Thailand Hosts Roadshow To Promote The Kingdom As A Film-Making Destination

[webfact]

Thailand hosts roadshow to boost film-making industry

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Famous film and TV location managers are invited to attend Thailand Inbound Roadshow 2012 during Nov 5-13, designed to further promote Thailand as a film-making destination.

The Thailand Film Office extended invitation to the chief of the Location Managers Guild of America which has over 400 location managers, as well as producers and location managers in Japan and Bollywood. Most of the guests were working with famous executive producers like Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Tom Hanks, Barry Levinson, Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino.

Through the roadshow, the office celebrated the success that Thailand has this year generated Bt2.2 billion revenue from overseas film shooting in the Kingdom. This new record exceeded Bt2 billion, registered in 2008.

"Thailand’s wonders could not be entirely filmed within weeks. A roadshow to allow guests witness the wonders with their own eyes is essential," the office said in a statement.

During the familiairisation tour, guests would be taken to Ayutthaya and along the Chao Phraya River to experience Thailand’s past, Bangkok’s tourist attractions to witness modern lifestyle, enjoy Thai culture through the floating latern festival in Chiang Rai, witness the sufficiency pattern through a coffee plantation project in Chiang Rai, and study ecotourism in Phang Nga.

-- The Nation 2012-10-30

[clockman]

If they have any sense they will steer clear of the land of scams, and the two faces of Janus!

[bigbamboo]

CSI could do a whole series here.

[DocN]

"Thailand’s wonders could not be entirely filmed within weeks."

Oooooooooh ...hell, yeah!

They are 100% right about that!

[jerrysteve]

WOW! Another HUB to replace the one's which keep on slippen, slippen, slippen away!

Well, I have to hand it to them, they do keep trying...

Lets see, is anyone keeping track of the HUBS coz I lost count? ,

Edited October 30, 2012 by jerrysteve

[Skywalker69]

The Hub's keep on comming, wonder were they all go?

[lizardtongue]

The way things are at the moment they will have a ready made cast if they want 'shoot outs and stabbing' extras!

I would love to see the reaction if a foreign film company asked for permission to do 'fly on the wall' documentaries on politicians, drug culture, corruption, fake goods, education etc etc.

[rkidlad]

Are these foreigners welcome to make a movie about Thailand that portrays Thailand in a bad light?

I see many Brazilian movies made in Brazil about the problems in the slums and the corrupt police and officials. I'd love to see a movie in Thailand made in the same manner.

[Nisa]

A number of movies filmed in Thailand. Some memorable ones ...

American Gangster

The Beach

Heaven & Earth

The Deer Hunter

Good Morning Vietnam

The Killing Fields

and a couple Bond Movies

Edit: and of course Hangover II & Bangkok Dangerous

Edited October 30, 2012 by Nisa

[asiawatcher]

What a bullshit article this is. The nepotism of the Thai Film Office and the 'favoured' Thai's who think they can run films, will be allowed in to the roadshow but the real filmmakers who have worked on Thai films and the foreigners who do the majority of the marketing to bring in international work are held at bay. Thailand does not have a clue and Hollywood thinks it does not have a choice but to use those put forward by the Film Office. And then the Film Office does all it can to put roadblocks in a paperwork bureaucratic war to entangle international production. The Film Office is a disgrace as are the people running it.

[noitom]

"Thai culture and the floating lantern festival." - Does anyone really believe that today's foreign filmakers are interested in elephants and lanterns or to witness a coffee plantation to better understand the sufficiency project? Filmakers are interested in reality. The streets, the drugs, the prostitution, the ambivalence, the stark contrasts of extreme poverty and lavish , opulent, ostentatious wealth. Those are the real things that filmakers are interested in. The Thai Film Office is blowing smoke and will serve to actually discourage foreign filmakers from booking Thailand by showing them around these imitations of life as it really is.

[Payboy]

Time to shoot part deux of the Japanese porno at Suvarnabhumi.

[pmem]

Disneyland in Thailand or Thailand is Disneyland

[jonb1942]

This country is weard,they don't want NASA in to do a weather study,but they are ready to let American film makers in to make movies.

Why don't they let google in to do a street view. money,money,money.

[MILT]

I would like to see a film made based on "Thai Bashing" by funny Archie Bunker like expats in Thailand. You know the ones that live here and love/hate it with passion.

Comparisons based on their home countries and where they live in the Kingdom now. I think it would make a great comedy. Wow! Am I a expat basher? Trying real hard not to be!

[MILT]

This country is weard,they don't want NASA in to do a weather study,but they are ready to let American film makers in to make movies.

Why don't they let google in to do a street view. money,money,money.

Google has already.

[FarangTalk]

A number of movies filmed in Thailand. Some memorable ones ...

