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CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — Would you ever want to turn your home into a movie set? A new website is being created to draw production crews to Champaign-Urbana.
Experience Champaign-Urbana is creating the new database to help filmmakers find locations that best fit their project. Mark Brown, Director of Sports and Film, said they will be able to select from public or private locations.
“Downtown Urbana and downtown Champaign have kind of unique exteriors that filmmakers might be interested in,” Brown said. “But for thinking about private locations, sometimes a filmmaker, for example, might be looking for a 1950s kitchen that they want to film in. And so if there’s a home that’s in the area that features that, we would be able to make that connection for them.”
The company’s goal is to have the public locations posted on their website by the end of February. They will send a notice out for private locations if people would like to open up their homes for filmmakers.
