{"id":310461,"date":"2026-05-27T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:06:15","slug":"fort-worth-receives-international-acclaim-for-film-and-tv-production-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/310461\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth receives international acclaim for film and TV production boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film and television production has exploded<\/a> in Fort Worth over the past few years, and the rest of the world is starting to notice.<\/p>\n

Since 2015, when the Fort Worth Film Commission<\/a> was established, the film industry has driven $1 billion in economic impact and created over 50,000 jobs in Cowtown. Several major productions have filmed in the city, including \u201cLandman,\u201d \u201cLioness\u201d and \u201cDutton Ranch.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth, and the Fort Worth Film Commission, were honored last week with the Emerging Location Award at the Global Production Awards<\/a> in Cannes, France.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn just 10 years, the Fort Worth Film Commission has grown from a new office to attracting top film and TV projects, like Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u2018Landman,\u2019 which was the third most-watched original series of 2025,\u201d film commissioner Taylor Hardy said in a statement. \u201cWe have worked diligently to strengthen Fort Worth\u2019s film economy and international image; this recognition solidifies our position as a premier production destination.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fort Worth wins big in France<\/p>\n

Founded in 2023 by Screen International, the Global Production Awards<\/a> celebrate film productions, commissions, locations and more.<\/p>\n

The Emerging Location Award is awarded to a film commission that demonstrates \u201can increased number of productions, attractive incentives, improved levels of service, growing crew base and infrastructure, as well as a variety of filming locations,\u201d according to Screen International.<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition, the judges examined evidence of the emerging location\u2019s problem-solving approach, customer service, community contribution and all the location has to offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cFort Worth has come out of nowhere in the last decade. With the new incentive and volume of production, the location has become quite a powerhouse,\u201d one judge at the ceremony said.<\/p>\n

\"Venia<\/p>\n

Venia Vergou , network manager at the European Film Commissions Network, and Fort Worth Film Commissioner Taylor Hardy at the 2026 Global Production Awards in Cannes, France, on Monday, May 18, 2026.<\/p>\n

Nearly 30 judges, mostly international entertainment executives representing studios and film commissions, comprised the awards panel.<\/p>\n

In April, the Global Production Awards announced Fort Worth as a shortlist finalist<\/a> for the Emerging Location Award alongside El Paso, Slovakia, Spain and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n

Also at last week\u2019s ceremony, the Dallas Film Commission was awarded the Economic and Social Impact Award for its Pegasus Media Project.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Film and television production has exploded in Fort Worth over the past few years, and the rest of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[29534,93605,111978,111979,18242,116,118,117,111980],"class_list":["post-310461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-dutton-ranch","tag-film-and-television-production","tag-film-commission","tag-film-commissions","tag-film-industry","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-major-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310461","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=310461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}