American Gangster

The Beach

Heaven & Earth

The Deer Hunter

Good Morning Vietnam

The Killing Fields

and a couple Bond Movies

Edit: and of course Hangover II & Bangkok Dangerous

Some scenes of those films were filmed in Thailand.

I wonder what the bribes were this time round to host this event?

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[Nisa]

For reference:

For 2005, the Thailand Film Office reported that 497 films and productions earned 1.14 billion baht, a jump from the 441 films and productions that earned 1.13 billion baht in 2004. The line-up in 2005 included 248 documentaries, 188 commercials, 21 feature films, 13 TV series and 27 music videos. The leading foreign films made on location were Japanese, with 161 productions, followed by Europe with 105, the US with 23 and Australia with 20

For a list of List of many foreign films shot in Thailand since the 1920s ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_shot_in_Thailand#List_of_foreign_films_shot_in_Thailand

[belg]

bring in some discovery channels production : scam city , they can do a lot of those here in thailand

locked up behind

secret gambling places

etc...

[asiawatcher]

For reference:

For 2005, the Thailand Film Office reported that 497 films and productions earned 1.14 billion baht, a jump from the 441 films and productions that earned 1.13 billion baht in 2004. The line-up in 2005 included 248 documentaries, 188 commercials, 21 feature films, 13 TV series and 27 music videos. The leading foreign films made on location were Japanese, with 161 productions, followed by Europe with 105, the US with 23 and Australia with 20

For a list of List of many foreign films shot in Thailand since the 1920s ... http://en.wikipedia....hot_in_Thailand

These were not 'films'. These were film applications for a combination of TV commercials (the majority), documentaries and video/music productions. Films in Thailand are few and far between since the political unrest of 2006, and the 2010 red shirt riots which saw a heap of production cancelled. Golf on the other hand brought in, in excess of 8Bn Baht so I guess TAT should be concentrating on that booming market. This little roadshow could be a last ditch effort before the collapse of the industry if safety and politics cannot be resolved.

[LomSak27]

A celluloid Hub, it's about time!

[Nisa]

For reference:

For 2005, the Thailand Film Office reported that 497 films and productions earned 1.14 billion baht, a jump from the 441 films and productions that earned 1.13 billion baht in 2004. The line-up in 2005 included 248 documentaries, 188 commercials, 21 feature films, 13 TV series and 27 music videos. The leading foreign films made on location were Japanese, with 161 productions, followed by Europe with 105, the US with 23 and Australia with 20

For a list of List of many foreign films shot in Thailand since the 1920s ... http://en.wikipedia....hot_in_Thailand

These were not 'films'. These were film applications for a combination of TV commercials (the majority), documentaries and video/music productions. Films in Thailand are few and far between since the political unrest of 2006, and the 2010 red shirt riots which saw a heap of production cancelled. Golf on the other hand brought in, in excess of 8Bn Baht so I guess TAT should be concentrating on that booming market. This little roadshow could be a last ditch effort before the collapse of the industry if safety and politics cannot be resolved.

Why the unnecessary doom and gloom?

What were not films? The 2005 & 2006 numbers which clearly state they are talking about "films and productions" or thelist of foreign films in the link provided? One list is clearly films and the other clearly states films and productions. I think the point of the OP is to increase filming in Thailand and really doesn't matter much if the film crews are making movies, documentaries, short stories, TV Shows, commercials, music videos or anything else (minus porn and some other topics) that brings film crews and permit fees ... which by the way is controlled and promoted by The Thailand Film Office and not TAT. I also count about a ten Hollywood major motion pictures made in Thailand and this doesn't include smaller film productions or production from other countries.

[hyperdimension]

Are these foreigners welcome to make a movie about Thailand that portrays Thailand in a bad light?

I see many Brazilian movies made in Brazil about the problems in the slums and the corrupt police and officials. I'd love to see a movie in Thailand made in the same manner.

The "Big trouble in Thailand" documentary series showed "Thailand in a bad light", though its focus was mainly Pattaya and the tourist police there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtAWRtcQLk

[hyperdimension]

I would like to see a film made based on "Thai Bashing" by funny Archie Bunker like expats in Thailand. You know the ones that live here and love/hate it with passion.

Comparisons based on their home countries and where they live in the Kingdom now. I think it would make a great comedy. Wow! Am I a expat basher? Trying real hard not to be!

There are television shows on the weekend that feature foreigners who speak Thai, such as "Rak Meung Thai", and they only ever discuss the good things about their lives in Thailand and never any of the bad. They should balance it out so that their shows give a more realistic picture of a foreigner's life in Thailand.

Edited November 1, 2012 by hyperdimension

[hyperdimension]

27 music videos

Here are some music videos of a Belgian music producer that were recently shot in Thailand:

Edited November 1, 2012 by hyperdimension