These considerations all fall under the general liability section of your film production insurance. The video production insurance policy will cover the incident without involving anyone's personal car insurance policies.ĭo you have a owned sprinter or grip truck that is used for production? Will you be renting production trucks, picture vehicles, camera cars or moho and honeywagons? Let's say a crew member is driving the grip truck and gets in an accident. The umbrella covers the possibility that more than one person is injured in the facility during filming or live shows. The standard minimum policy is 1 million dollars, and when the location is open to the public or sells tickets it quickly jumps into a 5 million umbrella. When tabulating general liability, remember that locations, including sound stages, require COIs. This coverage is required by most city/county permitting offices in order to obtain a permit. Cast and crew are exempt from this and covered separately through a workers compensation policy. General liability covers bodily injury and property damage that occurs during the course of filming. They're all dedicated to horror,' said Danford.įor more information about 'The Clock,' visit film production insurance policies vary widely, you’ll always need general liability. 'There's a lot of filmmakers around here, there’s a lot of production companies, there's a lot of film festivals that are around here that are popping up. When it comes to films that fright, the Tampa Bay area may be casting a spell on the industry. You know, you're interested in horror, we have all these great stories, let me introduce you to Ruskin or Gibsonton or wherever it might be.' As a film commission, we're going after young filmmakers like, hey, come here, we have you. 'They're typically self-contained and not a lot of different locations. 'Horror is a great place for young filmmakers to start,' said Martinolich. Tyler Martinolich, the executive director of Film Tampa Bay, sees a promising future for more productions like Danford's filming in the area. And, you know, we've had great cooperation with the film commission,' said Myrick. And we shot a couple of short films there last year for our Black Veil series. 'Well, I've always thought Tampa is one of the best locations for film projects. He's a Tampa Bay area native and best known for the 1999 horror classic 'The Blair Witch Project.'

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It's a lot easier to get people to give you locations and a lot easier to find actors to work with than it is someplace like California and New York.' 'We had a couple of houses that we filmed places in the surrounding area and a place in Tampa. So, we thought it'd be really cool to film in an actual haunted house,' said Danford. 'The house in Brooksville is actually haunted. Now it's looking for distribution, and it's got about five or six other film festivals that it's going to be accepted into.'ĭanford didn't have to go to Hollywood to find the perfect location to shoot. And I love that whole storyline, and it always stuck with me,' Danford said. 'But that particular story was about this clock that was actually a gateway to hell. His supernatural feature film is called 'The Clock.' He said it's inspired by something he heard in his childhood on a horror radio show. He's not just a collector of film thrillers, but he has also created his own.

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