Screen International Finalists for the 2025 Global Production Awards have been announced. This celebrates outstanding sustainable work in the world of film and television production, location and studios.
Among the finalists are Universal, Paramount, Netflix and Fremantle.
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The award will be held at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025 at the Mademoiselle Grey Barriere. This event is only an invitation, but you can register your interest here. Members of the Global Production Awards team will contact you if registration is successful.
The judges for the third Global Production Awards include Jay Roewe, senior vice president at HBO. Valerie Guerette-Langlais, Head of A24’s Production Tax and Incentives. Veronica Sullivan, head of global production foreign affairs and state and local governments at NBCuniversal. The review committee was compiled by specialist strategy consulting firm Olsberg SPI.
The Global Production Awards are sponsored by Onset Location Services (Silver Partner), Dallas Film Committee, Southside Studios (Category Partner), and Orsberg SPI (Support Partner).
Global Production Awards nominee list 2025
The city of movies
- Northern Ireland, Belfast (Northern Ireland screen)
- Gold Coast, Australia (Gold Coast Film Committee)
- New York City, USA (NYC Mayor’s Media & Entertainment Office)
- Sydney, Australia (Screen NSW)
- Zagreb, Croatia (Zagreb Film Bureau)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Awards
- Quiet love (Curious North Productions, Ireland)
- Blood Legacy (Gambit Films, South Africa)
- Empowered (MirrorWater Entertainment, LLC, USA)
- Moves like a wonderful animal (final pixel, UK)
- Don’t look away (GFC Films, New Zealand)
- Kaingan people’s advance informed consent Luz (Brazilian Forest)
- The club built by George (WhyNow Studios & TNT Sports, UK)
Economic and social impacts
- And then the Night Jars arrive (Final Movies & TV, UK)
- Blood Legacy (Gambit Films, South Africa)
- Māoriland Reroadadus & Film Festival (English Chartable Trust, New Zealand)
- Screen Berkshire (Screen Berkshire, UK)
- Screen Canterbury Production Grant We were dangerous Piki Films (Christchurchnz, New Zealand)
- Screen Industry Transferable Skills Training Program (Film Lauderdale/Broward County Film Commission, USA)
- The Walking Dead: Daryl DixonSeason 3 (Spanish Film Commission, Spain)
- Young Irish Filmmaker (Young Irish Filmmaker, Ireland)
Emerging Location Award
- Broward County, USA (Lauderdale film)
- Canterbury, New Zealand (Christcharchinz)
- County Wexford, Ireland (Screen Wexford)
- El Paso, USA (Committee)
- Froya, Norway (Midguard Film Committee Norway)
- Missouri, USA (Missouri Film Bureau)
- Finland’s Åland Islands (Åland Film Committee)
This year’s Film Committee (city/region)
- BC Film Committee at Creative BC, Canada
- Savannah Regional Film Commission, USA
- New York City Mayor’s Media & Entertainment Office, USA
- Sussex Film Office, UK
- Vienna Film Committee, Austria
This year’s Film Committee (country)
- Australia, Australia
- New Zealand Film Committee
- Northern Ireland Screen
- Spanish Film Committee
Impact Leadership Award
- Adam Moysey, nbcuniversal
- Ball Farm
- Bhavi Yasin, Kurdistan Film Committee’s Thremani
- Craig Gainesborough, Greenlight
- Katie Biliff, film and TV woman
- Linn Rott, Evergreen Prisma, LAFC, Arts and Culture Bureau Lower Austria
- Zoe Ramsch wrapped up
This year’s venue award
- Canterbury, New Zealand, Selwyn District (Christcharchinz)
- Saudi Arabia, Malaya (Araura film)
- US Moab (Moab to the Monument Valley Film Committee)
- Ravens Court Park Hospital, UK (Location Collective)
- Schoenblanc Palace, Austria (Vienna Film Committee)
Prominent use of the place
- Horizon: American Saga – Chapter 1 (Maube to Monument Valley Film Committee, USA)
- Nora (Araura Films, Saudi Arabia)
- touch (Focus function and universal photo, USA)
Studio of the Year
- Cinespace Studios (Canada)
- NFI Studio (Hungary)
- Shinfield Studios, part of Shadowbox Studios (UK)
- Bottleyard Studio (UK)
- Vancouver Film Studios (Canada)
Sustainability Initiative Award
- Evergreen Prisma (LAFC & The Department for Art and Culture Lower Austria, Austria)
- Reset Program (Garden Studios, UK)
- Rolling Green (Quebec Film & Television Council, Canada)
- Step Up – Sustainability Toolkit & e-Learning Platform (EcoPlod, France)
- Story, Skills, Sustainability Strategy (UK Northern Ireland Screen)
- Grid Project (film London, UK)
- Hydrogen power generation by Toho Co & Jera Co (TOT Studio, Japan)
Sustainable Production Award (Movie)
- Bridget Jones: I’m angry about the boy (Universal photo, us)
- Love hurts (Universal photo, us)
- Average girl (Paramount photo, us)
- evil (Universal photo, us)
Sustainable Production Award (TV)
- Amazing animals and mini me (Three Arrows Media, Final Pixel & Sky Kids, UK)
- Bridgeton (Netflix, USA)
- Lockerbie: Search for the Truth (Carnival film, part of Universal International Studios, USA)
- Emergency Call Port Edge (Letterbox FilmProduktion GmbH, Germany)
- Jackal’s Day (Carnival film, part of Universal International Studios, USA)
Virtual Production Innovation Award
- Moves like a wonderful animal (final pixel, UK)
- Pixojam Virtual Production (Pixojam Virtual Production, UAE)
- Virtual Audiovisual Production White Paper & EI Escoria Digital Assets (Spanish Film Commission, Spain)
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