World Class Production Studios Coming to Dayton!
1913 Studios announces the purchase of 721 Springfield Street in Dayton, Ohio. The 210,000 square foot building will house three large production spaces, more than 60 offices and pre/post production support spaces that will support the next generation of cutting edge…
Local Producer Talks About “Redlining: Mapping In Inequality In Dayton And Springfield”
Filmmaker Selena Burks-Rentschler is an Ohio filmmaker, writer and director and last semester taught in the motion pictures program at Wright State University. She’s just wrapped a project where she served as the Associate Producer of Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton and Springfield…
Dayton’s Football History Being Preserved On Film
If this were the summer of 1920, Lou Partlow – known as “The Battering Ram of West Carrollton” – would be spending some of his training sessions running full tilt through the wooded areas along the Great Miami River just…
Julia Reichert, Oscar-winning godmother of documentaries, dies
Reichert, whose first film came out 50 years ago, brought progressive politics and working-class issues to the forefront of non-fiction cinema. As written by Anthony Kaufman in IndieWire Julia Reichert AFI Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning co-director of “American Factory” and…
TV Show Filmed In Springfield Airs Tonight
This past May and June The Greater Dayton Film Commission (FilmDayton) worked with an LA production company that was shooting a tv pilot around Springfield. As it often happens, the commission is working blind, not fully aware of what the production…
FilmDayton’s Small Role In Monica
As the Dayton Film Commissioner, our job at FilmDayton is to help films get made here. We’ll get the call when a production team needs assistance, often with locations.In June of 2021 we got one of those calls from a location scout…
Tax Credits Awarded For 8 Ohio Film Productions
The Ohio Department of Development has awarded $36 million in tax credits to support eight Ohio film productions in six communities, including several in northeastern Ohio. The Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit Program provides a refundable tax credit of 30%…
Dayton Made film BOY BAND Debuts
BOY BAND to have World Premiere At Cleveland International Film Fest (CIFF42 ) The HeartThrob Boyz were the sixth best boy band in the 90s, but 16 years later they’re less “I Want It That Way” and more “Ice Cream,…
Lights, Action, Dayton!
The Old Man and the Gun To Film Downtown Dayton Hollywood is coming to Dayton on May 1st & 2nd to film a movie starring Robert Redford and Casey Affleck. The movie production crew will be filming at the Liberty…
