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Production company seeks multiple downtown road closures, offers site fees and local hiring for period film
Summary
A location manager and assistant manager for the film "By Any Means" requested permission to film multiple scenes in downtown Newnan, proposing road closures, off-duty police for traffic control, and more than $100,000 in site fees and local rentals; council and police raised traffic and scheduling concerns.
Representatives of a production hired to make the film By Any Means told the Newnan City Council they want to film four shooting days in the Newnan area as part of a 28-day production schedule and are requesting limited road closures, parking on city property and cooperation from local law enforcement and GDOT District 3.
Kyle Hinshaw, location manager, and Jenny Ivers, key assistant manager, said the film is a civil-rights-era crime thriller set in 1966 Mississippi and that the production will dress streets and signage, and use vintage vehicles to create period-appropriate scenes. Ivers said,…
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