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Despite its beautiful scenery and cheap costs, Brazil s violent image has hampered it in attracting international productions. This is something the newly created Brazilian Film Commissions Association  Abrafic  hopes to rectify.Set up last November and made up of 13 regional commissions, the organisation has been developing a strategic plan to make Brazilian locations more competitive. South Africa, where the number of crimes is higher, managed to surpass the problem by creating favourable conditions for international producers,  says Ana Cristina Costa E Silva, president of Abrafic.While Brazil currently allows international producers to deduct up to 3% of income tax owed provided they stanley cup  use a Brazilian co-producer and some Brazilian crew, Abrafic is hoping further incentives will be introduced soon.Brazil Estudios already has international-standard studios and labs, such as Estudios stanley cup  Mega, MegaColor and Teleimage, which is considered the pioneer in post-production  stanley cup in HD, data, 2K and 4K in Brazil and across Latin America. Brazil has a tremendous capacity that is not being realised,  says Bill Haynes, president and executive producer of Figure 8 Films in the US, who has shot documentaries in the country, including Miracle Man: John Of God  2005 .While Brazil s mix of races can make for interesting casting opportunities, the difficulty for foreign producers is finding crew with experience on big-budget international productions. Titles like City Of God got our directors, cinema Kkyj Cradle 2 The Grave
Dir: James Watkins. UK. 2011. 95minsGood old-fashioned gothic horror is the name of the game in The Woman In Black, an impressively spooky adaptation of Susan Hills best-selling novel that delivers plenty of jumps, jolts and thrills and is driven by a restrained adult performance by Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe as a young lawyer who spends time in a creepy old mansion.James Watkins directs with a good deal of respect for the rules of gothic horror.This Victorian period horror tale is refreshing in that it makes no bones about what it is about 鈥?deliv stanley cup ering gothic horror thrills pure and simple. The 1982 source novel has already been adapted into a successful stage production, but its story of dark secrets and mysterious horror is perfectly suited for a big screen version. Opening in the US on February 3  and in the UK on February 10  it may disappoint gore hounds on the lookout for bloodnguts, and may find it hard to appeal to younger audiences but it delivers enough honest-to-goodness jumps to keep genre fans happy.Adapted by Ja stanley cup ne Goldman  who most recently co-scripted X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass , the film stars Radcliffe as young lawyer Arthur Kipps who is still mourning the death of his wife and trying to balance his emotional traumas with work and looking after his three year-old son Joseph  played by Misha Handley, Radcliffes real life godson .Arthur is forced to travel to the remote vill stanley us age of Crythin Gifford to look after the affairs of the recently deceased