EXT. CAPE TOWN — REGION / 04 · SUPPLIED BY GROUNDGLASS
Cape Town is the long-standing answer to a European winter — southern-hemisphere sun, serious crew depth, and every landscape from Atlantic coast to vineyard to desert dune within an hour of the city. EXT. lists a supplied collection here: locations scouted and photographed by Groundglass, Cape Town’s production service company, with access arranged through them and enquiries through us.
● THE FRAMESPHOTOGRAPHED BY GROUNDGLASS
● Location photography and access: Groundglass, Cape Town ↗
● THE GROUNDTERRAIN & WHAT IT READS AS
The collection runs from a working port to a white dunefield, with a VOC fort, two art museums, a palazzo on the surf and a mountain estate in between.
GRD/01
Within these ten pages: seventeenth-century bastion walls, 1920s industrial concrete, gilded Edwardian staterooms, ivy-clad collegiate courts, an empty arena bowl, port hardstanding, fynbos mountain tracks and open dunes. Almost every period and register a script calls for, without leaving one metro.
GRD/02
When it is winter in Europe it is summer here — the reason productions have made the trip for decades. Long southern-summer days, high sun on white sand and ochre walls, and a city with the depth to hold a full unit.
● HOW IT WORKSSUPPLIED, VIA GROUNDGLASS
HOW/01
These locations are supplied by Groundglass, who hold the relationships and arrange access on the ground. Enquire through EXT. as with any location in the library — we brief Groundglass and they take it from there. For crew, kit and production service in South Africa, Groundglass is In Color’s partner; production enquiries go via incolor.film.
● THE COLLECTIONTEN LISTED LOCATIONS
EXT. NORVAL FOUNDATIONConcrete galleries and a sculpture garden under the mountain, Tokai.
EXT. ZEITZ MOCAAThe carved grain-silo museum at the V&A Waterfront.
EXT. CASA LABIAAn Italian palazzo on the Muizenberg seafront.
EXT. LOURENSFORDMountain tracks and the Graskop boulder plateau above Somerset West.
EXT. CASTLE OF GOOD HOPEThe VOC bastion fort — the oldest existing building in South Africa.
EXT. BELLVILLE VELODROMEA 250-metre indoor track bowl and arena in the northern suburbs.
EXT. TRANSNET QUAYWorking-port apron, gantry cranes and a breakwater road.
EXT. SILO DISTRICTRaw 1920s silo concrete against new glass at the Waterfront.
EXT. ATLANTIS DUNESA white dunefield forty kilometres north of the city.
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWNIvy, colonnades and courts on the slopes of Devil’s Peak.
● ALSOIN THE COLLECTION
Photographed in the same supplied set and available on enquiry: Centre of the Book · CTICC · Rhodes Memorial · Paarl Taal Monument · Cape Town City Hall · Stellenbosch University Hall · Baxter Theatre · SBH Cotton Mills · Oak Valley · Coastal Roads · Church Square · Cullinan Square · Artscape · Pier Place · Battery Park · Albert Luthuli Square.
Private houses, villas and gardens are available on enquiry — a further seventeen properties not listed publicly.
● QUESTIONSFROM PRODUCTIONS
FAQ/01
Groundglass — the Cape Town company that scouted and photographed every location in this collection. They hold the relationships and arrange access on the ground; EXT. holds the library and the enquiry.
FAQ/02
Exactly as for any location in the library: mike@extlocations.co.uk or 01202 022 158. We brief Groundglass and they take it from there.
FAQ/03
Not us — EXT. is a location library. For crew and kit in South Africa, Groundglass is In Color’s partner: production enquiries go via incolor.film.
FAQ/04
The northern winter is the point: when it is January in London it is high summer in Cape Town — long days, high sun, and the dunes, coast and mountains in full colour while Europe is dark by four.
FAQ/05
Yes. Seventeen further properties — houses, villas and gardens photographed in the same collection — are available on enquiry and not listed publicly. Tell us the brief.
● EXT.ENQUIRE
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