Local 81 creates film and TV, NOT fancy websites.

This site is testiment to our mantra of integrity in our work. INTEGRITY means keeping your word and doing whatever it takes to get the job done.

Local 81 is your source for highly experienced, bilingual production staff for shoots in Japan. "Speak the language" by maximizing our bailiwicks of locations, casting and creative staff.

Local 81 has produced over 50 hours of award winning documentaries, reality shows, music vidoes and commercials with 81's A-list production crew (local producers, location coordinators, camera, sound, art, etc.). Our clients keep coming back for our "pro-active dedication" in accomplishing their shoot goals. Offering advice comes with the job.

Yes, production budgets are shrinking worldwide. Yes, the yen is strong making it harder to shoot in Japan but "For us to live any other way was nuts" -- Goodfellas. Contact: miracles-included@local81.jp

BROADCAST
Top Gear The BBC's most popular and longest running show. Local producer, production manager, location managers, coordinators, PAs, casting, transport, aerial photography. Raced the Nissan GTR versus Japanese public transport (local train, bullet train, subway, bus, ferry, ropeway, bike). Other segments below.

REALITY TV
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL Season 3 (UPN/Ten by Ten) Three episodes in two weeks. All levels of production from locations, local crews, transport, art, lights, fashion photo shoots/fashion show, high level security, production services, catering. 50 staff plus models.

THE AMAZING RACE ASIA Season 2 Japan (AXN/Active TV) Local Facilitation, Line producing/locations, PM, LM, 20 PAs, cameramen, art department, transportation, hotels, visas, arrival/departure out plans. Field Producer (Season 3, all episodes). 2008 THE AMAZING RACE ISRAEL (Japan episodes) After two races, Local 81 knows that producing 8 locations simultaneously is the most exciting production challenge in the business.

SPORTS FIFA/HBS Country Producer (Japan). Producer for World Cup content. Produced footage/interviews for the pregame and post game shows. If you saw Japan play, you saw my work. Stayed at team hotel, travelled with team, conducted nightly long interviews for use by world broadcasters.

COMMERCIALS
NIKE - Where's the Next Ronaldinho (Traktor/W+K) After 50 soccer fields and 150 actor auditions, in the true Traktor style, we cast a real-life high school coach plus 20 of his students and the lead boy shooting at an actual high school wiith two 16mm cameras plus two steadicams, art, lightening, hair/make-up, sound, transport, catering, on the subway with 50 extras and finally a noodle shop.

Canon HD XL H1 Our team of consisted of: line producer, production manager, location coordinator, prod coord, camera assist, AD, grips (panther dolly and jimmy jib) lightening, casting, art, wardrobe, hair/make-up, transport, catering for theLondon based creative house COAST group of director, cameraman and producer. This one minute commercial was shot in a bamboo forest using an action star.

Watching the Making Video as well.

CORPORATE FILMS Location Coord/Camera Asst/Lightening/Transport/Simul Translation Apple Computer Apple Pro Artist Profiles day-in-the-life doco with artists, their work, their software, their Macs. Takagi Masakatsu:Sound of Light visual artist and musician W+K Tokyo Lab:Hybrid Hi-fi

UBS Warburg Global recruitment campaign film/CD-Rom shoot 16mm Location Coordinator/Dolly Grip/AD/Camera Assist Creative Direction: McQueen London Production/Direction: Salt Pictures (London) A day in the life documentary approach of a recent hire with work and play visuals and interviews.
Sony PlayStation Gran Turismo 4 DVD Location Coordinator/Transport/Camera Assist 30min programme for Sony to explain the importance of learning core driving skills. Race track footage of the programmers trying to past the tests they designed along with interviews.
Peugeot (Euro Rscg), Royal Bank of Scotland (Funky Duck Media), Eli Lilly (Creative Street Media), YAHOO!, SONY, GUGGENHEIM 'Lichtenstein in Japan'

MUSIC VIDEOS/DVD BTS
DVDs Location Coordination/Camera Staff Paul McCartney, Driving Japan Tour concert footage, behind the scenes, fan interviews, Tokyo/ Osaka (Mark Haefli Productions).

