Louisville Film Office
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Introduction to 502 Film & Louisville Film Office
Along with lucrative production incentives offered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Louisville is home to a variety of production resources, including experienced crew, gear rentals, diverse locations, plus easy – and inexpensive – permitting. As the largest city in Kentucky, our airport offers daily nonstop service to and from more than 35 cities, including New York and Los Angeles, and our award-winning food and accommodations are all positioned within a 30-mile radius of various diverse locations.
Productions That Call Louisville Home
Louisville knows how to roll out the red carpet for one-of-a-kind experiences–and that includes your next production. Our city offers a wealth of locations, crews, vendors, and resources to ensure your film or television production is a success.
Production Credits
- Dead Man’s Wire
- Wildcat
- Amber Alert
- Bob Trevino Likes It
- Malum
- Secretariat
- Queen of the Ring
- Red Right Hand
- Elizabethtown
- The Insider
- The Art of Self-Defense
- Rust Creek
A Few Filming Locations in Louisville
Old Louisville
Waterfront Park
Downtown Louisville
Oxmoor Farm
Old Louisville
Throughout Old Louisville, explore the largest collection of Victorian-era homes in the U.S. and a landscape featuring gas lamps, brick sidewalks and wrought iron fences. The fall foliage and spring blooms make it especially photogenic. Additional residential styles across the city include the iconic, narrow shotgun homes, Colonial and Tudor Revival, Craftsman and mid- century modern architecture.
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Waterfront Park
Named the best riverwalk in the country, this 85-acre green space is a vibrant natural hub where nature, public art and community life meet. It is the home of the hundred-year-old Belle of Louisville steamboat, boat docks, multiple playgrounds and a self-guided art walk. The Big Four Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge offers breathtaking views of the Ohio River and the Louisville skyline.
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Downtown Louisville
Showcasing over two centuries of styles that reflect the city’s evolution from a 19th-century riverport to a modern cultural hub, the architecture can emulate a surprising variety of cities and settings. Louisville has it all, including ornate Whiskey Row, cast-iron facades on Main Street, the Gilded Age architecture of The Seelbach Hotel that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the Beaux-Arts Union Station with dramatic arches and stonework, and grand neoclassical civic buildings.
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Oxmoor Farm
This sprawling 227-year-old historic estate in Louisville, Kentucky, is located just eight miles east of downtown. Originally established by the Bullitt family in 1787, the 16,000-square-foot property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Highlights include three surviving outbuildings that predate the Civil War, two outdoor kitchens, a smokehouse, an icehouse, a spring house, a hemp barn, 260 acres of active farming, and the largest residential library in the state.
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REBATES & INCENTIVES
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Refundable tax credit of 30% of approved expenditures.
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35% credit for Kentucky resident labor and enhanced counties.
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35% on all qualified expenditures for productions within the state spending over $10M.
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$250K minimum spend for features and TV shows and $125K for Kentucky-based companies.
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$400K minimum spend for commercials and music videos and $200K for Kentucky-based companies.
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$20K minimum spend for documentaries and theatrical productions and $10K for Kentucky-based companies; $75M cap per year.
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Unlock the Perfect Backdrop for Your Production
CONTACT
Louisville Film Office
Soozie Eastman
soozie@filmlou.org
(502) 805-7850
www.Filmlou.org
