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OWASSO — “We want to become Oklahoma’s and Hollywood’s favorite place to film.” Jennifer Loren’s words to attendees at Cherokee Film Studios’ latest ribbon cutting Wednesday were met with loud applause. “We are innovating narrative sovereignty,” the senior director of Cherokee Film added.
“The future is bright in Cherokee Nation, and I believe these studios have an important role to play.” Loren’s optimistic outlook for the future of Oklahoma’s film industry comes in the wake of the tribe’s recent expansion of its Owasso soundstage, built in July 2022, including the addition of a second studio at the 4-acre property off Oklahoma 20. Tribal leaders, including Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.
, gathered at the site to celebrate the new developments. People are also reading..
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. what we do with our resources. We’re going to lead in the film and TV industry .
.. making sure that our language and culture doesn’t wither on the vine but is revitalized.
” The tribe is eyeing one of the “greatest of Cherokee centuries,” Hoskin said, thanks to its efforts in bringing the Owasso campus to over 24,000 square feet of usable studio space to carry out various productions. Extensions to Studio A, now at 14,000 square feet, include a classroom space, a new lobby and waiting area for clients, a construction space equipped with a cyclonic air filtration system, production offices and conference rooms, wardrobe and storage spaces, an audio recording suite, a catering kitchen and an additional greenroom. The buildout of Studio B, the newest soundstage, also provides 10,000 additional square feet of space with a 24-foot ceiling that includes cinema-standard soundproofing, a modular truss system with chain hoists, a hair and makeup room, a multipurpose/flex space, restrooms, 14-foot bay doors for load-ins and RV hookups for production trailers.
Owasso’s expanded studio space complements Oklahoma’s burgeoning film enterprise that has incentivized productions to invest $50,000 per day into the state’s economy, Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell said.
“You have made a good investment as a nation in Cherokee film,” Pinnell told the crowd. “I will continue to deliver the message of the over $3 billion economic impact in Northeast Oklahoma that the Cherokee Nation currently has, and with what we’re building here ..
. that $3 billion is only going up.” Cherokee Film Studios is part of the Cherokee Film ecosystem, based in the Cherokee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma.
It includes four distinct branches — Cherokee Film Productions, Cherokee Film Studios, Cherokee Film Commission and Cherokee Film Institute. The Tulsa World is where your story lives..
