Belinda Davis
City of North Charleston
1360 Truxton Avenue
(843) 308-4747 - FAX (843) 308-4750
Email: belinda@northcharleston.org

www.northcharleston.org

North Charleston is proud of its reputation as a city that cooperates with film industry professionals. Instead of making demands and placing restrictions, the city and its residents welcome film crews! The variety of locations is second to none, offering a wide range of settings including:

• period architecture
• water frontage
• an Olde Village
• industrial setting with or without water views
• a 12,000-seat coliseum with ice rink
• convention center with 85,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space
• new, city-owned golf course with 12,000 sq. ft. clubhouse
• scenic parks
• rail yards
• Charleston International Airport/ Charleston Air Force Base
• vacant mansions
• underwater filming facility
• numerous athletic facilities

As a truly unique “value-add,” North Charleston has the ultimate back lot location – a vast decommissioned Naval Base Complex. Additionally, the city’s Cultural Arts Department has flexible space in renovated base barracks, which will be available summer 2003. North Charleston boasts professional basketball, hockey, and arena football teams. Oh, and did we mention no parking meters?

North Charleston movie credits include The Notebook, Cold Mountain, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The In Crowd, The C.S.S. Hunley, The Patriot, Major League III, Corndog Man, and dozens of commercial uses.

 

Minutes from downtown Charleston and an international airport, Mt. Pleasant’s expeditious permitting process and experienced crew and location managers, in addition to its variety of accommodations, shopping districts, restaurants, and nightlife, offer turnkey production with limitless opportunities.

Just east of the Cooper River lies Charleston County’s most balanced and replete production area. Modern-American neighborhoods, shipyards, and the Old Village's nostalgic harbor-front homes languishing beneath magnificent moss-hung oaks persuaded Richard Zanuck and Bruce Beresford to shoot Rich In Love exclusively in Mt. Pleasant. David Wolper chose the thriving town’s rich Colonial architecture, historic Naval sites, Antebellum plantations, and its creeks and wetlands for his Civil War epics, North and South I and II, Scarlett, and Queen. Moreover, this Norman Rockwell setting has recently emerged as an international mecca for the fashion industry.