If you are planning on using any public property – please read!
After we have received your completed paperwork and insurance rider, it gets signed by our department and the city law department. This executes the permit and makes it legal for you to shoot in our fair city.
Our webpage that also has some of these forms available: https://www.providenceri.gov/act/filming-information/
In order for me to organize your permit execution in a timely fashion, please include your shooting date in the subject heading of the email, or at the very least in the first line of your email back to me.
And here’s the story.
- To shoot in Providence you need:
- PROVIDENCE FILM AND LOCATION AGREEMENT
- INSURANCE RIDER
The forms you are filling out are designed to let us know what you are planning.
No matter how small the shoot, the Film Registration and Location Agreement must be completed, and there is currently no fee to permit a film.
If you are unsure of the exact where and when you are shooting, then I can only execute for what you know, and we addend the agreement later. If you are shooting b roll then just put ‘various (insert general area here) locations’, on the location agreement
REQUEST ACCESS TO A PROVIDENCE PARK
You will need permission IF you are using any Providence park
A POST NO PARKING REQUEST FORM
Should you need parking reserved for your vans/car/crew
A STREET CLOSURE REQUEST FORM
Should you need a street closed for shooting.
If you are stopping and shooting scenes of any kind we need details, exact locations and times.
We will need to know more detail if are you planning to
- Close Streets?
- Do driving shots?
- Anything on wheels?
- Impact traffic in anyway?
- Impact pedestrian traffic?
- Have an actor costumed as uniformed Police or Fire?
- Have an actor carry a prop weapon?
- Light a fire?
- Explode anything?
- Depict an act of violence?
- Park production vehicles
If you have answered yes to even one of these questions than you must be very clear and specific about what you are going to do and we’ll go from there!
INSURANCE INFORMATION:
The naming on the Certificate of Insurance:
City of Providence
25 Dorrance Street
Providence RI, 02903
The naming on the Certificate of Insurance if you are using a park
City of Providence & Providence Parks Department
25 Dorrance Street
Providence RI, 02903
The naming on the Certificate of Insurance if you are using a school
City of Providence & Providence School Department
25 Dorrance Street
Providence RI, 02903
Thanks for hanging in!
Feel free to reach out with any questions,
Lizzie