Writers
Screenplays, monologues, local stories, strange scenes, unfinished ideas.
A filmmaking collective in Asheville, North Carolina
Make movies.
Tell Asheville stories.
Let's Film AVL connects writers, filmmakers, actors, musicians, editors, camera people, sound people, and crew who want to brainstorm, produce, and make films about Asheville and Western North Carolina.
Not a film commission. Not a tourist brochure.
A room where Asheville films begin.
Many films never happen because the right people never meet. Let's Film AVL is here to get writers, filmmakers, actors, and crew into the same conversation so local ideas can become finished films.
Bring a script, a camera, a location idea, a performance, a song, a strange Asheville memory, or just the willingness to help make something happen.
River Arts District memory: older, rougher, resilient.
Find your people
Writers. Actors. Directors. Crew.
Filmmakers
Directors, cinematographers, editors, producers, camera and sound.
Actors
Performers ready to develop characters and help shape Asheville stories.
Crew
Anyone who wants to help with locations, art, music, props, production, or logistics.
Blue Ridge, not western mountains
Fog, rivers, warehouses, roads, old buildings, and stories.
Asheville is in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, near the Smokies. The look is Appalachian: green ridges, soft fog, river valleys, older industrial textures, and neighborhoods with memory.
River Arts District — before and after
French Broad River
Blue Ridge fog
Old warehouses
Mountain roads
Flood Gallery / River Ridge Plaza
After Helene
The city has changed. The stories have changed too.
The River Arts District should not be shown as a polished new development. It carries history, damage, loss, rebuilding, and creative survival. That is the cinematic truth of Asheville now.
Join the circle
Have a film idea? Want to help make one?
Send a note and tell us what you are interested in: writing, acting, directing, camera, editing, sound, music, crew, locations, or just helping films get made.