JUNKETS Spiderman 3 Tokyo World Premiere. Local Line producer for 8 local camera crews, sound, lightening, production staff. Red carpet coverage and 4 director/star interview rooms. SpecialTreats Productions (UK) and Sony Pictures.

Animatrix Making DVD (Eric Matthies Productions) Scroll to Screen:The History and Culture of Anime. Location Coord/Interpreter for director interviews, as well as animation and manga related interviews highlighting the creative process of bringing these stories to life.

Ninja Assassin Making DVD (Eric Matthies Productions) Japan ninja footage/interviews.

BROADCAST IAN WRIGHT - Out of Bounds: Okinawa Location Coordinator (The Travel Channel) produced by Roast Beef Productions (director: Martin Herring producer: Mike Lerner) with Ian Wright, the original host of THE LONELY PLANET (GLOBETREKER) and the highest rating travel presenter in the U.S., ventures to "out of bounds" travel spots.Planet Soccer Associate Producer (Discovery). Hosted by Ian Wright (Lonely Planet presenter). A personal journey through Japan through the prism of soccer. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD review.

BROADCAST One Step Beyond Associate Producer/Location Coordination (Discovery Network). A weekly half-hour series which goes to the outer edge of science, nature and human experience. Produced for the Discovery Network by Australian production company, Becker Entertainment. Japanese episodes includes: Dr. Tomabechi and His Ringtone Tits, Ultra-Lifelike Repliee Q1 Robot

Locked Up Abroad National Geographic Channel. Local producer, AD, art department, locations, gaffer/camera assistants, casting, transport. Doco reconstruction. Produced by RAW TV.

Marked City Producer (Tokyo/Spike TV). Tattoo artist Permanent Mark travels Japan, Thailand and Borneo in search of tattoos.

Building the Future: Surviving Climate Change Location Coordinator-Fixer (Wall to Wall Media / Discovery) A shoot involving super 16, HD, spydercam and steadicam.

MTV Gametrailers Tokyo Game Show. Local line producer, three coordinators, four camera crews. We have assisted them for four years.

The Genius of Photography, Fixer (BBC/Wall to Wall). Programme 3 (c1939-c1960) explores the concept of 'photographic' and historical moment profiling Shomei Tomatsu. Programme 5 (c1960-c1990) explores pictures that photographers take of other people and of themselves profiling photographers Araki and Tsuchida Hiromi. The Genius of Design (BBC2/Wall to Wall) Location Coordinator-Fixer-Soundman.

Wim Wenders - Return to Onomichi, Fixer. An behind the scenes doco following Wim and Donata Wenders as they prepare for a photography show in Tokyo. Includes personal appearances, college lectures, one-on-one interviews.

Whatever Turns You On, Associate Producer/ Location Coordination(UK Channel 5). Three-part series exploring sexual behaviour. Japanese footage includes: ladies comic artist Sakamoto Mimei, film director Ryuichi Hiroki, soapland worker, University Professor Koyano Atsushi, manga/Japanese culture aficionado.

Sync or Swim Associate Producer/Location Coordinator (Discovery Travel & Adventure). Jamie Aditya Graham has one week to learn a cultural performance and perform it before a live audience. Yuichiro Tanaka screenwriter/hip hop artist -- sourced by Local 81-- guides Jamie as they explore the roots of the shamisen guitar. In the end, Jamie performs with Yuichiro's band.

ESPN DRIVE (High Impact Television) Tokyo Motor Show Local line producer, three coordinators, two camera crews.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY 70 page fashion catalogue for Australia's leading department store David Jones (Saatchi & Saatchi).

DIRECTORIAL WORKS

CM Voice Actor Director for English versions of Japanese television CMs for submission to international contests like the Cannes Film Festival and the CLIO Awards.
CM PLANNER CM planner for Japanese ad agencies writing original scripts and storyboards.
COMPUTER GAMES Voice Actor Director for Japanese and English version of SonyPlaystation2 games.