#367 — A Location Scout Knocked on Her Door. Now She Shoots for NFL Films

A location scout knocked on Savannah's door in high school and handed her a card. She thought it was sketchy and almost threw it away. Her mom made the call — and less than a week later, producers from LA were walking through their house in Biloxi scouting a Nicolas Cage movie.

Savannah and Dalton from Little Lighthouse Productions join us to talk about building a production company from the ground up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and what it actually takes to work in film without leaving the state.

In this episode:

- How a stand-in role on the set of Arsenal — with Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and Adrian Grenier — turned a high schooler with zero camera experience into a filmmaker
- Dalton's path from computer science and boilermaking into audio work, and leaving the nine-to-five in February to go full time
- What a real film set looks like: focus pullers, boom ops, grips, gaffers, and three cameras rolling nonstop
- Savannah's work with NFL Films — selected for their women's sports film program, then nine documentary shoots across last season, Hard Knocks and 30 for 30 style
- Shooting the Peacock series Road to the Show on Jesús Made, the Biloxi Shuckers shortstop who is now the No. 1 prospect in all of baseball
- Working on HGTV's Hometown in Laurel and Love and Fairhope in Alabama
- Creating Gulf Coast Real Estate (R-E-E-L) with Travis Page — part travel show, part real estate marketing
- Why audio matters more than video, and how a $35 Hollyland mic changes everything
- Mississippi's film tax incentives, the Film Mississippi crew registry, and why more local crew means more productions coming here
- The Mississippi Film Alliance — grants, mentorship, and the upcoming film summit in Jackson at MPB
- Gear progression from DSLRs and iPhones to Sony FX 30s and FX 6s
- Do you need film school? Honest advice for breaking in on the Gulf Coast in 2026

Whether you're a local business looking for professional video, an aspiring filmmaker, or just curious what goes on behind the scenes — this one's worth the listen.

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Brown Water Banter is a Gulf Coast show about fishing, hunting, business, politics, and the people who live here. Long-form conversations with the charter captains, biologists, business owners, and local characters who actually work these waters — from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula. Snapper season and DMR regs one week, one of the people who makes this place what it is the next.

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