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The new high action adventure series “Dig”, set to premiere on USA Network on 5 March 2015, is back in Croatia, filming additional episodes on locations in Split, Šibenik and Istria. 

Zadar Film Commission was officially presented at the Zadar County Hall on 26 January 2015. Thus Zadar became the first Croatian city to have established an office offering a support system for the film industry.

Twelve fruitful and lively months are behind us. The large numbers that marked the recent years in some areas keep growing (production, service export, number of renovated screens), and in others fail (cinema rates).

As part of Zagreb Film Festival 2014, Croatian Audiovisual Centre organised a panel discussion on the growing connections between Croatian and Danish filmmakers, named Danes Go South. All the attendees concluded that Croatia has a great future as a co-production country, because next to the landscape diversity it has an ambitious, professional and welcoming film crew that makes film work on all levels a lot easier.

The Danish royal couple, Queen Margarete II of Denmark and her husband, Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark, on Wednesday attended the Croatian premiere of the Danish-Croatian co-production Itsi Bitsi, written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen, held at Europa cinema and as part of Zagreb Film Festival 2014. 

Representatives of the media were invited Friday, 26 September, to the set of the fifth season of Game of Thrones in Dubrovnik. The HBO's hit fantasy drama is being filmed in Croatia for the fourth year in a row. 

The filming of Full Contact, a new feature by the acclaimed Dutch director David Verbeek and produced by Lemming Film, began. The film stars French screen celebrities Gregoire Colin, Slimane Dazi and Lizzie Brocheré. Jaako dobra produkcija in association with Nukleus film is in charge of the set.

The crew of Christmas in the Sun, the Swedish hit series seen by millions of people each December - filming for the first time outside Sweden thanks to the Croatia filming incentive - was presented today on Vidova gora, on the island of Brač. 

Lonely Planet, one of the largest publishers specialising in travel guides, in its newsletter published a guide through the locations where Game of Thrones Season 4 was filmed, including Dubrovnik and Split. The fourth season of Game of Thrones was filmed in Croatia thanks to the Croatian Audiovisual Centre’s cash rebate scheme and organised by the Croatian production company Embassy Films.

In Bol on the island of Brač, children's adventure series with a working title Christmans in the Sun began filming. It is produced by one of the most active Swedish TV companies – Tre Vänner. The filming is organised in cooperation with the Croatian production company Kinorama.