How vendors, services and locations find productions to pitch
Updated September 15, 2026 · Production List
Productions buy most of their services in pre-production and choose most of their locations in the same window, so a vendor or location owner needs to know about a production in the weeks after it is announced and before it starts shooting. The people who decide are the unit production manager and production coordinator for services, the location manager for places, and the department heads for anything specific to their department.
In pre-production, shooting within 60 days
154 productions in pre-production with a published shoot start in the 60 days after October 17, 2026. Soonest first.
- The Sound of the Sun · Feature Film · Traverse City, MI
- The Forgotten Friend · Play · New York, NY
- Icebreaker · Vancouver, BC
- Atmosphere · Feature Film · Atlanta, GA
- Untitled Holiday Slasher · Feature Film · Los Angeles, CA
- Dollkeeper · Feature Film · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Great Men: The Major Motion Picture · Feature Film · New York, NY
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat · Musicals · Deal Park, NJ
- American Trip · Feature Film · CA
- It's a Wonderful Life · Theater · Covina, CA
- The Neighbor · Feature Film · South Africa
- Desperate Covenant · Feature Film · Chicago, IL
Only productions with a published start date are shown. All productions in pre-production →
Stage decides everything
In development, a production has no budget to spend and no office to pitch to. In pre-production it has both, and it is making the decisions a vendor cares about: equipment rental, catering, transportation, lodging, stages, locations. In production it is spending on what it already chose and buying only what breaks. A pitch that lands in pre-production is a pitch; one that lands in production is a cold call.
That makes a production’s stage and shoot start the two facts a vendor needs before anything else. The list below shows productions currently in pre-production with a shoot start within 60 days: the ones deciding now.
Who to send it to
Services with a line in the budget (catering, transport, rentals, security, lodging) go to the UPM through the production coordinator. Anything specific to a department (a camera package, a stunt rig, a costume house) goes to that department head. Locations go to the location manager, and if none is named yet, to the production office marked for locations. Film offices and regional film commissions maintain their own lists of incoming productions and often route local vendors; register with yours.
What Production List holds for this
Each listing carries the stage, shoot dates, locations and the companies and people attached, so a vendor can filter to pre-production in their market and see who is decision-making. Office contacts are on file for members. Teams that need this at volume, a regional film commission or a national rental house, use the Data API for the same data as a feed.
Common questions
- When should a vendor pitch a production?
- In pre-production, after the production office opens and before shooting starts. That is when budgets are allocated and suppliers chosen.
- Who chooses vendors on a production?
- The unit production manager for budgeted services, through the production coordinator; department heads for department-specific suppliers; the location manager for locations.
- How do film offices learn about incoming productions?
- Through incentive and permit applications, trade announcements, and tracking directories. Many publish a current productions list and route local vendors to incoming productions.
Source: Production List, published by the Film & Television Industry Alliance. Cite this page as https://www.productionlist.com/guides/how-vendors-and-locations-find-film-productions-to-pitch (updated September 15, 2026).