location austria. the film commission of austria.

What do international feature and television films like KNIGHT AND DAY, JAMES BOND - QUANTUM OF SOLACE, BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON, XXX, NAPOLEON, BEFORE SUNRISE, and SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET have in common? They were all either completely or partly filmed in Austria.

Austria as a film location offers a comprehensive technical infrastructure that meets the highest industry standards. Professional film and video cameras, lighting, rails, dollies, cranes, motion control, sound equipment, as well as services like film processing, scanning, tape-to-film transfer, video and film post production, computer animation, special effects, film compositing, TV-transcoding, and mass copying of videos are services available.

There are plenty of well-trained and experienced professionals in all areas of expertise. Austria’s talent has stayed on top of the furious pace of technical advancements of the past years and, in some cases, Austrians drove the innovations. Representative examples include Fritz Gabriel Bauer who developed the revolutionary 35-mm Moviecam camera, for which he has received three of the prestigious Technical Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. The Austrian company, Brains & Pictures, has become a household name for innovative movie-tech gadgets: the remote-controlled wire-cam CAMCAT, a cable car system used worldwide for sports and special events broadcasts as well as on the set of HARRY POTTER.

Christian Berger, acclaimed cinematographer, together with Christian Bartenbach developed the B&B Cine Reflect Lighting System which was used on the set of Michael Haneke‘s THE WHITE RIBBON.

Film Labs

Major labs in Vienna, like Synchro Film and Listo Film provide film processing and scanning services. In addition, these companies offer digital editing facilities for non-linear editing, compositing, and 2D/3D animation as well as private screening rooms.

Post Production

Austrian post production companies have established an exemplary international reputation. Facilities with state-of-the art hardware and software have found as much recognition as the highly-skilled Austrian film and sound editors and 3D specialists. Bernd Angerer from the Tirol, former Lead Character Animator for the California Special Effects Factory Digital Domain and now Art Director at Sony Pictures, was responsible for the virtual passengers in James Cameron’s TITANIC, and worked on other blockbusters such as I, ROBOT and the SPIDERMAN franchise. In the area of feature film, the post production for Michael Haneke’s successful French-Austrian production THE PIANO TEACHER was handled in Vienna.

In the area of commercial film production, the telecommunications giant Hutchinson contracted a Vienna-company for the 3D-animation for their commercial spots.

Post Production (Picture and Sound):
www.leiss.at
www.k-effects.at
www.art-media.at
www.listo.at
www.interspot.at

Sound:
www.tremens.at
www.ton-eichinger.at
www.mg-sound.com
www.ticmusic.com
www.tonzauber.com

Studios

The Filmstadt Wien Studios offer a full range of film and television production services within their own four walls. This “Four-Wall-System” has proven successful with many productions. The historic studio lot boasts 7.9 acres (32,000 m²), and six sound stages from 3,780 sq.ft. (351 m²) to 10,620 sq.ft. (987 m²) in size. A modern business park with more than 20 independent film service companies is conveniently located on the lot.

In the spring of 2005, The Vienna Film Academy opened a highly sophisticated film studio, which is available for rent outside regular school hours. The studio, in which natural and artificial lighting can be used, features three sound stages from 1,291 sq.ft. to 3,153 sq.ft. (120 m² to 293 m²) in size, a movie theater, overflow rooms, and workshop areas. More details on the studio and information on locations and rentals of historic locations can be found under