Martin Cuff Consulting

James Peak of The Location Guide talks to AFCI caretaker manager Martin Cuff about his appointment and plans: After the unexpected departure of CEO Larry Brownell, the Association of Film Commissioners has a new caretaker manager. Martin Cuff is an economics expert based in Cape Town, South Africa. So the most American of institutions has [...]

I lived in London in 1992, in a flat in St. John’s that I shared with my beloved friend Helen. Now I can’t watch Sandra Bullock without remembering Helen’s beauty, grace and zany humour – and each episode of Will and Grace plunges me right back to that tiny apartment. (When I told her this [...]

On a personal note, today I had to say goodbye to my beloved Finley Child – aka Chopsy, Lumpy, Running Girl, The Angel, Old Lady, Miss Fin. When she came into my life, she was 10 weeks old and fat and brown and glossy as a seal pup. She only ever settled when she sat [...]

A year in movies.

Still on a SethEffriken theme (will this joy know no abatement?) the new Judge Dredd film – with the understated if unimaginative working title Dredd – is currently shooting in Cape Town, starring the groovy Karl Urban (who so impressed in Red). Dredd is Africa’s first 3-D movie production and the first to use the [...]

A little personal aside; apart from a couple of periods (hip-hip Harare, hello Denver, zdravo Beograd), I’ve spent my entire life within a kilometre or two from the ocean. Now, ironically for me, that’s not a good thing: the sea scares the shit out of me. In part it’s because the gloopy grey waters of [...]

Nothing to do with movies, and only tangentally about locations – this was shot in Denver, Colorado, my old stomping ground – but rather a remarkable display of unplugged talent. I liked it and thought you might too.

I believe in equality probably more ferociously than just about anything on this planet. So: In light of tomorrow’s rather tragic attempt at Belgrade Pride – in the face of serious threats of violence (the last one was cancelled, the one before broken up by thugs), it’s basically being held behind closed doors….. And in [...]

Variations on a theme. Toy Story 3 v. Inception.

Just because, really: an Up/Inception mash up. Some people are so damn clever.