EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Tonight on ABC-7, a deeper look at whether the film ‘One Battle After Another’ could bring more visitors and filmmakers to the Borderland.<\/p>\n
This as the film won the highly coveted Oscar for best picture at yesterday’s awards ceremony.<\/p>\n
At the awards ceremony, Sara Murphy, the producer of the film, took stage alongside Paul Thomas Anderson to accept the oscar award. It was the final award of the night.<\/p>\n
Gilbert Jorgenson is the president of Leo Lighting, Grip & Camera Rentals here in El Paso.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He’s been a part\u00a0of the film and broadcast industry in El Paso\u00a0for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gilbert says the Borderland’s film industry boomed right after Covid, when he started his business with around 60 rentals.<\/p>\n
That number jumped to about 1400 rentals by the next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gilbert says\u00a0films like ‘One Battle After Another’ have steadily increased El Paso’s film scene,\u00a0but that we need to incentivize producers to film here to keep this momentum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The one thing that they say when they come back and return the\u00a0gear is that they fell in love with the people of El Paso.\u00a0That’s our number one commodity. People are so friendly. People are so welcoming, you know, and we take that for granted here,” Jorgenson told ABC-7 during an interview. <\/p>\n
“It’s the people. It’s always going to be the people that brings me home because there’s no other place like this,” said Pamela\u00a0Brouhard, who played a small role as a nurse in the fillm ‘One Battle After Another’. <\/p>\n
She says the casting director stopped by the hospital she worked at while she worked as a nurse, looking for a nurse to play a role in the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“She turned to my friend Tammy, one of the nurses there, and she was like, I need a no nonsense nurse. And Tammy was like, that’s Pam.”<\/p>\n
Pamela’s time on set was brief, lasting no more than 4 hours. She says at the time she had no idea what this was for or how well-known the film would become.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was like, mildly embarrassed, mildly in shock. And then i was just like, what is going on? Like, is this for real? It was it was really cool,” she said. <\/p>\n
In the film, her character helped Leonardo Dicaprio’s character get out of a hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“At one point, Leoonardo Dicaprio looks at me and he goes, what do you think? And I was like, me? He was like, well, yeah, you’re the professional. And i was like, a professional nurse, not anything else. And he was like, well, how would it go?\u00a0So we spitballed some ideas and they were like, oh, okay, that makes more sense,” Pamela\u00a0Brouhard told ABC-7 during the interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Tonight on ABC-7, a deeper look at whether the film ‘One Battle After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-208107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}