Last year in Center City my car and those of my neighbors were ticketed and towed twice due to filming. Both times there were no notices posted in advance to advise that they would be in the neighborhood and the “no parking” signs were only posted the day of filming. After the second time this happened, I called the Greater Philadelphia Film Office and spoke to Joan Gerstel, the Production Coordinator, who was actually quite helpful. She promptly tracked down where our cars had been relocated to and told me to send her our tickets and she would have them cancelled, which she did. For what it was worth, we also copied PPA and Councilman DiCicco on our letter to Gerstel, but come to think of it we never got a response from either of them. Then I forgot all about Hack until I started seeing the flyers for filming around Clark Park.
So, the Greater Philadelphia Film Office should be able to answer some of your questions and certainly any problems encountered due to the filming should be brought to their attention as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Siano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:44:35 -0400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [UC] "Hack" filming in our neighborhood
About two weeks ago, I was talking with a friend, and he complained a bit about the parking situation when _Hack_ films in the neighborhood. I sorta of made conciliatory noises (I don't own a car, and I like the idea that my neighborhood's such a great location), but he complained about how nobody seemed to have _asked_ anyone about the production coming into the neighborhood. Ive since spoken to several people who live on blocks where filming's happened, and I heard the same story; it's as if someone had decided that the "filming next day" signs were all the warning the neighborhood needed.
Production companies aren't usually that callous, and there's the city's film production office to deal with, so it's my guess that the producers of _Hack_ must have spoken to _someone_ about filming in our neighborhood. Whoever or whatever that was, they didn't seem to have notified anybody about the way _Hack_'s production would affect our neighborhood.
Now I'm watching the students return, and there's the more-than-usual glut of cars along our streets, and I'm wondering if any local production in the fall's going to create even _more_ problems. And frankly, I'd rather not have _Hack_ move into some other place for filming; like I said, it's another reason to be proud of the neighborhood.
So I'd like to throw out a general, open-question thing to this list. Has there been any kind of open community discussion about this? Has there been any attempt to develop methods for handling the parking situation? Has production helped out local economy in any big way (i.e., does the crew ever eat food that's not catered?) Has anyone experienced any impact-- good, bad, whatever-- as a result of the production?
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