September 2021 Newsletter
Tampa Real Estate Broker Sharelle Rosado gears up for Netflix series
Similar to other Netflix hit Selling Sunset, the show focuses on Rosado and her team of real estate agents as they sell luxury real estate across Tampa Bay.
What’s unique about her business is her team is composed of Black and minority women.
Tampa Beer: Crafting the Bay premieres at Tampa Theatre Fri, Oct. 15 at 7:30PM. Please join us for this free community screening, which will include a panel with the brewers themselves after the film!
Film Tampa Bay Presents: The Conjuring 3 with Actor Panel Following Film
Film Tampa Bay Presents is a quarterly series designed to showcase Tampa Bay-area films, filmmakers, actors and locations through FREE community screenings. Besides Tampa-based actor Patrick Wilson, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It also features Tampa-based talents Paul Wilson and Eugenie Bondurant. Join us Sat, Oct 16 for this special screening. Patrons are invited to meet Paul and Eugenie before the film for autographs and photo ops starting at 7:00pm, and stick around after the show for a Q&A with the stars, moderated by Film Tampa Bay Executive Director Tyler Martinolich.
Fiscal year 2021 comes to an end Sept 30th, and while we are still calculating numbers, all indications are that 2021 surprised us with record-breaking numbers. Permit numbers were up, production activity was up, along with crew hires and hotel rooms booked.
Florida being among the first states to fully reopen certainly helped, but the real credit must go to our dedicated production companies and crews. By masking up, getting vaccinated and taking safety precautions seriously, we were able to keep our sets safe, which allowed the Florida film industry to get back to work.
2022 will likely see continued challenges as a result of COVID, but also opportunities to expand on our previous year's success. Long-needed updates to our location archive are coming, our new online permitting portal will see further revisions, and the creation of a new free stock video library are just a few exciting projects coming up.
More big announcements will be coming later in the fall and will continue after the first of the year. We are committed to making Tampa Bay a community where filmmakers want to live and productions want to film. So on behalf of Film Tampa Bay, thank you for making Fiscal Year 2021 our most successful year yet!
Tyler
Film Tampa Bay Welcomes Fall Intern, Caleb Krassner
Please join us in a warm welcome for our Fall Film Tampa Bay Intern, Caleb Krassner. Caleb is studying Business Advertising at Zimmerman Advertising Program at USF and is extremely interested in the film & entertainment world. He brings experience with social media, as a casting director with Strike Magazine’s chapter at USF, and as a background actor on productions like Stranger Things and Cobra Kai!
Next Month’s Spotlight: Film Florida Director John Lux
Film Florida director John Lux will talk to us about the importance of film as an economic driver to the state, and the positive effects of film-induced tourism. Film Florida is a nonprofit entertainment production trade association run by volunteers that represent all sectors of Film, TV and digital media/tech production industry. Stay tuned for more about Film Florida.
Episode 2: Michael Nielsen is now streaming
Available on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts and Podbean
Telluride Film Festival Recap
Earlier this month, Film Tampa Bay ventured out west to experience Telluride Film Festival. And we weren't the only Florida representation in the Rockies. Florida filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project) was there with his new film, Red Rocket. Muhammad Ali's daughter, Rasheda Ali, joined the panel after episode one of the four-part doc series titled Muhammed Ali aired, highlighting her father's life with new archived footage from Miami. And Barry Jenkins (FSU graduate, Academy Award Winner Moonlight) was the special guest director of the festival. Other stars included: Peter Dinklage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Campion, Kirsten Dunst, Ed Harris, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kenneth Branagh, Jamie Dornan, Paul Schrader and more.
Notable Productions in September
RNDR Creative – Tampa Chief of Police PSA
Tatro Media Inc – Dick’s Sporting Goods
Winniepeg Productions – T-Mobile
Pie Town Productions – House Hunters
Jonas & Co – Food Network
Tampa On The Screen
Fall in Tampa Bay means it's time for Sports Photo Shoots. From Tom Brady and the Buccaneers to local high school sports, see how Tampa sets the stage using fields, gymnasiums and dugouts to capture the intensity and passion of your favorite games.
Tampa Bay Lightning: Dunn & Co. | Basketball and Lacrosse: Pete Gill
Are you still paying sales tax on your Florida Production Expenditures?
The Florida Office of Film and Entertainment offers a point-of-sale Sales Tax Exemption to qualified production companies producing content in Florida.
Qualified Florida Expenditures include:
Production equipment rental or purchase
Real estate rental (studio, office, location fees)
Set design and construction
Props
Wardrobe
Computers and software (production related)
You can start saving up to 7.5% in just a few business days! Apply online at www.filminflorida.com.
