Not if you want to become an actor. You should go to Los Angeles or New York for that.
It isn’t all bad. We’ve produced a few stars in San Francisco (Anette Benning, Nicholas Cage, Sean Penn, James Franco, Robin Williams, Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone) and two famous directors (George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola). But there are far more opportunities to get noticed in Los Angeles and New York.
Due to the presence of Silicon Valley, however, San Francisco companies handle much of the post-production work for Hollywood. We have some of the best animators and special effects specialists in the business. The San Francisco region is home to Pixar, Lucasfilm (Industrial Light and Magic), Dolby, Dreamworks Animation, and Wild Brain.
If you’re more interested in the technical side of filmmaking, then San Francisco is actually a fine place to learn the trade. But not if you want screen time.
Although SF has a thriving theatre community and lots of student film work there is little feature film work for actors. As SF dude says there is a lot of post production and technical work.
Sadly Hollywood doesn’t film much in SF anymore due to costs. And films that do shoot in SF seem to be adverse to casting SF actors in any feature or supporting roles, that work often goes to LA actors who are transported to SF for filming.
There are more opportunities in LA for the film industry, but there may be some internships available that may end up getting you work in the future. My brother’s actually applying for an internship at Lucas Studios.
Not if you want to become an actor. You should go to Los Angeles or New York for that.
It isn’t all bad. We’ve produced a few stars in San Francisco (Anette Benning, Nicholas Cage, Sean Penn, James Franco, Robin Williams, Alicia Silverstone, Sharon Stone) and two famous directors (George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola). But there are far more opportunities to get noticed in Los Angeles and New York.
Due to the presence of Silicon Valley, however, San Francisco companies handle much of the post-production work for Hollywood. We have some of the best animators and special effects specialists in the business. The San Francisco region is home to Pixar, Lucasfilm (Industrial Light and Magic), Dolby, Dreamworks Animation, and Wild Brain.
If you’re more interested in the technical side of filmmaking, then San Francisco is actually a fine place to learn the trade. But not if you want screen time.
No, not much going on.
Only if it’s porn.
Although SF has a thriving theatre community and lots of student film work there is little feature film work for actors. As SF dude says there is a lot of post production and technical work.
Sadly Hollywood doesn’t film much in SF anymore due to costs. And films that do shoot in SF seem to be adverse to casting SF actors in any feature or supporting roles, that work often goes to LA actors who are transported to SF for filming.
There are more opportunities in LA for the film industry, but there may be some internships available that may end up getting you work in the future. My brother’s actually applying for an internship at Lucas Studios.