St Petersburg Honored As One Of Best Places For Moviemakers
If you want to be a filmmaker, there’s a list of places to be for the most opportunities.
Moviemaker.com, an industry source, put together a list of the “Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker” and St. Petersburg was one of the honored cities.
After New York City and Los Angeles, where is do you want to be if you’re a movie maker?
Things have changed over the years, and it shows in how movies are being made now. There isn’t the need for as much in-person contact. That’s opened up the number of places where you can live and still be part of the movie making scene. As part of the new world of movie production, Covid-19 safety is also a distraction, as well as something that needs to be worked around.
In the latest list for 2021, we find St. Petersburg. According to Moviemaker.com, St. Petersburg was involved in 15 feature films in 2020. This included Lady of the Manor and Fear of Rain.
As an incentive to film productions in Pinellas County, the St. Pete Clearwater Film Commission has a cash rebate incentive. This, along with the beaches and sunshine helps to increase the attention filmmakers have given to St. Petersburg.
You can find the full article from Moviemaker.com here.
Movies made in St. Petersburg, Clearwater, or other places in Pinellas County since the incentive program was begun in 2005 include:
Dolphin Tale (and Dolphin Tale 2)
Fear of Rain, starring Madison Iseman, Katherine Heigl, Harry Connick Jr.
True Love Blooms, starring Sara Rue, Jordan Bridges, Aisha Duran
Misconceptions, starring AJ Cook, David Sutcliffe, Orlando Jones, David Moscow, Sam Ball and Sarah Clarke
Grace is Gone, starring John Cusack, Emily Churchill and Rebecca Spence
Spring Breakers, starring James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgins
Magic Mike, starring Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum
Sunlight, Jr., starring Naomi Watts, Matt Dillon and Tess Harper
The Infiltrator, starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, starring Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield
The Favorite, starring John Schneider, Luke Benjamin Bernard, Matthew Fahey, Mollee Gray and Mason Dixon
Here are some of the top films made in the Tampa Bay area.
