Les Fils Du Vent (AKA, Sons of the Wind, The Great Challege)

Film Title: Les Fils Du Vent (AKA Sons of the Wind, The Great Challenge) Production Company: UGC Images Location: Bangkok, Thailand Format: 35mm 1:1.85 Language: French Director: Julien Seri Producer: Yves Marmion Executive Producer: Olivier Thaon Thai Production Services: Phenix Films Asia Co., Ltd. Line Producer/UPM: Don Balfour Production Note: Filmed over 15 weeks from March until July 2003, Les Fils Du Vent has been one of the largest foreign productions ever to film in Bangkok. This contemporary action movie required around 40 Bangkok city locations, some entailing street closures. As the contracted Thai production services company, Phenix Films Asia engaged all local cast and crew, arranged film permits, equipment, transport, hotels, catering, taxation issues, work permits, communications, etc. We hired approximately 150 crew & local technicians, 250 stunt extras, 40 local cast and hundreds of extras. The French cast and crew numbered approximately 50. With 4 camera units rolling we shot over 1000 rolls of film stock.