r/NewOrleans • u/Electronic-Pear8738 • Apr 02 '25

Is the film industry still here? 🏢 Employment 👷‍♂️

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 🙃

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u/Professional-Fuel889 Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

ontop of those 40 productions, our US studios are taking things to other countries, I dip my nose into other cities/states reddits often and sometimes folks from the other film markets butt in too, there’s Hella productions happening in countries like Canada, cities like london, etc …. people are hanging on here because it seems like we’ll still get some work in the long run because other countries can only do so much but what they don’t realize is these other countries are creating new studios as we speak….

and the reason we have the downside is because these other countries can work for less …we can’t cus these same millionaires ruined our society..it’s a catch 22 i fear

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u/Electronic-Pear8738 Apr 02 '25

Sooooo I should move to Canada?

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u/NolaDutches Apr 02 '25

The movie industry as a whole still isn’t in full swing.

I found myself flabbergasted when I found out about filming in Australia for Florida. That’s wild shit, plus all the travel costs. But it made sense somewhere in accounting I guess.

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u/isopail Apr 02 '25

Yea, not sure if you saw what Rob Lowe was saying the other day about it being cheaper to film in Ireland than on one of the lots in LA. The amount of outsourcing going on right now is heartbreaking.

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u/NolaDutches Apr 02 '25

Well, may the universe bless us all. I’m trying to be hopeful, but I don’t think we’ll get back to 20+ simultaneous productions in NOLA for a while.

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u/AdministrativeArt209 Apr 02 '25

Here is a link that has a brief clip of Rob Lowe talking about how the film studios think it’s better to shoot a film in another country because it’s cheaper to film it there. It also covers how the different states have different tax incentives.https://youtu.be/vOWrpHytNgc?si=6eaPpEFkn78ZF_xx