Ventura County boasts a wide variety of locations. This is why television series and movies with beach, rural, high-tech and big city settings are being filmed here.

Filming in Ventura County just got a whole lot easier. The Economic Development Corporation of Oxnard (EDCO) offers a full range of services to film and television production companies, free of charge. One of the important services, which is provided by this website, is location and facility identification. Browse or search for shooting locations, sound stages and props.

EDCO will help simplify your next project, while you enjoy the cost savings of filming in nearby Ventura County.

Industry News:

Spirit Award nominees share low-budget secrets (AP)

AP - The Spirit Awards celebrate the best in low-budget filmmaking. But within those honors, the John Cassavetes Award goes to films with even lower budgets: those made for under $500,000.

Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' (AP)

AP - The Franklin Institute's automaton can't help you find a good sushi place, direct you out of a traffic jam or check your bank balance.

Short films fill tall order as Oscar nominees (Reuters)

Reuters - Oscar week kicked off Tuesday night at a celebration of this year's nominees for live action and short films, who are among the least-known of the 2012 Academy Award contenders but no less important to the movie industry.

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