When Patrick Sheehan was growing up in Bremerton, he and his friends often spent their free time shooting amateur movies around the Port of Brownsville pavilion. Decades later, Sheehan is spearheading an organization, the Peninsula Film Commission, he’s hoping will encourage others to tap into that same creative spirit on a larger regional scale.
“I am starting this film commission here on the Olympic (and) Kitsap Peninsulas to kind of galvanize the cities together in order to make it a better apparatus for productions to come and shoot,” he said of the organization, which recently received 501(c)(6) and IRS approval.
Splitting his time between Los Angeles and Kitsap County, Writers Guild of America member Sheehan is bringing with him 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, where he says he’s done basically “every job up and down the call sheet.” (Recent projects of note include the Questlove-directed documentary “Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius),” on which he has a producer credit; the forthcoming Apple TV+ adaptation of the William Gibson novel “Neuromancer,” whose script department he worked in; and Slamdance Film Festival, for which he does programming.)…