Las Vegas, New Mexico Film Legacy Hits Hollywood
DVD on its way to production companies in California and New York
Contact: Jim Terr (505) 989-9298; bluecanyon2@newmexico.com; www.JimTerr.comThe little town that has hosted scores of feature films from early silent westerns to “Red Dawn” (which was filmed entirely there) to “No Country for Old Men”, “Wild Hogs” and “Easy Rider” is featured in an updated DVD being sent to over 75 film and television companies in Los Angeles and New York, to try to stimulate more film location business for “the original Las Vegas,” settled in 1835.
Las Vegas native and Santa Fe documentary and short film producer Jim Terr produced the 8-minute film, “Las Vegas, New Mexico - America's Oldest Film Location in 1992, and it won the first place “Addy” award from the New Mexico Advertising Federation for public service videos. Posted on YouTube less than a year ago, it has been viewed over 3,000 times. A new DVD version with updates on more recent films and local sponsors and contacts has been compiled and mailed to film companies. The updated sections and sponsor clips may also be viewed on YouTube:”Updated start and End for Las Vegas, New Mexico Film Video. Links to videos, a listing of sponsors, and a full listing of past and current films shot in Las Vegas, are at the website, www.LasVegasNMFilm.com . Terr’s shorts and documentaries recently passed 100,000 total YouTube views, as commemorated in this recent short: A Hundred Thousand YouTube Views. Currently filming in Las Vegas is “Beer For My Horses,” starring Toby Keith and Ted Nugent and “Not Forgotten “ and “Brothers“ recently wrapped. Las Vegas’ popularity as a film location is generally attributed to its variety of “looks,” from an abundance of “Midwestern” and Victorian buildings (the town has over 900 homes and building on the National Register of Historic Places – far more than any city of any size in the southwest – to traditional Hispanic southwestern, to mountains and plains, rivers and lakes. Sponsors of the current promotional DVD are: Melton Real Estate (505) 425-6603 www.MeltonRealEstate.com “We know and love Las Vegas” (And we know the surrounding country intimately.) The Historic Plaza Hotel (505) 425-3591 www.PlazaHotel-NM.com KNMX 540-AM/ SAM-FM Classic Rock www.KNMX.com BTU Building Materials & Rental Center (505) 425-9329 New Mexico Highlands University www.NMHU.edu The Root-Ilfeld House, a classic Las Vegas location, 1029 7th St. Cinnafilm Inc. www.Cinnafilm.com ”The most advanced film look in the world” Eva Guggenheim, actor www.EvaGuggenheim.com Las Vegas-San Miguel Chamber of Commerce www.LasVegasNM.org
