Sarasota County Film & Entertainment Office Courts Film & Entertainment Business with New Interactive Initiative

FilmSarasota.com empowers the local production community by connecting them with location managers seeking their services. Engineered by atLarge, Inc., the site cultivates relationships between the Sarasota County Film & Entertainment Office and production companies worldwide — attracting film and entertainment business to Sarasota County.

Producers of film, TV, commercial and multimedia pieces can:

1. Browse the location library to scout locations by popular categories.
2. Submit a permit application online, slashing application approval timelines.
3. Create a custom Production Clipboard to save and store production contacts.
4. Email contacts from their Production Clipboard either individually or as a group.
5. Access their saved production contacts anytime, anywhere.
6. Discover local, state and federal incentives for budget savings.

Sarasota County is one of the best-kept film, video and multimedia production secrets in the world. The Sarasota County Film and Entertainment Office is making systematic steps to change this. Last fall, the Office was moved from the Sarasota County Convention and Visitor's Bureau to the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) – a move reflecting the EDC's focus on attracting and retaining substantial economic gains through film and multimedia production. The Office then acquired one of the industry's premier professionals, Jeanne Corcoran, the former Production Manager and a film commissioner for the State of Nevada. Corcoran served more than 5,000 productions over nine years in that position, and worked closely with blockbuster hits such as Transformers, The Mexican and X-Files – resulting in over $100 million in filming revenues annually. As the Sarasota County Film & Entertainment Office Director, Corcoran’s largest marketing initiative to date has been collaborating with atLarge, Inc. to deliver FilmSarasota.com, a compelling Web site with unrivaled functionality among film commission sites.

Through a rigorous RFP process, atLarge, Inc. was selected to deliver the breakthrough site. Corcoran said the task force selected atLarge, Inc. based on their holistic approach, which demonstrated that the agency had "the right mix of creative and administrative, artistic and practical, business and art, technology and vision."

The Office's earnest selection process and cohesive collaboration with atLarge, Inc. has produced many industry firsts.