FilmDayton Moving!
We've got a new home at the Dayton Mall! Located on the 2nd floor near JC Penney's, our new space will host Film Connections and be available for our members to use for castings, table reads, small screenings and classes!
Recent Graduate Steps Into The Workforce: Lauren Whitinger
Big thanks to Lauren Amber Whitinger, an intern who worked with us in May from the Modern College of Design. She helped us update some graphics, member info and had a chance to work on set with Chase Crawford on film being…
Dave Chappelle Promo
Netflix films Dave Chappelle Promo with Assistance from FilmDayton spent over $50,000 on hotels, catering, hiring local crew, including drone operators.
Attend A Table Read for A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Join local filmmaker Shaunn Baker on April 25th at 7pm at The Loft Theatre as professional actors read through the script for his upcoming movie. Reserve your free seat here. The adaptation is set in Appalachia during the 1800s, and uses…
Dayton Premiere of 9to5 – The Story of a Movement Thurs, 10/22 at Dixie Drive -In
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces. This movement became national, and is a largely…
World Class Production Studios Coming to Dayton!
1913 Studios announces the purchase of 721 Springfield Street in Dayton, Ohio. The 210,000 square foot building will house three large production spaces, more than 60 offices and pre/post production support spaces that will support the next generation of cutting edge…
Local Producer Talks About “Redlining: Mapping In Inequality In Dayton And Springfield”
Filmmaker Selena Burks-Rentschler is an Ohio filmmaker, writer and director and last semester taught in the motion pictures program at Wright State University. She’s just wrapped a project where she served as the Associate Producer of Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton and Springfield…
Dayton’s Football History Being Preserved On Film
If this were the summer of 1920, Lou Partlow – known as “The Battering Ram of West Carrollton” – would be spending some of his training sessions running full tilt through the wooded areas along the Great Miami River just…
Julia Reichert, Oscar-winning godmother of documentaries, dies
Reichert, whose first film came out 50 years ago, brought progressive politics and working-class issues to the forefront of non-fiction cinema. As written by Anthony Kaufman in IndieWire Julia Reichert AFI Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning co-director of “American Factory” and…
TV Show Filmed In Springfield Airs Tonight
This past May and June The Greater Dayton Film Commission (FilmDayton) worked with an LA production company that was shooting a tv pilot around Springfield. As it often happens, the commission is working blind, not fully aware of what the production…
