Santa Fe Named Best Places to Live and Work by Moviemaker Magazine

By Santa Fe County 

The Santa Fe Film Office announced it has once again been named one of MovieMaker’s Best Places to Live and Work as a movie maker in 2022, ranking third in the small cities category (population under 500,000) in all of North America. MovieMaker determined the winners using surveys, research on tax incentives and recent productions, and personal visits to most of the locations on the list, as well as the best available information on how they’re coping with the pandemic.

Director of the Santa Fe Film Office, Jennifer LaBar-Tapia credited both the City and County saying, “Santa Fe’s #3 ranking is a testament to our first class local talent and crew, various set and stage managers, and to all the creative filmmakers that have chosen Santa Fe as permanent residence. Santa Fe has been named one of the top three places to live and work for a filmmaker every year since 2016, that says a lot coming from our peers in the industry. Thank you to all the Santa Fe residents and businesses involved with the industry in one way or another.”

Editor-in-chief Tim Molloy stated in a personal email to LaBar-Tapia, “We note that the ABQ-Santa Fe film corridor is a major cinematic force. Congratulations on all your hard work and huge success in these very trying times.”

LaBar-Tapia added, “Santa Fe offers an incredible opportunity for filmmakers, no matter the genre of the script. The Santa Fe landscape is made up of 2,000 square miles of many micro-climates, productions can find just about any look they are after, sometimes even altering the script to make the Santa Fe landscape work when before it may have been set in a large city.”

For the complete 2022 list of Best Places to Live and Work as a movie maker and complete details visit https://www.moviemaker.com/best-places-to-live-and-work-as-a-moviemaker-in-2022/.

MovieMaker’s 2022 Best Places to Live and Work as a movie maker:

LARGE CITIES

1. Albuquerque, New Mexico
2. Toronto, Canada
3. Atlanta, Georgia
4. Montreal, Canada
5. Boston, Massachusetts

SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS (Population under 500,000)

1. New Orleans, Louisiana
2. Savannah, Georgia
3. Santa Fe, New Mexico
4. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5. Tulsa, Oklahoma