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Welcome to the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission

Greetings and welcome to the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission’s new web site! Brimming with new features and up-to-date information, we invite you to come in and look around to get a peek at what Memphis & Shelby County have to offer film productions of all sizes. Take a minute to browse our location library in Reel-Scout, check out our diverse production guide, or get a taste of productions that have shot here and utilized our crew base over at Film Memphis TV!

Supporting Partners of The Memphis and Shelby County Film and Television Commission:

Special thanks to Christopher Reyes, Sarah Fleming, and the crew over at Live From Memphis for their outstanding hard work in making this web site possible. Thanks also to content editor Jon W. Sparks.

The Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission, like other publicly-funded film commissions in the U.S.A., works only with funded productions and does not assist producers in securing funding for projects.

The Film Commission's Website makes available hiring/casting information from third parties. This information is to be used as general information only. Although such information is believed to be generally reliable, the posting of the information on the commission website does not constitute an endorsement, recommendation, or solicitation from the Commission. Nor does the Posting imply any assurance regarding the accuracy of the information, the funding of the project, the completion of the project, or the payment to crew/vendors/cast.

Paper Moon featured in Daily News

Fri - 22 Feb Written by Jon W Sparks

What's it like to film in Memphis? Ryan Watt, who, with partner Nick Case has the local Paper Moon Films production company, is featured in this story in The Daily News. And he knows a few things about making movies here:

"... it’s great to film here, because you can almost film anywhere. Everyone here is really easy to work with. The Film Commission. The police department. Things like that are hard to do in L.A. or New York. You can shoot almost anywhere here."

The Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission has worked with Paper Moon since its first project, Kentucker Audley's Open Five. Paper Moon has also done The Romance of Loneliness, Pilgrim Song and is wrapping up Forty Years from Yesterday.

Filmmaker Pekar back in Memphis

Thu - 21 Feb Written by Jon W Sparks

Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Pekar was in Los Angeles for two decades but has now come back to Memphis as director of film at Ardent Studios.

The Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission has worked with Pekar on his upcoming TV series "Kids of Memphis." The Commission also helped with two of his music videos, Lucero's "Women and Work" and the Telly Award-winning commercial for Boscos Restaurant.

Read Michael Donahue's story in The Commercial Appeal here.