Since Thomas Edison made the first motion picture images of New York City's subway system at the turn of the century, cameras have been rolling underground and in subway and rail stations ever since-from a Grand Central Terminal waltz scene with thousands of extras in the 1991 film The Fisher King and a more recent John Wick 3 fight sequence, to subway appearances in a number of television series from HBO's Broad City and The Deuce to NBC's Blindspot and CBS's Elementary.  Read the full story here.  

 

Kevin Bacon as Jackie Rohr; Aldis Hodge as Decourcy Ward; Mark O'Brien as Jimmy Ryan and Jonathan Tucker as Frankie Ryan in CITY ON A HILL. Photo:Eric Ogden/SHOWTIME

With the Golden Gate Bridge gleaming in the background, two characters push a cart up a steep hill on a street of quaint old Victorian homes. It's the opening scene of Netflix's 2019 update of the popular series Tales of the City, and it's set in iconic San Francisco. Except - it isn't San Francisco. "That's Yonkers," says Location Manager David Velasco, who found the hills and "just the right architecture" to recreate that California city just north of New York City.  Read the full story here.  

 

"Create the world you want to see.  Share the stories only you can tell," is Cidney Hue's advice to any woman who's aspiring to a film career. Born in China and raised in the Northeastern U.S., the NYC-based filmmaker and director wanted to be both an artist and an astronaut when she was growing up. Filmmaking allowed her to explore both and also led to Hue founding NYC Women Filmmakers-a grassroots community and workshop series.  Read the full story here.