Saturday, November 27, 2010

San Antonio: Filmmakers Paradiso


Whether you live here, or you are just visiting San Antonio is a great place to be, any time of the year*. It's also a great place to make films. I grew up in San Antonio inside loop 410, and when I was twelve I remember riding my bike. Everywhere. In doing so I learned to appreciate the varying landscape, in this, the seventh largest sprawling little city in the U.S. you never know what's right around the corner. Hundreds of miles of beautifully constructed Texas Highway called Loop 410 wraps it's cement arms around the heart of the city here you will find over a hundred city parks along with Historical battle grounds, and monuments, military installations including airstrips, missile silos and armories. There's old caves and caverns under massive expanses of undeveloped land, lakes and rivers leading to Spanish missions almost two hundred years old. There are two, maybe three sports arenas (depends on who's asking) all of which is surrounding a very beautiful skyline of buildings that makes downtown a beautiful sight close or from afar. All of this, and that's just whats inside the loop Being that I am also a filmmaker I could not imagine a place with more location options and beautiful scenes to photograph than San Antonio TX. (the food ain't bad either)