Filming in Metro Detroit begins for indie film 'The Job'

It didn't take long for the film incentives to bring projects to Detroit. Indie film "The Job" has just started rolling the cameras this week in and around the city. Interestingly, the movie is about a young man with high hopes having trouble finding a job.

Excerpt:

Writer and director Shem Bitterman said Friday film executives selected Detroit because of a look that matches the film noir project.

"Detroit has a lot of elegant contrasts," he said, comparing the emptied look of downtown Detroit to the lakes throughout northern Oakland County, where the crew was shooting a scene in a vacant house on Long Pointe Road.

Detroit, Bitterman said, won over Kansas City because of the architectural beauty of downtown buildings such as the Fisher Building, as well as the high number of vacant buildings.

Read the entire article here.
Enjoy this story? Sign up for free solutions-based reporting in your inbox each week.