded JOTZ!

Team Works Production is based in Spain and has offices in the country's most popular shooting locations: Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante, Valencia and Marbella.

The company covers all production requirements, from locations and casting to equipment rental. Working on commercials, features, TV and photography assignments, its international producers speak a range of languages and are on hand to advise and assist with any production query.

Team Works' budgets are competitive yet maintain a very high standard of service.

References for any location needs can be found in the company's large database.