The City of Manhattan Beach and the nonprofit organization FilmLA have formed a partnership to centralize film permitting services under a one-year pilot program.<\/p>\n
Under the agreement, FilmLA will serve as the city’s coordinator for film permits and related services, allowing productions to use a single application process for Manhattan Beach and 16 other jurisdictions served by the nonprofit.<\/p>\n
The program is scheduled to kick off May 1.<\/p>\n
FilmLA, the nonprofit film office for the city and county of Los Angeles, works with local jurisdictions to coordinate film permitting and production.<\/p>\n
Manhattan Beach officials recently approved changes aimed at making filming more accessible, including reducing some fees and updating policies to better align with the California Film Commission’s model film ordinance.<\/p>\n
While FilmLA will handle application processing, city departments will continue to review and approve permits.<\/p>\n
“We’re thrilled to partner with FilmLA to streamline the permitting process here in Manhattan Beach,” Mayor David Lesser said in a statement. “FilmLA’s long-standing experience supporting productions across the region, combined with its expertise in multi-jurisdictional permit coordination and proactive community relations, makes them an ideal partner.”<\/p>\n
“We look forward to working with the city to make filming more straightforward and accessible for productions of all sizes and are excited to highlight Manhattan Beach as a prime filming location,” FilmLA CEO Denise Gutches added.<\/p>\n
City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Manhattan Beach and the nonprofit organization FilmLA have formed a partnership to centralize film permitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-208862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}