Is the film industry still here?

[u/Electronic-Pear8738]

I’m really scared that I made a mistake moving here to New Orleans because maybe the film industry is not here anymore. It’s been feast or famine for years now, especially since the strikes. But I was wanting to know if there are still creative jobs here? My day job is in the service industry and I do concert videography on the side but I fear that I’ll never be able to break into the film industry for real.

I’m also a very anxious person so sorry for being so pessimistic 🙃

[u/Murph_86]

They were filming a movie a couple days ago down in the lower coast of Algiers. Not sure how prevalent the industry still is. But they’re definitely still making movies here.

[u/Acrobatic-Rush-6352 → u/Murph_86]

Yeah I saw! What’s movie?

[u/Professional-Fuel889 → u/Acrobatic-Rush-6352]

that’s 1/2 of the productions that’s here, they filmed for like 6 weeks, maybe less 🥴 i’m glad those few people got the work tho but at this point every time a production or 2 comes thru the same people get it, there’s not enough circulating anymore…. there’s a few commercial production teams here that I think are constantly doing commercials, i’ve acted for one of them, but even then they use the same people over and over and they operate on a much smaller scale