The City of Dearborn is Film Friendly.

The City of Dearborn embraces the Film Friendly initiative launched by the State of Michigan. Michigan offers a film incentive of up to 42% of the amount of a production company’s expenditures. In addition, because the state designated Dearborn, located within Wayne County, a “Core” community - your film production company may be eligible to receive an additional two percent incentive for filming in our city.

We want you here. We welcome your creativity with our hospitality. Dearborn has been called the birthplace of innovation. It has a unique and vibrant history. Residents embrace growth and respect heritage. This is where you’ll find knowledgeable people who dream big.

For over 200 years, we’ve welcomed the famous and significant…..from Luciano Pavarotti to Hillary Swank, Lassie to Liberace, Bob Hope to Charles Lindberg, Thomas Edison to George Washington Carver….Banjo Conventions to Presidential debates.

We are committed to being a premier film location.

For movie-makers we provide:

Help with location procurement and clearances

Contacts with government, business, institutions, neighborhoods and churches

Information on where to stay, shop and eat

Research facilities

Skilled crew base

Story hungry local press

Technology changes. Quality and friendship don’t.

Dearborn is the birthplace of Henry Ford – named Best CEO of all time by Portfolio Magazine. We’re home to the Ford Motor Company World Headquarters, the national historic landmark Henry Ford Estate Fair Lane, The Henry Ford: America’s Greatest History attraction, the first airport hotel – the Dearborn Inn, and the first of its kind Smithsonian affiliated Arab American National Museum

We offer world-class hotels, research facilities, retail centers, entertainment venues, office space and proximity to trains, planes and automobiles. Our local chefs cater to stars from Pierce Brosnan to Andrea Bocelli. We have a vibrant multi-ethnic population, historic and contemporary neighborhoods, urban grit and wooded walkways.

To see images of possible shooting locations in Dearborn or to submit your own, please visit the City's Flickr page or view the video below.

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