Film Location Services (Sri Lanka)
Film Location Services(Pvt)Ltd. which is currently known as Asian Film Locations Services(Pvt)Ltd. is a well known film location and production services company based in Sri Lanka. The company was founded by the Sri Lankan film maker Chandran Rutnam in 1979 and credited for the production of number of award winning films.
History
Chandran Rutnam was doing jobs in Hollywood studios while he was pursuing his studies on a film school in Los Angeles. Rutnam's break in selling Sri Lankan locations to international film-makers came when he managed to convince John Derek, director of "Tarzan the Apeman", to shoot the film starring his wife Bo Derek, in Sri Lanka rather than Africa.
Steven Spielberg refers to Rutnam as "My most valued friend in the Far East.
See also
- Filming location
- Location scouting
- Location library
- Location shooting
- Film production
- List of film-related topics
- List of film production companies
- List of film production companies by country
- List of Christian film production companies