Roswell Introduces Tools To Streamline Filming, Event Permits

ROSWELL, GA -- The city of Roswell has rolled out two new online tools to help event organizers and film companies easily navigate its permit application processes: EventApp and FilmApp.

Special event and film production requests are facilitated through Roswell’s Special Events Division, which coordinates with other city departments such as Police, Fire, Transportation, Sanitation, and Recreation and Parks to provide necessary services and use of facilities.

Both tools will help staff turn around applications more efficiently, bringing all the separate pieces of the permitting and logistics process into one online system (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).

"Organizations have realized how attractive and welcoming our city is to special events and how desirable Roswell is as a filming location," said Roswell Special Events Manager Christine Ward. "We wanted to make our process more user-friendly and provide an easy way to gather more detailed information from the organizers when vetting both event and film production applications. EventApp and FilmApp present us with a great opportunity to help streamline and centralize the permitting and event logistics process for outside organizations."

Roswell is the first city in Georgia to launch EventApp, which allows event organizers to make an application online with the help of a live tool kit, providing step-by-step guidance. All supporting documents are uploaded and stored in one place. EventApp even helps the applicant and the administrators communicate with each other and with other stakeholders quickly and efficiently. Milestones are set to meet deadlines, and every action is tracked and recorded.

Movies and television shows are regularly in production in the metro Atlanta area, and Roswell has become one of the premier locations for these productions, as well. FilmApp provides an easier way for production companies to request necessary on-set services, such as police presence, road closures and use of facilities.

Roswell, Decatur and DeKalb County are all launching this app with the hopes of leveraging the success of the city of Atlanta’s FilmApp system, which was established in 2014. Many major film production companies are already signed up to use the Atlanta FilmApp system. The technology’s unified system of permitting across the metro Atlanta area will encourage productions to consider using locations outside the Atlanta city limits.

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“We want event organizers and film production companies to know that the city of Roswell is ready and excited to host them—and EventApp and FilmApp are going to make it even easier to open doors to those opportunities,” Ward added.

For more information and to use EventApp and FilmApp to apply for a special event or for filming, visit www.roswellgov.com/SpecialEvents.

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