City Film Office touts growth

Santa Clarita reports more than $33.4M in revenue for fiscal year

The city of Santa Clarita claimed another strong year of location filming in the 2018-19 Fiscal Year with the Film Office recording 526 film permits and 1,380 film days, which generated an estimated $33.4 million in economic impact to the local community.

This is the sixth consecutive fiscal year the Santa Clarita Film Office has recorded over 500 permits and $30 million or more in estimated economic impact generated from location filming alone.

Those figures don’t include the film days and economic benefit from productions filming on certified sound stages, which do not require a film permit, according to city officials.

“The reason we see so many movie trailers and crews working around the city is because we are in the magic 30-mile zone,” said Mayor Marsha McLean. “Not only do these local productions enhance our economy – they also provide jobs to our residents. In fact, some 6,000 Santa Clarita residents are employed by the entertainment industry.”

The “30-mile zone,” also known as the TMZ, is a reference to the area surrounding Hollywood wherein productions qualify for certain tax breaks under state law.

More than half of the filming days for FY 2018-19 were attributed to television production alone, many of which were from local Santa Clarita based shows including “Bless This Mess,” “Future Man,““Goliath,” Good Trouble,” “Holey Moley,” “Mayans MC,” “NCIS,” “S.W.A.T.,” “Santa Clarita Diet” and “Pearson.”