I have several years of experience in the film location industry.  I was the key person responsible for developing the use of downtown L.A.’s Broadway district movie palaces and related properties for filming in the 1990’s. I developed the marketing and promotion strategy as a means to help save and preserve those theatres when the area was in a severe downturn and prior to the revival that would follow a few years later and is still continuing to this day.

[The Orpheum Theatre started as the most popular and filming user-friendly of downtown L.A.’s theatre district, but over time, its sister theatres have also become popular]

I pitched longtime movie theatre operator Metropolitan Theatres (who ran many of the theatres since the vaudeville era) into allowing me to launch a new Metropolitan Events & Locations division that would cater to film production companies and event planners. I also started a non-profit called the Friends Of The Orpheum that itself produced live and classic movie events at the legendary Orpheum Theatre.

[Out of the literally hundreds of film productions that I booked and negotiated for Metropolitan’s various film location sites, a few of my favorites are highlighted above]

Some of its other well know theatres were the Los Angeles, Million Dollar, Palace, State and Tower theatres. And I also handled some of Metropolitan’s suburban area venues such as the Fox Wilmington Theatre and the Simi Valley Drive-in for literally hundreds of productions including feature films, commercials, TV series and music videos. Though that company has since shuttered its downtown L.A. theatre business, the popularity of those sites for filming continues to this day.

[Discovery Cube L.A. boasts filming site opportunities that are much more versatile than its primary function as a children’s museum and science center]

Through December 2021, I assisted the non-profit Discovery Cube children’s museum’s properties for location filming requests including Discovery Cube L.A. which is within the 30 mile location filming studio zone (which makes filming more affordable to production companies) and the Discovery Cube O.C. in Santa Ana (which is within a 40 mile radius of the zone, but still provides some financial benefits to film companies).

[The Discovery Cube O.C. has a captivating exterior that is ripe with potential for car commercials and other production opportunities]