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FEATURE LOCATION: BOULDER CITY, NEVADA Bet On A Great Location! Everyone knows that gambling in Nevada is a sure bet with casinos located throughout the entire state. But can you name the only city in Nevada with no gaming?
Hoover Dam The answer is Boulder City, located a mere 20 miles away from the glitter and glitz of Las Vegas and just a few miles from Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. Boulder City was originally built in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation as housing for workers who were building Hoover Dam. All forms of gambling were prohibited within city limits. This provision still exists today making Boulder City one of the most unique and rarely filmed locations for productions in Nevada.  "Boulder City is an undiscovered, film and production friendly location in Nevada," said Roger Hall, Director of Parks and Recreation for Boulder City. "Being so close to Vegas, you'd never think that there was a quaint and quiet family-oriented town that's straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting," Hall concluded. With a population of slightly more than 15,000 people, Boulder City Boulder Hotel offers potential productions historic buildings, including the famous Boulder Dam Hotel which was named to the National Register of Historic Places, a charming and quirky Main Street featuring restaurants, museums, antique shops, boutiques and art galleries and Bootleg Canyon, one of the world's Epic Trails.
You can't bet in Boulder City but you can cash in on a great location. Give Roger Hall and the film friendly City of Boulder a call at 702.293.9255.
Boulder Theater Helpful Links and Information: Boulder City: http://bcnv.org/ Bootleg Canyon: http://www.bootlegcanyon.org/ Boulder Dam Hotel: http://www.boulderdamhotel.com/ Hoover Dam: http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/ Boulder City Events Calendar: http://www.bcnv.org/EventCalendar2/calendar.asp Dam Short Film Festival: http://www.damshortfilm.org/ NEVADA: A SCARY "STATE" OF MIND
So you're traveling and exploring the great state of Nevada and you decide to check into a hotel for the night. You see the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah in the distance and decide to check in.
Mizpah Hotel So you head up to 6th floor and as your approaching your room you see a glowing figure down the hall. Is your mind playing tricks on you because of what the clerk said? You blink and rub your eyes to adjust, but it's still there and now it sees you. Suddenly, the illumination of a lady dressed in red is hurling down the hall and it's coming right at you! Do you:
The answer is "E" all the above. Ironically, Nevada was founded on Halloween in 1864, so it seems only natural and expected that it would boast a wide array of hauntings, supernatural events, UFO sightings, ghost towns and other bone-chilling things that go bump in the night. Think about the options Nevada offers that would be perfect for your next project or production to elicit responses of fear, horror and terror to your audience like the "Lady in Red."
Best of all, you won't need to build any sets in Nevada, as they are already pre-existing hotels, mines, casinos and roads that would make Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King salivate with inspiration for your spooky flick or hair-raising doc.
Comstock Mine Need some more creepy and crawly motivation to shoot in Nevada? How about having a drink at a watering hole in Virginia City called the "Bucket of Blood Saloon." Then there's the unlucky Ophir and Comstock Mines where little imps and spirits with invisible hands called "Tommy Knockers" search for lost claims of gold and silver. Bucket of Blood Saloon Or how about the Old Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, NV which is said by some psychics to be one of only seven doorways to the "other side" that still exist today. The legend also claims that when you enter Room 109, where the cigar smoking owner George Winfield killed his mistress, you feel the stab of a knife and then smell the scent of his old stogie. Gives you the willies huh? You might also want to ‘phone home' on the "Extraterrestrial Highway" (Highway 375, Rachel, NV for the non-believers)
Whether you're in the mood for a ghoulish tale about phantoms and ghosts that like to gamble or hang around in hotels and mines or driving along the miles of long, lonely and dark and twisted roads searching for extraterrestrial life, Nevada is the place for your camera to find it. Check out some of our spooky locations at www.nevadafilm.com because in Nevada, even the ghosts are film friendly and waiting for their close-up. Helpful Links and Information: Nevada Places: http://www.nevadaplaces.com/ Lincoln County: http://www.lincolncountynv.org/ Northern Nevada Development Authority: http://www.nnda.org/ Ghost Towns of Nevada: www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/nv.html Haunted Hotspots (NV): www.carpenoctem.tv/haunt/nv/ PRODUCTION REVENUE REACHES $100 MILLION MARK FOR NINTH STRAIGHT YEAR LAS VEGAS, NV. For the ninth consecutive year the Nevada Film Office (NFO) production revenuereached the $100 million mark with a 2008 revenue total of $110,552,900 million. "This is a tremendous accomplishment for the state, especially given the current economic climate that we are facing. The figures from the last decade confirm that Nevada is at the forefront of the film industry as a production destination." said Luis Valera, Commissioner for the Nevada Commission on Economic Development. The Nevada Film Office, a division of the Commission on Economic Development, assists hundreds of productions annually in the areas of feature films, television, music videos, commercials, industrial and student films, documentaries and other new media projects. "Our office is committed to try and make every production conducted in the state a great experience" said Charles Geocaris, Director of the NFO. "We accomplish this by providing unsurpassed customer service and intergovernmental cooperation, promoting our professional crews and state-of-the-art production facilities and by showcasing our diverse and one-of-a-kind locations," concluded Geocaris. The NFO also announced the first place winner of its annual Screenwriting Competition. The 2008 Screenwriting Competition winner for "Best Screenplay" was Cover With The Moon written by Adam Bellamy of Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year marked the 21st year of the screenplay competition which is designed to help writers with their craft, promote shooting in Nevada and ultimately get a foot in the door of a very competitive industry. Judging was done by industry professionals and story analysts at The Script Department in Los Angeles. ###
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As your heading to your room, the clerk utters in a spine-chilling tone, "let me know if you see our ghost who resides here...the Lady in Red"! He further explains that the "Lady in Red" was murdered here by her jealous boyfriend years ago. Surely, he's just pulling your leg because you are a rational person and don't believe in such superstitions and folklore. 
Or maybe putting on your blue suede shoes and singing with Elvis at the Las Vegas Hilton where some claim they see the King appear on stage. 
The road is isolated, dark and earned its moniker due to the multitude of UFO sightings reported along its route. 