Dan Swartz is the newest member of the FilmL.A. Board of Directors, having been appointed in May 2009 as a community representative. An architect and real estate developer, Dan is a Midwest transplant (1979) who has loved being a resident of downtown Los Angeles since 2005. To learn his perspectives on FilmL.A. and the Los Angeles film production environment, our … Read More
FilmL.A. Helps L.A. “Get Noticed”
Some days, it seems like everyone in L.A. is hoping to get noticed by someone in the film industry. At FilmL.A., we’re not in the business of helping you to sell a screenplay, find an agent or land an audition, but every day, we still help thousands of locals “get noticed” by film professionals. One of the many services FilmL.A. … Read More
FilmL.A. Monitors Get Kudos from Communities
Take a careful look at the photo at right. Do any of these friendly faces look familiar to you? If they do, then you probably live, work or go to school in one of the many local neighborhoods used for on-location filming. The faces belong to our FilmL.A. Monitors, and they are our eyes and ears out on-location while filming … Read More
FilmL.A. Preps Communities for Prep
On any given day of the week in Los Angeles, some structure — be it a home, office building or public school — is donning a disguise and going incognito courtesy of local filmmakers. This is “prep” and it’s a time of transformation, when real-life locations become storyboard stand-ins. If you live in the greater Los Angeles area, you’ve seen … Read More
FilmL.A. eNotification Debuts in Hancock Park, Windsor Square
FilmL.A. has expanded its filming eNotification program to cover residents and property owners in Hancock Park and Windsor Square. As a supplement to FilmL.A.’s standard door-to-door notification service, the new program will offer residents in these areas a convenient new way to stay up-to-date about filming in their neighborhoods. eNotification participants opt-in to receive advance Notices of Filming via email. … Read More