Location Scout Services

Here is how this works in practice. We supply location scouts who find and document the settings a production needs across Austria. Our location scouts research and visit potential locations, photograph and report on access, light, power and logistics, and present options tied to the director's brief and the budget. We brief them on your script, references and schedule, then confirm openings against your prep timeline.

Here is the layout. Austria's geographic compactness is a real advantage — a scout can cover Baroque Vienna, the lakes of the Salzkammergut and the Tyrolean Alps within a tight schedule. Our location scouts work fluently in English and German. We contract under the Kollektivvertrag terms set by the Fachverband der Film- und Musikwirtschaft within the WKO.

We set up the location scout with the location manager and director so promising options move smoothly into securing and prep.

Here is the short of it. Austria rewards location scouting with extraordinary variety in a small country. Vienna alone gives Schoenbrunn, the Belvedere, the Hofburg, the Ringstrasse and the Prater. Salzburg adds its Baroque historic centre. And within a few hours lie the Wachau valley along the Danube, Hallstatt, the Salzkammergut lakes and the high peaks of Tyrol around Innsbruck. UNESCO has recognised the Historic Centre of Vienna, Schoenbrunn, the Historic Centre of Salzburg and the Hallstatt-Dachstein cultural landscape.

Here is the breakdown. Global shoots have drawn on this breadth — 'Before Sunrise' captured everyday Vienna, 'The Third Man' its post-war streets, and the James Bond film 'Spectre' the alpine drama of the Oetztal. Location Austria, part of the Austrian Business Agency, promotes these settings to incoming shoots. While the Vienna Film Commission and Bundesland authorities manage access. Austria's central position also lets scouts extend a search into neighbouring countries when a story calls for it.