Your production coordinator
in Libya
Are you looking for a production coordinator in Libya who can tell you all about the sites you are filming in, ours is a passionate historian. From Byzantine underground water systems to Libya’s part in the prelude to both World War I and World War II, he knows it all. What is best, he can take you to film it while pointing out interesting details regarding the locations. If you want to interview a local, our journalist fixer knows a few interesting characters.
Tripoli
Right in the heart of Libya’s main harbor lies Assaraya al-Hamra (Red Castle). This well-preserved part of old Tripoli reminds us of all the people that paraded here: Phoenicians, Byzantines, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks, and Italians. They all left their mark in the unique façades, semi-lunar, crescent-shaped roof-top arcades, and clay-tainted murals. As per our production coordinator in Libya, there is nothing like watching the sun go down over the fortification. Our location scout can show you around the roman villa remains.
Benghazi
If you are looking for ruins that would make your audience feel like they are traveling back in time, you`re in the right place. Our production coordinator in Libya can tell you all about Ptolemais. The ancient city offers beautifully-preserved Roman architecture and a fantastic coastline.
Jebel Akhdar, a gorgeous green mountain chain, sticks out from Africa’s arid lands as an unusually vital and brilliant sight. It is also charged with history. You can visit the many caves from which fights were led against Italian colonialism.
Benghazi
Fezzan
Largely desert, Fezzan is broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys in the north, where oases enable ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise inhospitable Sahara Desert. There are oil wells in Fezzan capable of 400,000 barrels per day, and oil companies fly in staff from northern Libya. Our journalist fixer can tell you all about how local tribes are not getting any money from the oil trade and smuggling migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, which is feeding the European migrant crisis.
Al Jufrah
The three oases in the Jufra district (Sukna, Hun, and Waddan) feature 86 individual archaeological sites. Those include cairn cemeteries, field systems, and foggara.
Haruj is a large volcanic field with 150 volcanoes. This huge geographic feature is visible from space. Our location scout can send you recent pictures of the lava surfaces – from rough and rubbly to smooth, billowy, undulating, or ropy ones. We can find you lava pressure ridges or caves in the lava that seem out of this world.
Al Jufrah
Al Kufrah
Astride ancient caravan routes, the oasis was a raiders’ stronghold until 1895. That was the year when it became the headquarters of the Sanūsī, a reformist Muslim religious fraternity. Our production coordinator in Libya tells us how the Italians launched an aerial offensive against the oasis in 1930 and occupied it in 1931.
The main towns are Al-Jawf, Al-Ṭulaylīb, and Al-Ṭallāb. Our location scouting uncovered a Sanūsī religious school on a sandstone plateau in Al-Ṭāj. There are extensive date groves, and an underground reservoir provides irrigation. Livestock raising is important.
Hiring a location scout in Libya
Choose to work with us and our production coordinator in Libya will be your local guide. Furthermore, he will share the most important and interesting historical facts about the locations you are filming in. From the Red Spanish Castle to the daring guerrilla war against the Italian troops, the cultures that had ambitions in the country left their mark. Better than telling you all about it, we can show you pictures of what remains from the interaction of starkly-contrasted cultures.
Our location scout has prepared comprehensive notes. Also, he has an impressive collection of pictures to showcase Libya’s often disregarded history. For example, you can film in the footsteps of Omar Al Mukhtar, a Libyan hero of the national struggle against colonization. The war movie The Lion of the Desert starring Anthony Quinn is set against the backdrop of Mussolini’s efforts to gain control of Libya and chronicled the pursuit of Al-Mukhtar.
