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Winter 2010
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Marketing Tucson to the World Marketing Tucson to the World
Getting Tucson locations and Arizona incentives front-and-center to the right people within the entertainment industry continues to be an important part of our marketing mix. We advertised in numerous trade magazines like PGA and and Shoot (targeting the commercial production industry) and many on-line sites like the Variety E-Newsletter, Indie Wire and Boards as well as in the international directory: The Locations Guide. We helmed a booth at the SXSW Film conference where 4000 young indie filmmakers roamed the halls and another at the 2009 Association of Film Commissioners International Global Locations Expo in Santa Monica where we took advantage of major face time with Location Scouts, Studio Execs and Independent Producers. We were glad to have Old Tucson Studios with us this year.

Shelli attended a Producers Guild of America conference, too, where she met industry-ites like Erin O’Malley, former UA-student-turned Producer for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm; Jake Rose, Sony Pictures Producer who has shot in Phoenix but not down here (yet); and the man behind Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch, Thom Beers. She also co-hosted the 2nd annual UA Alum in LA Entertainment Industry reception with the UA Media Arts, Hanson Film Institute and UA Alum and Exec VP Visual Effects for Fox Jon Kilkenny (he worked closely with James Cameron on all the effects for Avatar). Longtime Tucson friends, Location Manager Lauren Ross and Producer/Writer Dennis Leoni (pictured above left with Shelli) also joined us. Whenever we’re in Los Angeles, we schedule meetings with colleagues in the industry at the majors, the mini-majors, and the smaller companies, keeping up relationships, building the bridges that will bring them to Tucson to shoot.


Keeping It Local Keeping It Local
As a means of airing comments and concerns that Tucson’s local crew base and talent pool might have regarding the coming year, TFO organized the Tucson Film Summit, held on March 9. Close to 200 people attended, despite the numerous roadblocks put up outside the Temple of Music and Art due to Scott Ave construction. The panelists – including Los Angeles-based feature film and Movie of the Week producer Ronnie Clemmer, former Director of the Arizona Film Office, Harry Tate and then-IATSE Representative Ray Padilla, Phoenix Film Office Director, Phil Bradstock, Film Industry consultant Lorna Soroko, Arizona Film and Media Coalition then-President Noel Paynter, and TFO's own Shelli Hall -- were the panelists who provided information about the many challenges of making Tucson and Arizona the location of choice for film production.

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