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California On Location Awards (COLA)
A busy film year culminated in a big win at this year’s California On Location Awards (COLA) last month with Location Manager Robin Kincade taking home top honors for Location Manager of the Year for Documentary/Reality for her work on “Gold Mountain.” Mo Tebbe and Sharon Hernandez were COLA finalists for the Federal Employee of the Year Award for their remarkable support of filming in the American River Ranger District/Tahoe National Forest.
“Gold Mountain” is an ambitious documentary series produced by Chinese TV focused on the Chinese immigrant experience. Production took advantage of local rivers, mountain ranges and stunning vistas recreating elaborate scenes from the Gold Rush era, the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, and in the early 20th century, events central to Placer County’s history. Several scenes shot in historic Old Town Auburn stood in for period San Francisco locations.
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CFC helps honor location pros and public officials at the 19th Annual California On Location Awards.
Location managers and the public officials who help them facilitate on-location production were honored November 3rd at the 19th Annual California On Location Awards (COLAs).
The Ceremony
The ceremony, which was held at the Beverly Hilton and streamed live online, recognized the vital contribution of these professionals to both the production industry and the state's economy. California Film Commission Executive Director Amy Lemisch introduced State Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra, who announced the city, county, state and federal public employee winners. The Film Commission congratulates all the winners and finalists, including Roger San Juan of Caltrans, who took home the COLA for state public employee of the year.
Complete List
See the complete list of 2013 COLA winners.
Photo Gallery
View our photo gallery to see pictures from the awards show.
Senator Ron Calderon (30th District) and Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes (39th District) were among the honored guests to attend the 18th Annual California on Location Awards (COLA) held in late October at the elegant Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. The state legislators, who authored the bills which extended the very successful California Film and Television Tax Credit program for two more years, joined forces again at the gala to present the Public Employee of the Year Awards which acknowledged the top federal, state, county, and city officials to have worked with productions around the state in 2012.
COLA is the signature event of the Film Liaisons in California Statewide, the professional association of film commissioners from around the state which works closely with the production community to ensure that productions are running efficiently and to the benefit of their communities. The formal event, emceed by veteran TV actor Lorenzo Lamas, honors the top location professionals and production companies to have done exemplary work in features, TV and, commercials.
Additional Information
View more information about this COLA year’s award winners and festivities, the Red Carpet pre-show and more. Top honors went to location manager Chris Baugh, for his accomplishments on “Argo.” Most of “Argo” was shot in California as a direct result of the state film and television tax credit program.
The Placer-Lake Tahoe Film Office and Placer County has been a staunch champion of this well received film incentive legislation that has strong bipartisan support. Within the first two years of the tax credit program Placer County hosted locations for three productions that qualified for the state film and television tax credit: HBO’s “Cinema Verite,” “Jackass 3D,” and the Disney film “The Muppets.”