San Diego Film Industry Focus Of New KPBS Series

If you Google films shot in San Diego you will find a long list. Is not always easy for San Diego snowmaking community to get exposure and attention it deserves. I knew series on KQDS-TV goes behind the scenes to highlight the efforts of the Lakers and the work being done. The series is called them in Diego. Turning the other series hosts, Dallas McLaughlin and producer Jody. Jody, do we see movies being made in this TV series. Easy independent local films being made. From action films to black and white, comedies, documentaries, etc. The San Diego have a reputation as a good place to shoot film? From a weather point of view it's one of the easiest places. We have a growing and thriving film community so there's a lot of resources in the network to produce a lot of films currently. How did you get involved in this project? I stumbled into an audition room and that is pretty much how Jodie knew me through another person in town. We connected through that and I found a post on Facebook. I thought this may be something I can do. I didn't and she liked it. Now here we are. You must be learning a lot. I come from stage and live performance. And going at it like the viewer. Every episode, the emotions you see on my face are real. Had no idea there was such a huge community in San Diego. Everywhere we look, their small production groups on almost every street. They are all doing amazing work. With the technology we have, everyone can do this on their own. We have a community to back you up, so why not try it? You may fail, but the one success you have will be huge. Is alarming. In a good way. May be scary sometimes. It's fun to learn about it as we went through the series and is still so much I don't know. How far back to San Diego snowmaking history go? Part of our series goes into the history of film in San Diego. It very much goes back to the beginning. A lot of the Hollywood production dried up here. In the wake of that and since then we have been able to generate a local community. People generate arts from here and being able to push that out. When you say local production, obviously these are companies that are located in San Diego. Is this talent coming down LA also? It's a mix. A lot of people bring their own skill set to the table and leverage connections they have two connectors with actors and production crews up there to also help add to the production down here. A lot of it's happening here. You can make films anywhere now. The axis II funding and distribution is all changing right now. The ability to make something in San Diego without leaving has become more and more of an opportunity and more of something we can do. When we see those genuine reaction shots of your face, what are you reacting to? What aspects of the making are we seeing?, The directing, the makeup, what goes into it? Every aspect. I worked on a few TV shows and LA with these gigantic cruise. One just for cupcakes. We get to San Diego where it's just as important and professional work being done with these small cruise. It's people living their voices as they go. It's amazing to see. If you're going to do something in San Diego, you have to be a jack of all trades. Some of the reactions you'll see is me talking to a director and they say after directing it took a month to edit. I ask with the edit is because they want to learn and enjoy the aspect and they have to. It's things being done by so many people and they are all working together. That is the most amazing part. Your the founder of San Diego's film consortium. We do a lot of things, we produce the San Diego film awards and local film festivals and networking events. To have any idea how big and history -- and industry though making is here. Our focus has been to generate something here and build. With the city working to rekey eight -- we create outside productions -- with all the different filmmakers, what you will see with the film and the show is Dallas goes and engages anoraks with these people in highly comical ways. It's a mix of documentary and fiction. What you really see is there are a lot of the makers here. That is great but what we really hope to do is bring a lot of support to that. We want to be doing longer things. How we do that making short films, you can't make a feature without money and investors. The city of San Diego's film commission was dismantled. There has been some movement about bringing that the commission back which would bring in some resources out of San Diego. Where does that effort stand now? It's a little bit of a long story. They are doing a market study to see what kind of film office would benefit the region. Next up after those two are completed would be an RFP. They will bid the project or put a proposal out there for people to propose their ideas of the way they would handle the needs of a feature film office. Those in the pipeline? Yes. We have great champions. It's a clean industry and they bring a lot of jobs. The County supervisor has put in a lot of effort as well to help bring this to fruition. It's kind of a perfect storm right now. You have the city efforts to bring productions to San Diego and market San Diego as a region for filmmaking. For inside look in that local though making QC, you can see the series film in Diego. The next episode is Thursday night at 11 on KBS TV. I've been talking to the series hosts.