This beautiful and pastoral Colorado Film location is located in spectacular Coaldale.
The snow-capped peaks you see are of the Sangre de Cristo range, which runs to the west of the famed Arkansas River Valley. Your nearest production base towns would be Canon City, Florence or Salida. Your nearest major city and airport would be Pueblo.
This area is rich with ranches, outdoor and river sports, wild mountain trails, and small, low-key resort towns.
On Friday, May 18th at 10am Governor Hickenlooper will be signing into law HB-1286, 
Colorado’s new film incentive bill, at High Noon Entertainment: 3035 S. Parker Rd. Aurora, 80014.
The signing will take place in the grass courtyard behind the High Noon building. To be respectful of High Noon and their operations, please do not enter through the front entrance, but make your way directly to the courtyard.
Arrive early as a large crowd is expected.
With assistance from the US Olympic Committee, Imagination Celebration and the Pikes Peak Library District, the Colorado Springs Independent is proud to host “MOVE IT,” a Pike’s Peak regional photography competition focused on capturing and celebrating intriguing athletic activities from organized team sports to yoga; from salsa dancing to mountain climbing, from swimming to skiing.
Photos will be accepted into the juried show, which will be displayed at Imagination Space in the Citadel Mall, the Olympic Training Center, the USOC HQ in downtown Colorado Springs and at several libraries during July and August 2012, before and during the upcoming London Olympic Games.
The deadline for submissions is May 30th, at csindyphotos.com. CLICK HERE FOR THE FLYER!!!
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by Daniel Taras, Shoot Colorado
Describing the entire state of Colorado as a turn-key film location may seem over the top, but spend time on shootcolorado.org and you’ll understand our enthusiasm. Colorado is the most geographically diverse and history and location rich destination in the country. It’s hard to be modest, but it shouldn’t be too hard to convince you we’re right.
Firstly, there’s no reason to dispel your vision of Colorado as a snow-covered land of mountain peaks and ski resorts, because that’s real and as beautiful as you think. But there’s an even larger Colorado, including one of the highest densities of historic buildings and towns in the country. With more than 1,300 National Historic Properties/Districts and several living museums, a set you’d have to build elsewhere is production-ready for you here.
Secondly, it’s true, we’re a natural wonder. From red rock canyons, vineyards and dinosaur tracks in the West, to wide-open prairies and grasslands to the East; from bold mountains, rushing rivers and giant parks in the North, to stunning Old Mexico towns, giant sand dunes and wide open valleys of the South, Colorado is raw, wild and wildly diverse. Everything but the ocean, we like to say, and our landscape can play backdrop to an unending array.
But we’re more than nature and history. We’re modern metro-Denver, military bases and smoke-stack industry. We’re oil wells and wind farms, historic railroads and high country ranches, deserted towns and derelict buildings.
We’re inner-city character and emerging-neighborhood hip. We’re Frank Ghery-designed museums and world class amphitheaters, historic opera houses and famous ski towns. We’re also more than 3,236 miles of Scenic and Historic Byways, 400 ghost towns, and dozens of production friendly ranches ready for your lens.
Shoot Colorado is an industry-first: a 100-page, town-by-town guide of an entire state prepared especially for the production industry. It is a unique public-private partnership dedicated to showcasing one of the world’s most beautiful places as a top-shelf production location, and helping you find the resources and locations you need for a successful shoot.
Whether you’re producing a feature or an indie, an episode or a documentary, a catalog or a car commercial, we welcome you. We look forward to sharing this amazing slice of production paradise and are here to assist with any part of your production, any step of the way. Welcome to Colorado.
For more information about Shoot Colorado and/or our efforts to bring more production business to the state, contact daniel.film@shootcolorado.org.
We’ve officially launched Shoot Colorado and welcome opportunities to share 
links with our fellow filmmakers, film commissions and industry vendors. We all benefit from the connectivity!
If you’re a community film contact, your Shoot Colorado page comes with its own URL such as shootcolorado.org/trinidad which you can link to directly! Add it to your local websites, your email signature, and your Facebook pages. You can use the link to promote your town and use it as a marketing tool. It’s your own dedicated Colorado Film website.
If you’ve got a link you’d like to share, email us at talk [at] shootcolorado [.]org.
To add our link to your page (we thank you) here’s the details:
Our name: Shoot Colorado
Blurb: An official Colorado Film Directory featuring locations and production resources for film, TV, commercial and photo shoots.
