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Slovenia gets a cross and diamond rating — a "moderate risk."
Each year, the entertainment insurance broker AON measures the risk of filming a movie in different countries on earth. The results for 2005 are out, and Slovenia got labelled a "moderate risk." That puts it in the company of places like Germany, the U.S., Croatia, and South Korea.
Interestingly, though (and bafflingly) AON considers it a "medium risk" for the categories "disease" and "medical care." They actually applied the latter to every Eastern European country; none of them meet "modern standards." It’s worth noting, however, that countries like Paraguay, Algeria and Namibia do meet modern medical standards, despite having an infant mortality rate that is between 7 to 14 times higher than Slovenia’s. Check this graph to see.
The disease category is even more bizarre. It’s defined as "the prevalence of epidemic, communicable or tropical diseases" and Slovenia is a "medium risk." None of its neighbors are. Is something going on here that I should know about? And why does my throat itch?
You can download the map here: 2005 Risks in Global Filmmaking Map. (pdf)
(via BoingBoing)
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That’s funny because when Danis Tanovic filmed Nicije Zemelja, a lot
of it was filmed in Slovenia, because it’s comparatively SAFE! In fact
I don’t think Slovenia is a very dangerous place. So far as I ever
heard, the standard of medical care is decent too…The map doesn’t work for me, I have PDF and all that too.
Reports like these are drawn by people with only limited knowledge of the subject, mainly from external sources. That is at least how I explain the tropical diseases. Slovenija once used the slogan "On the sunny sides of the alps" ……
Thats really crazy. I was watchingPlague City the story of SARS in Torontothe other night And some of our localdocs are getting all masked up inanticipation of bird flu. Oh by theway we have West Nile summers as well.But we are so healthy
It used to be safe here in Delaware and Maryland to film. NOT ANY MORE!! We’ve been invaded by http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport/snakehead.htmlSnakehead
fish. Combined with our fertilizer run-off problem, chicken
excrement run-off problem, and nuclear power run-off problem, we are
expecting these fish to grow to the size of whales. We’re still
working on making ponds large enough to hold them at that size, though.
While we’ll be losing film site possibilities, tourist
op’s will skyrocket as we start feeding deer and small mammals to our
own version of Snakehead fish. Make your reservations early
Darko, I’d pay for that. Especially if the deer and small mammals fed
to the giant fish had 6 or more legs. Additional heads a plus, also.
Tropical diseases, eh? Does that include islands filled with palms and nice wooden huts, surrounded by crystal clear blue sea water with barely a cloud in the sky?If so, Slovenia has more tourist potential than I thought.
"epidemic, communicable or tropical diseases"I’m afraid tropical diseases are the least likely to be meant for Slovenia.
One US company for insuring us here in Bulgaria raised rates due to war in Iraq.And risk of malaria. Malaria??
Slovenia? Don’t go there. There be dragons. There be canibals. There be androids with AIDS, hepatitis and flu.And they still check passports on border.