Lights, cameras, action: All Ga. counties now deemed 'Camera Ready'
By The Associated Press
Posted 10:45AM on Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Adam Sandler, left, and Drew Barrymore, right, spent several days in the Gainesville area last year filming a motion picture that was released earlier this year. (Photo courtesy Riverside Military Academy)
ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia officials say all of the state's 159 counties are now ready for a turn in the Hollywood spotlight.<br />
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The state Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office announced Monday that in just four years all Georgia counties have taken part in its Camera Ready Community Program.<br />
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Being designated "camera ready" means counties have designated liaisons prepared to assist movie and TV producers looking for local filming locations.<br />
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The state recently awarded the designation to a final 20 counties: Atkinson, Baker, Burke, Charlton, Echols, Effingham, Glascock, Heard, Irwin, Jefferson, Jones, Long, Peach, Pierce, Treutlen, Twiggs, Ware, Wheeler, Wilcox and Worth.<br />
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The state film office says more than 158 movie and TV productions spent $1.4 billion shooting in Georgia during the most recent fiscal year.<br />
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Hall County was deemed "Camera Ready" four years ago.<br />
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(AccessNorthGa.com's Ken Stanford contributed to this story.)
