{"id":415603,"date":"2026-08-24T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415603\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:20:11","slug":"lufkin-moves-toward-film-friendly-texas-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415603\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufkin moves toward film-friendly Texas certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; The City of Lufkin will adopt an ordinance that will allow it to apply to become a film-friendly town in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lufkin officials said that by getting this certification, the city will be promoted through the Texas Film Commission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Business and property owners can submit their locations on the application, and production companies would be able to quickly identify filming locations and move cast and crew on-site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Visit Lufkin Director of Tourism Tara Hendrix said this move would bring more visitors to Lufkin and increase tourism money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBecoming a film friendly Texas certified supports the larger goal of showcasing Lufkin and East Texas to new audiences,\u201d Hendrix said. \u201cBy being a part of these different networks, it just helps to create more economic development opportunities for our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; The City of Lufkin will adopt an ordinance that will allow it to apply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144778,144779,27,18248,29,28,144780],"class_list":["post-415603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-city-of-lufkin","tag-lufkin-film-friendly","tag-texas","tag-texas-film-commission","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-visit-lufkin-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415603","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=415603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}