Filming in Missouri is a film-friendly experience! Missouri is an unexpected state – with award-winning museums; beautiful wooded trails; a Missouri River cycling path running across the state called the Katy Trail; the famous Lake of the Ozarks with more than a thousand miles of lake shoreline; urban cities like St. Louis and Kansas City; historical cities like Independence, Hannibal and St. Charles; and quaint small towns like Cape Girardeau and Weston. There is so much pure natural beauty here that goes under the radar nationally. Fun fact – Missouri is the ‘Cave State’ with more then 6,300 known caves.
Nearly all filming can be done without ‘permits to film’ throughout the state. Permissions to film at locations are required and support is available to professional productions through the Missouri Film Office, KC Film Office or local CVBs .
Famous Missourians include Robert Altman, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Chuck Berry, Nelly, Jesse James, Ed Asner, Daniel Boone, Stan Musial, Scott Joplin, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Joseph Pulitzer, Josephine Baker, George Washington Carver, Scott Bakula, Jenna Fischer, John Hamm, Jean Harlow, Don Johnson, Brad Pitt, Dustin Nguyen, Holmes Osborne, Linda Blair, John Goodman, Ellie Kemper, Kevin Kline, David Koechner, Rob Riggle, Vincent Price, Ginger Rogers, Paul Rudd, Eric Stonestreet, Craig Kilborn, Don Cheadle, Chris Cooper, Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, James Gunn, Edie McClurg, Steve McQueen, Kathleen Turner, Dick Van Dyke, Jack Wagner, Dianne Wiest, Shelly Winters, Cedric the Entertainer, Redd Foxx, Kathleen Madigan, Tech N9ne, Sheryl Crow, David Cook, Bob Barker, David Dastmalchian, Janelle Monae, Heidi Gardner, Chris Redd and more…
RESOURCE LINKS:
Missouri Film Office
Andrea Sporcic Klund, MO Film Commissioner
Missouri Film Office PRODUCTION GUIDE (Find Crew and Services)
Missouri Film Office State LOCATIONS DATABASE
Kansas City Film Office
Steph Scupham, KC Film Commissioner
KC Film Office PRODUCTION GUIDE (Find Crew & Services)
KC Film Office LOCATIONS DATABASE
Missouri Valley SAG-Aftra
Maureen O’Brien, Executive Director
IATSE Local 493 Studio Mechanics of Missouri
Gordon Hayman, Business Manager
Missouri Child Labor Laws – MO Dept. of Labor
(more to come soon)