Link: http://shootcolorado.org
Phone: (303) 668-4366
And our logo if you wish to post – in a variety of convenient sizes!
The new film incentive program is an excellent and critical step towards bringing more production business to our beautiful state.
The incentive is designed to generate a graduated and steady amount of high quality production business to Colorado, and avoiding a boom and bust cycle in the process. We are not looking at a mass film invasion of any kind in Colorado but well-chosen projects that will highlight our natural and cultural elements while creating jobs and infusing our communities with production capital. That’s a huge plus, since it allows for a moderated and well planned restoration of a detailed and complex industry.
We’re looking at production jobs and spin-off revenue percolating throughout the areas where films are shooting. We’re looking at increased tourism from films that lens in our beautiful locations.
I invite you to follow this blog to learn more about the Colorado film and production industry, especially if you’re a business owner or town/community wishing to learn about the rewards of being involved in one of the world’s most fascinating, lucrative and dizzyingly unique industries. It’s my pleasure to talk film.
Daniel Taras daniel.film@shootcolorado.org
Repost of Melanie Asmar, Westword
Welcome to Colorado, Hollywood! The word from the Senate Majority Office is that House Bill 1286 — better known as the film incentives bill– has passed the Senate, its last 
hurdle before reaching the governor’s desk. The bill increases the cash rebate offered to filmmakers from 10 percent to 20 percent and creates a program that could back up to 20 percent of a producer’s bank loan.
Film incentives have been a long time coming, as explained in our cover story, “The Reel West.” Prior efforts have failed. At a rally on the Capitol steps in February,film champion Representative Tom Massey joked, “Eighth time’s a charm!”
The bill comes with $3 million to fund the increased incentives. There are conditions, however. For instance, an in-state production company must spend at least $100,000 and an out-of-state company must spend at least $1 million to qualify. In addition, 50 percent of the jobs must be filled by Colorado residents. Oh, and the film can’t be “obscene.” Supporters say the measure will create local jobs in the creative arts for everyone from makeup artists to set designers, as well as put Colorado in the spotlight once again.
Nearly 400 movies have been shot in the Centennial State, but filmmakers have now largely abandoned Colorado for sweeter incentive deals in other states. One example: The 2010 Coen Brothers remake of True Grit was filmed in Texas, even though the original was shot here. And the Coen Brothers aren’t the only moviemakers to shun Colorado; check out our list of movies and TV shows set in Colorado but filmed elsewhere.
To read the full article, click here!
Jason Blevins, Denver Post, May 9, 2012
The Colorado Senate today passed the Film Production Activities in Colorado Act, a bipartisan effort that doubles rebates for movie production costs in Colorado.
The act – House Bill 1286, sponsored by Sen. Linda Newell (D-Littleton) and Sen. Jean White (R-Hayden) – makes Colorado’s film incentive program competitive with other states. In recent years Colorado has seen film production lured to other states with bigger incentives.
“Colorado’s beauty has always made it a desirable state for film production, but other states’ programs have taken away many of those jobs,” said Newell in a statement released Wednesday. “The passage of this legislation will bring jobs in the creative industry back to our state, bring new tourism and travel jobs to the state, and make Colorado a leader in the film industry again.”
The legislation increases the existing film incentive program from a 10 percent rebate on production costs to 20 percent and applies to the costs of films, television series, commercials, documentaries, music videos and video games.
More than 400 films have been made in Colorado and the act was designed to give Colorado a more competitive approach to enticing movie production. In the last seven years, legislative attempts to bolster the state’s bottom-of-the-barrel incentive program have failed, including last year’s push to tack a dime onto every movie ticket sold.
To read the full article, click here!
It’s my pleasure to formally introduce a new Colorado Film Directory, Shoot Colorado!
Shoot is a public-private partnership between the Colorado Office of Film Television and Media and Daniel Taras of iFilm Colorado. It is a nearly 100-page State-wide website dedicated to highlighting the incredible locations and resources available to productions considering a shoot in our beautiful state.
The goal is to get productons landed, and you hired.
With one website covering so many places, we certainly left some things out that should be included. There’s plenty of room to grow the site and we invite you to contribute your comments, favorite places and even high quality images if you have them.
We have our fingers crossed for a final passage of our new production incentive program, and look forward to serving all of you as we bring production business back home to Colorful Colorado.
