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.

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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.

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