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Riverside County Film Commission

Student Shoots Oct. – Dec, 2015. Paticipating Colleges: Loyola University, LA Film School, Cal Baptist University, Riverside Community College (RCC) and Chapman University

As a result of the Film Commission’s involvement in film festivals throughout the county, a consortium of college and university representatives have been formed to make this region the hub of cinematic related creativity ,and at the same time, encourage the business side of developing and distributing created content. Initial meetings have taken place to outline the educational entities involved and to discover ways to cross pollinate resources, events and opportunities. Additional education entities will be approached as the representatives from University of California, Riverside, CBU, RCC and EDA’s RCFC continue to collaborate. The objective is to have Hollywood look to Riverside County as a prominent satellite HUB for all things film. The Film Commission is seeing an uptick in student productions as our incentives offers them an opportunity to complete their film studies program without a huge cash outlay for permit and location fees. There were 11 student permits issued between October and December of 2015 from Loyola University, LA Film School, CBU, RCC and Chapman University. Promoting the film incentives that Riverside County has to offer is reaching far and wide as location inquiries and permits have been issued regularly to foreign productions. The upcoming Riverside

International Film Festival has received over 60 film submissions from countries including Australia, Korea, Italy, France, UK, Iran, Ireland, Canada, Japan, India and Singapore. For information about the Riverside County Film Commission and a database of locations, please visit www.FilmRiversideCounty.com