Maintaining the location library of 20,000 photos is one of Illinois Film Office assistant deputy director Louis Ferrara’s favorite parts of his job. “Producers always laugh when I say that, but it…
Maintaining the location library of 20,000 photos is one of Illinois Film Office assistant deputy director Louis Ferrara’s favorite parts of his job. “Producers always laugh when I say that, but it’s true,” he says.
“We scout locations on a regular basis to freshen up the library,” says Ferrara, noting that they also send letters to homeowners and businesses to help with continually growing the resource. There’s no time wasted when productions choose to film in Illinois, and no need to retread the same locations.
Part of the state’s appeal when it comes to filming is that there’s something for everyone when it comes to architectural location styles, or both modern and historical time periods. There are prairies, lakes, rivers and wooded topography, in addition to Victorian and Georgian architecture — the state can stand in for almost any part of the Midwest.
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