Open Brolly

10 Years of Information Management for Locations, Property, People and Places

May 9th, 2009

Friday 21st May, 2009 – Cannes Film Festival, France

cannes_2009_poster_portrait-399x600Open Brolly agreed a contract to provide software to the Abu Dhabi Film Commission yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival. Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates and is building a major film and TV production centre for the creative industries as an investment for when oil revenue declines. It is only one of two film commissions in the Middle East and as well as looking to attract Hollywood it is also looking towards the rapidly growing Bollywood market. It has one of the biggest presences of all the screen agencies from around the world in Cannes this year.

We discover all sorts of interesting things along the way. One of these is social media (see below) and have set up a company to deal with this at 4tm-services.com.

March 14th, 2009

bbIts been a very active start to the year.

We have had several speaking engagements and are currently planning our Cannes presence. One of the key areas this spring will be to spell out that film tourism need not be difficult to implement. To plan and co-ordinate is a different matter :-)

One area we have been mentioning to clients over the last year is that they need to think about mobile internet access to information. People want to do things as easily as possible and the uptake on using mobile phones for email and getting information is huge; how many Blackberries do you see on the bus and train? I am pleased to see we are in good company Sir Tim Webbers has recently said this is the way ahead. The good thing about the mobile web is that if you have planned your web presence and services well it should not be too difficult to add this service.

In 2009 we expect mobile offerings in our screen agency, tourism and social media offerings.

July 20th, 2008

Open Brolly are pleased to announce that Screen South have become a client of our MovieSite service for film offices and screen agencies. The deal was finalised at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Screen South cover one of the most dynamic parts of the UK film and television industry including Pinewood and Shepperton film studios.

May 22nd, 2008

Open Brolly was pleased to again be a sponsor of the Scottish Highlands & Islands reception in the Cannes Film Festival 2008.