Occidental Studios

With fifteen stages of varying sizes throughout LA, Occidental Studios is committed to excellence, providing support services to meet the diversified needs of motion picture, television, commercial and Internet productions.

Our state-of-the-art stages range in size from 1,000 to 43,000 square feet. Multiple locations in and around Hollywood offer cost effective facilities that will satisfy the varying needs of today’s filmmakers. We offer great choices and the highest level of customer service in the business.

Built in 1913, our main lot on Occidental Boulevard is Hollywood’s oldest continuously operated shooting studio. We’re part of Hollywood’s history and we treasure our ties to the by-gone era of great filmmakers, including Cecil B. De Mille, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford, who first worked at the studio as an actress and independent filmmaker in its early years. While valuing our past, we’ve also adapted to the present day needs of our clientele. Over the past two decades, our main lot has been transformed and upgraded, including adding a new multi-million dollar, four story, state-of-the-art sound stage and production center. This gated 3½ acre studio lot houses three other sound stages totaling another 20,000 sq.’ and is among a total of a dozen Occidental sound stages located throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

Occidental Technologies

As early as 1995, Occidental Studios believed digital technology would launch a new paradigm in content creation. Occidental’s early contribution to “Hollywood’s Digital Revolution” was to create, test, and rent the original “Smart Stage” facility.

By 2002, the company was offering filmmakers a robust, easy to use, and affordable system that gave client’s the ability to track all 7-axis’ of camera movement, and then use that 4k tracking data to drive a background plate. This virtual compositing environment supported digitally generated photo-real background plates, and was twice showcased by the Directors Guild of America’s Digital Committee.

Occidental Entertainment views the sound-stage as a cauldron of creative energy that can be enhanced and made more capable through the application of digital technology and connectivity. Occidental Technologies continues to bring innovative and relevant services that enhance the shooting experience.

Occidental Lighting & Grip

For the past three decades, Occidental Studios has supplied Lighting & Grip equipment as a related service to our studio clients. The overwhelming success of this production service has prompted Occidental to expand its inventory with an 8 figure inventory of state-of-the-art studio and location equipment.

Supporting our studio clients with a large, modern, well-maintained, and diverse equipment inventory is just where it starts, because Occidental’s Lighting team understands the connection between the artist and the tools. Lighting units, like the brushes in the hands of a great artist, come in many forms and with great variation and subtlety. Filmmakers “paint” with light. We care about the success of those who choose us, and we pride ourselves on our ability to stay connected to our client’s needs…, making changes in equipment lists and delivery dates…, and living under the budget constraints of modern productions.

Most of all, providing great service is a matter of staff, and Occidental Lighting & Grip has populated its operations with people who have amassed vast experience and demonstrated a true love-of-craft. Whether a large, complicated, long-running TV series or feature film; or simply a one day still shoot, Occidental Lighting & Grip will approach your project with the same degree of focus and professional support – always aware of the ever-changing demands of production.

As a newly-acquired entity that has become part of Occidental Entertainment Group’s family of companies, Tricor Entertainment deals in all content-related ventures focusing on storytelling in all media and for all distribution platforms. Through its credibility within the creative, business, and financial sectors of the filmmaking community, Tricor has attracted numerous screenplays, books, and prominent life-stories that are in various phases of development. Tricor’s projects have been produced independently or in conjunction with a major studio. Completed Productions include: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham); The Devil & Daniel Webster (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall); The Amati Girls (Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Lee Grant, Cloris Leachman, Mark Harmon, Sean Young); Extreme Days (Cassidy Rae, Dante Basco, Ryan Browning, A.J. Buckley, Derek Hamilton); Carlo’s Wake (Martin Landau, Rita Moreno, Mike Chiklis, Christopher Meloni, Theresa Seldana, Helen Slater); and The Homecoming of Jimmy White Cloud. Tricor has also owned and operated a major Theater Circuit in Southeast Asia along with a Film Distribution Company. More than 100 titles have been released, including such blockbusters as: King Kong, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, The Hulk, The Mummy, Tomb Raider, Meet The Parents, Mission Impossible, Men In Black II, Jurassic Park III, Shakespeare In Love, James Bond: The World Is Not Enough, and many more.

Prop Services West

At Prop Services West (PSW), we offer a great selection of set dressing and props. From classic to contemporary, eclectic to elegant.., vintage to varieties of one-of-a-kind pieces. Need a living room for an upscale family; or the kitchen of their poor relatives; and all the stuff in between? PSW has this and more. PSW has been providing unparalleled customer service since 1978, serving countless productions for more than three decades.

Over 75,000 items in our showroom and warehouse with new items added weekly. Collections include Stickley, Tommy Bahama, Biedermeier, and Haptor Barrett, among many others. Hundreds of couches, bedroom suites, chairs and tables. Most arranged showroom style for shopping ease. One of the most comprehensive rug collections in Los Angeles…, 100′s of pairs of table and floor lamps… and thousands of pieces of art – graphics, oils, photography, and statues – all cleared.

PSW also offers a “Virtual Warehouse.”

For more information, please call 818-503-2790 or email us at Sales@PropServicesWest.com