About Boulder & Boulder County

Boulder County has a unique mix of intimate charm and hip urban culture. With exceptional rock climbing routes and mountain bike trails, as well as open space and mountain parks as far as the eye can see, you get a wide diversity of imagery, from the high plains farmland to the Rocky Mountains. In 10 minutes, you can be in a completely different environment!

Boulder has:

  • Expansive, diverse scenery.
  • The highest number of PhD’s per capita in the country.
  • Many high-tech companies, including Google, Lockheed Martin, Zayo, Ball Aerospace, Amazon, and Microsoft.
  • Over 300 miles of hiking and biking trails, 45,000 acres of unspoiled open space, and the Boulder Creek Path, which runs through the middle of town.
  • Kayaking, rock climbing, cycling, trail running, paddleboarding, mountaineering, skiing and snowboarding, and much more!

Known for its outdoor lifestyle, dynamic food scene & breweries, art galleries, and a pedestrian-friendly downtown (the famous Pearl Street Mall), Boulder offers filmmakers one-stop shopping! Here you can find scientists at NCAR, NOAA, and NIST; entrepreneurial experts at TechStars, Nobel Prize-winning professors at the University of Colorado at Boulder, internationally-known digital artists like Android Jones, and national trade groups for the Natural Foods industry and the Outdoor Products industry. Oh, and did we mention Rocky Mountain National Park is just down the road?

Because of our great weather and mild winters, Boulder is home to a large number of annual festivals and events throughout the year, including the Boulder International Film Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Jaipur Book Festival, and the Bolder Boulder 10K.

There is an article about the Boulder County Film Commission in Boulder Magazine! Click on the image to read the article.

Did you know there are other film commissions throughout Colorado? Check out a map of Colorado’s film commissions

Film Commission Staff

Bruce Borowsky

Boulder County Film Commissioner

Bruce is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer, specializing in documentaries and helping companies tell their stories. Bruce has worked professionally in film and video since 1985, when he served as the Chief Photographer for the City of Miami Beach. (Just ask him what the cast of Miami Vice was like off-screen!). Bruce was brought in to be the new Film Commissioner in Boulder in 2022.

After settling in Boulder, Colorado in 1990, he produced “The Climbing Show,” a national television series for the Outdoor Channel, traveling around the world covering the sport and recreation of rock climbing and mountaineering. Bruce has worked for over 35 years as a producer, director and cameraman, working on projects all over the world, including such varied places as Myanmar, Cuba, Palestine, Belize, Egypt, China, Israel, Patagonia, as well as racing a 72-foot sailboat from England to Boston with an all-British crew - and they won by 8 minutes, as described in his award-winning documentary "18 Days, 16 hours"!

Tom Parkin

Deputy Boulder County Film Commissioner

With his 30 years of professional film and video production, Tom’s love of film drives his enthusiasm to bring productions to Boulder County. As a 42-year resident of Boulder, his knowledge of Boulder County’s diversity of locations, crew and support for film/TV productions is unmatched. Tom is an award-winning filmmaker with dozens of features, shorts and documentaries under his belt. He is also the Executive Producer and Host of “Colorado Health Matters”, a healthcare-focused television series airing on KWGN Channel 2-The CW Network.

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