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***TRAFFIC ADVISORY #1*** HIGHWAY 1 FULLY CLOSED 25 MILES SOUTH OF BIG SUR - Closure Jan. 23, 2012 Highway 1 (Post Mile 22), 25 miles south of Big Sur is fully closed indefinitely in both directions due to a large rock slide near Limekiln Creek. Caltrans crews are on the scene monitoring and assessing the damage.
There is no estimated time as to when the highway will re-open.
For more information on Monterey County projects, call the toll-free hotline at (888) 836-0866 or visit www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/projects/. The public may also call the statewide CHIN at (800) 427-7623 for updates on current traffic conditions. PDF

Thanks to Katrina Mendez and the Birdies for Charity Program.

The Monterey County Film Commission thanks 17-year-old Katrina Mendez, for representing our nonprofit in the fundraiser golf shootout at Peter Hay Golf Course on Jan. 21, 2012. It was part of the Birdies for Charity program of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, which hosts the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Golf tournament. Golfers for 66 nonprofits competed, and four charities will advance to the next shoot out in Pebble Beach on Feb. 7 where the “closet to the pin” winners can potentially earn up to $50,000. MORE

2011 Scholarship Award winner - Dominic Parisi has completed his film titled "Derby". MORE

The Monterey County Film Commission brings the “lights, camera….and economic action” to Monterey County in its 25th Anniversary Year. More than $4.1 million was left last budget year, benefiting local crew, hotels, retailers, landowners, and goods and services from food markets to gas stations. Film-friendly Monterey County puts out the welcome mat to productions for their positive economic boost to the economy.

The application for the 2012 Monterey County Film Commission Scholarship and Awards Program is now available. MORE
The deadline for film students to apply for the fifth annual Monterey County Film Commission Film Student Scholarship & Awards Program is Feb. 17, 2012. The winner of the $2,000 award (or two $1000 awards) will be announced March 31, 2012.
The scholarship program was created to provide financial aid and incentive to students of film and beginning filmmakers who reside in Monterey County, or who are currently enrolled in a community college or university in the county. The fund was established as a permanent endowment with the Community Foundation for Monterey County. It is designed to help a film student work towards a career goal, with the funds going directly to the student to be used for Capstone or other film projects. MORE

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The Monterey County Film Commission was created by the
Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1987.

Mission Statement

The Monterey County Film Commission is a non-profit organization proactively marketing Monterey County as a destination for the motion picture, television, and related industries, for the purpose of stimulating economic development, creating jobs, providing and supporting educational opportunities in these areas.