FILM COLUMBUS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2014 Greater Columbus Film Commission Had An Amazing 2013!! Saying goodbye to 2013 was bittersweet for us. It was an AMAZING year for The Greater Columbus Film Commission! It was full of many opportunities, wonderful accomplishments and excitement that we hope will continue throughout 2014! In 2013, The Greater Columbus Film Commission, became Film Columbus as part of our re-branding efforts to make our name and services more user friendly. We, here at Film Columbus, are very proud of our accomplishments and activities in 2013 as we worked on your behalf to bring productions and crew jobs to the Columbus area! We would like to share some highlights from this past year, and some hopes and expectations for this new year, with you! 2013 Accomplishments and Activities: ~Successfully reformed the Film Columbus board with a mixture of film industry professionals, city & organization leaders ~Received city funding of $100,000 to go towards operations and our mission of bringing production and crew jobs to Columbus ~Opened up an office where we offer space for productions to host auditions, conduct business interactions and run small production related activities ~Hired a production coordinator/office manager to manage the day to day activities of the office and assist productions with answering questions, permitting and crew needs ~Developed an Internship Program ~Developed partnerships with: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Film Festival of Columbus, Ohio Center for Broadcasting, Gateway Film Center ~Attended the AFCI Locations Show in L.A. for the first time, representing Columbus and Central Ohio at the Ohio Film Office vendor booth where we encouraged production leaders to bring their productions to Columbus ~Held a premiere screening of, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, of which a large portion of the movie was shot here in Columbus over a 4 week period in 2012 ~Sponsored the exclusive Mid-West premier of The Butler, hosted by The Wexner Center ~Sponsored the wonderful feature film, This Narrow Place, directed by Sooney Kadouh, during the Film Festival of Columbus AND VERY EXCITING -- ~Started encouraging talks with a very large and prominent independent production company ($100M) to move their base of operations to Columbus to shoot a slate of ten (10) feature films over the next three (3) years. (fingers crossed) Columbus was the host city to many TV, reality and commercial productions this last year!! They kept us BUSY in 2013 assisting them with information and acquiring crew for their local shoots. If you were out and about on any given day around the Columbus area you may have seen their crews shooting and wondered who they were-well just to name a few that filmed footage in Columbus and hired local crew: Match, commercial Honda, commercial Banc de Mexico, commercial Extreme Weight Loss, reality Hotel Hell, reality Master Chef, reality casting My First Home, reality The Start-Up, reality Fred and Ginger, episodic AND MANY MORE... AND, ALSO VERY EXCITING is that we have been working with some TOP producers and TOP directors out of Los Angeles assisting them in finding locations in Columbus and the surrounding areas to shoot their feature films!! Although we cant divulge their names or film names due to non-disclosure, we can give you some hints as to what movies could possibly be filmed here in 2014! A few of the producers have already committed to come here this Spring to scout the locations we have provided!! A movie about brides…scouting small towns around Columbus A movie about a famous football coach…scouting OSU A movie about a large hairy woods creature..scouting Hocking Hills A movie about being a high school senior…scouting three local high schools AND, that is only a few that we are working with!! SO EXCITING! We hope to see big movie trucks and lights and cameras and lots of local crew working around Columbus in 2014-OH MY!! So please stay tuned for more information on these projects as it becomes available! You wont want to miss it! AND, there will be a new website launch in February! You will want to check it out!! Productions are utilizing our crew listings to fulfill their local crew needs and with all we hope to see happening here this year, you will want to make sure youre listed on our Filming Resource Page ( filmcolumbus/filming-resources/login.cfm ). You wont want to miss out on great job opportunities this year! Happy New Year to you and we look forward to talking and working with, and for you, in 2014!! Thomas McClure, Executive Director Angella Smith, Production Coordinator Brenden Smith, Newsletter Co-Editor
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:38:47 +0000
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