COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION & POST PRODUCTION Mar 2015

Amsterdam Production Services is a dedicated full service company based in the Netherlands. APS knows how difficult it can be to shoot abroad and so offers total commitment to the entire process.

John Trapman, a Canadian abroad, leads the multi-language team that has over 20 years’ experience of providing cost effective production services for commercials, features, TV and photography. No project is too big to handle or too small to embrace.

“I cannot recommend John and his team more highly. Effortless, transparent, honest and good humoured; working with John was an absolute pleasure from start to finish. Amsterdam is a fabulous production centre, and John is a consummate professional with a wealth of experience.”
Phil Barnes, UK Producer.

Artists Group would like to thank its clients for a fantastic six months filming a variety of challenging TVCs, which included white water rafting, train hopping, underwater filming, blocking bridges, city blocks and shooting with Russian Arm, R1 Rig and Drones.

• Michelob Ultra directed by Pete Henderson for Steam Films.
• Bell Canada directed by Mark Ziebert for Sons and Daughters.
• Renault directed by Iclaudius for Park Productions.
• United Airlines directed by Sean Meehan for Arts & Sciences LA.
• Nature Valley directed by Alar for Sons and Daughters.

Bleed VFX is an award-winning post-production studio specialised in physical and  dynamic simulations. Applying science, physics and mathematics the team creates true-to-life renditions of fluids, fire, smoke, particles, cloth and more. Working out of its Buenos Aires HQ, the company delivers for clients around the globe, and last year opened an office in Barcelona to be nearer to European customers.

Bleed VFX’s breakthrough was a bald man in a hairy car: 'Hair Conditioning' for Banco Santander Río was internationally recognised and won a Bronze Lion at Cannes in 2010. The company has since catered for well-known brands around the world who reach out to Bleed VFX to solve effects for commercials, music videos and films.

VFX supervisor, Paolo Cavalieri, recently directed the VFX for Juan Jose Campanella's 'Underdogs'.

Clamer Design is a production studio specialised in motion media and visual projects. Established in 2001 in Sofia, Bulgaria the company produces advertising and music videos, short and documentary movies, and professional fashion and advertising photography for international brands.

Clamer Design works with leading ad agencies and a huge variety of clients from the industry, including cosmetics, beauty, pharmaceutical, food, bank and insurance companies, mobile operators, print and TV media, fashion brands and many more.

Industrial Color has been on the forefront of innovation for capture and post-production to serve the creative vision of the fashion, media, music, retail, and advertising industries. Industrial Color offers a full suite of creative production and post-production services, including digital still and video capture, colour grading and video editing, CGI and VFX, and custom sound design.

Industrial Color is part of Industrial Color Brands, a family of creative production services.

In the last quarter of 2014, LR Studio won the 'Best Film' award at the 48 Hour Project Festival in Shanghai with the short film 'Unleash the Power', featured in this Spotlight.

The company also developed and produced corporate short films for Pizza Hut and Abbot. It also developed Mindshare’s corporate film that won 'Agency of the Year' award and 'CEO of the Year' for China.

For the first quarter of 2015, as well as a couple of corporate short films LR Studio has been developing and filming a documentary for both Web and TV about the first Chinese female team climbing Everest.

Musaranya is a film production company based in Barcelona, specialising in cars, interiors, kids, fashion, food, underwater, healthcare, and service industry advertising. Clients include Seat, Volkswagen, Jané, Planeta De Agostini, Bacardi and Nestlé.

With an extensive high-level reel, TiToGifre is an enthusiastic director with fresh approaches and vast knowledge of post-production. His 20 years of experience and versatility make him a successful professional, usually described as a vocational, easy going and highly competent director.

Musaranya provides camera and extensive lighting equipment as well as a private 300 m² studio complete with a 10m x 10m, specially designed remote-controlled floating ceiling that provides light reflection for car shoots, as well as a heating system for productions featuring models and kids.

A specially designed pool for underwater film and photo productions is located in an area of extensive natual light, with a water heating system providing temperatures of up to 27 ºC as well as a dry moat for cameras with windows at deep water and at mid-water levels.

Pollak Productions is an Emmy Award-winning production company that produces video, commercial and still photography projects from concept to completion. Based at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Pollak Productions works both nationally and internationally with a network of accomplished film, TV and video professionals to create visually arresting images and compelling storytelling for every audience.

The company's start-to-finish production services include everything from creative, scripting, directing, and producing to casting, location scouting, logistics, post-production and much more.

A sampling of its diverse clients include Oprah Winfrey Network, US Olympic Committee, Dr. Phil Show, Visa, American Express, Crocs, Nat GEO, Discovery Channel, Food Network, TLC, Travel Channel, T-Mobile, Coors, Crocs, First Data, White Wave, RE/MAX, Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson.

PPM Film Production is a premium, full service film production company based in Budapest. For over 20 years, PPM has been sought after by clients looking to take advantage of the wealth of atmosphere, beauty, history and technical expertise on offer when shooting in Hungary.

PPM has proven itself time and again with dynamic solutions in creating exciting television advertising for some of the world’s most recognisable brands and companies.

Budapest has long been a world-class location for TV advertising and feature film production. The city can do ‘bright’ with its ornate and expansive bridges, winding Danube views and grandiose boulevards; but it can also do ‘edgy’ with sooty Gothic tenements, bullet-pocked facades and brooding streets.

With its value for money, Budapest has already stood-in for cities like Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Moscow and Berlin. Local facilities include a branch of the internationally renowned Raleigh Studios, now Central and Eastern Europe’s best-equipped production studio.

The one-stop shop for global production support with vetted local knowledge has expanded to offer top shoot destinations for every season.

PSN-Production Service Network partners shooting around the world, from Argentina and Colombia to Greece, Iceland and Indonesia for demanding clients including Canon, L’Oréal and Warner Bros., enhance a cinematic range of global options that the network facilitates at no added cost to international producers.

Commercials for top-tier brands include Axe, Fedex, Hyundai, Mazda, Nano Universe, Sberbank, Sony PlayStation and Toyota, who have all captured scenes for recent film and photo campaigns with shoot support from PSN partners.

Producers of recent projects for 20th Century Fox, MRF, Nano Universe, Sunfeast and Uniqlo have called on PSN deliver cost-effective solutions that don’t kill the creative in Austria, the UK, Italy, Romania and Germany.

"Think global and shoot like a local. Contact PSN to get the most out of your next international shoot."