Filming In Brooklyn

Our friends over at DumboNYC made us aware of this article from the NY Observer, which gives Filming In Brooklyn a mention.

It also backs up our premise that having productions shoot here really does benefit the borough and the people who live here.

Ms. Ryan, who recently worked on a pilot for Fox shot in Williamsburg, noted that it might not generally be cheaper to film in Brooklyn, but that “everything was more convenient and we were able to get a lot more locations shot in a day. Another plus, better and cheaper food options for the crew and half of the people working on set lived in Brooklyn.”

And the article ends this way:

And whether filming for YouTube, television or the big screen, film production has brought local jobs not just to out-of-town actors, but to Brooklynites. A partnership between the city and nonprofit Brooklyn Workforce Innovations has trained 150 New Yorkers for free to be production assistants over 13 four-week cycles. A new public service announcement that the Office of Film will start running next week thanks New Yorkers for hosting film crews in their neighborhoods. One version of the ad reads: “Rebecca is a camera assistant and lives in Brooklyn. She is one of the 100,000 of your neighbors employed by the television industry.”

“It was totally by chance that we started interviewing these people and the majority of them are living in Brooklyn,” Ms. Oliver, the film commissioner, said. “To your point about the creative community there, it’s amazing.”

Heading up the article is a picture from a recent Life on Mars shoot that was sent to us by FIB reader Frank G. Had they contacted me I would have given them the proper credit.

Check it out, it’s a good piece.

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