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seeking Cosby Tennessee Film Enthusiasts?
- Thread starter UnkaRay
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I have been looking to move to the Cosby area. I even put an offer
on a place last year but was outbid.
on a place last year but was outbid.
There are a couple of working crew based in Newport, and up the road in Greenville. But you’ll have to go a couple counties west to the “big city” to find most of the filmmakers in the area.
There’s also a group of indie filmmakers up in the Tri-Cities area, mostly Bristol and Johnson City.
There’s also a group of indie filmmakers up in the Tri-Cities area, mostly Bristol and Johnson City.
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I've lived in Cosby for thirty years, and as far as video enthusiasts it is a dry desert.
Like I said, there are a couple of working crew based in that area, but most of the production is in Knoxville.
That’s the professional side, though. As far as enthusiasts, hobbyists, and indie amateurs… no clue what’s around Cocke Co. Again, look to Knoxville, and up toward Tri-Cities.
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The opportunities are drying up here in Los Angeles. I've done 33 production days
in 2025. Most of those were in SPFX. I have directed only three music videos and
been second unit director on two movies.
I've aged out of reality TV camera work – tired of running around with 40lbs of camera
on my shoulder. I make 75% of my living doing live shows and fireworks now.
In 2024 I did a couple of weeks consulting on a fireworks show at Dollywood and
fell in love with the area. I wouldn't mind winding down my career doing cheesy diner
theater – and Pigeon Forge has those in spades!
I'll keep checking. Or maybe move out there and rent for a while.
I don't know about opportunities, but I can say Knoxville has been trying to sell itself as a movie making venue for some time.
There’s a lot of production happening in Knoxville. Lots of true crime recreation programming, quite a bit of commercial production, and there are films coming in. It was once the third largest producer of cable network programming, behind NYC and LA, but that’s slipped over the years… especially since Scripps Networks got Zaslaved into Discovery and then Warner Bros. Discovery. But still, there’s a lot of stuff going on.
Cocke Co. is close enough to Knoxville to live in the former and pick up some work in the latter. Walland and Townsend are also (@directorik) close enough to be accessible to Knoxville while being basically local to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg/GSMNP.