Screen International is profiling all the winners of the fourth Global Production Awards, which were held tonight (May 18) at the Mademoiselle Gray Barriere in Cannes.
Location Of The Year - Site/Man-Made
Winner: Underwater Stages, UK (Longcross South Studios)
Awarded to a single location — site or man-made — that was used across one or multiple film and TV productions, the winner needed to display its creative importance in storytelling. Judges looked for the location’s impact, its versatility and the support and services provided to producers who have used it.
A world-class submission, Longcross South Studios’ two large-scale underwater stages were deemed to deliver not just a location, but purpose-built infrastructure enabling filmmaking at a scale rarely achieved — a $6m (£4.4m) project delivered in a space of months to host Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
“The speed of delivery, technical ambition and ability to execute complex underwater sequences practically, rather than relying on VFX, is a major differentiator,” said one judge. “A clear example of problem-solving at the highest level, supporting a tentpole production while advancing industry capability. Both the innovation and execution set a new benchmark for what a production site can offer.” Another judge pointed to the large amount of “filmmaking advice and design thinking” that had been put into “this impressive development designed to help creatives produce their biggest ideas more easily.”
Other nominees:
- Götheborg of Sweden — A Living 18th-Century Film Set (Film i Väst)
- UK (The Old Royal Naval College)
Click here for all the GPA winners
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