Lights, Camera, Action!
Alaska's film industry is booming and BLM-Alaska lands are part of the action.
This past Saturday (Nov. 12), scenes from the film “The Frozen Ground” were shot at the BLM Campbell Tract in Anchorage under a commercial filming permit.
Public lands have long been a popular location for the motion picture industry. BLM issues special permits for commercial film production on public lands. The industry pays rental and processing fees under a cost recovery process. Producers of “The Frozen Ground” paid rental and fees of approximately $3,000 for a single nighttime shoot at Campbell Tract with approximately 90 cast and crew members.
BLM-Alaska has processed eight commercial filming permits since Jan. 1, 2011.
Alaska offers one of the most substantial film production incentive programs in the country. The program is attracting new film projects and the jobs, infrastructure development, and economic growth the projects bring.
Commercial film permitting is one of the many multiple uses of BLM lands. Last fiscal year, BLM lands contributed more than $112 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 500,000 American jobs. BLM is one of a handful of agencies that generates more revenue than it spends.
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