Local Hero

11/02/2020

We have completed our re-branding from Local Hero to Real by FAKE LA! Same great West LA boutique VFX and post experience, just a new name, and a location in Montreal! Visit from now on at our page at REAL by FAKE!

09/21/2020

Congratulations to Billy Crudup for the first-ever win for Apple TV Emmys / Television Academy REAL by FAKE Local Hero

09/21/2020

Congratulations to the entire Watchmen HBO team for 11 total wins! Emmys / Television Academy REAL by FAKE Local Hero

09/18/2020

Congrats to Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt for their wonderful success with "No Ordinary Man". We're proud to have been a part of this powerful and important story. REAL by FAKE Local Hero

TIFF: A fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton, a transgender man who died in 1989, as told by trans masculine actors and thinkers.

09/18/2020

So amazing to have contributed to this incredible show! REAL by FAKE Local Hero HBO

The duo’s three-part score for showrunner Damon Lindelof’s sociopolitically fraught story of vigilantism is their strongest and most direct since The Social Network.

09/18/2020

Watchmen is already starting to make a lot of Emmys / Television Academy noise-can't wait until Sunday! REAL by FAKE Local Hero HBO

With a leading 26 Emmy nominations this year, HBO’s Watchmen is certainly a juggernaut when it comes to the Creative Arts Emmys and Sunday’s Primetime Emmys ceremony. On the third night…

08/28/2020

Congratulations to Youssef Delara, Andrew Sugarman, Andrew Drazek and the rest of the team for the release of "Foster Boy". We were proud to work alongside you on this project!

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures is adding to its growing acquisition slate with the lastest pick-up, Foster Boy, a courtroom drama starring Matthew Modine, Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr., Julie Benz, …

08/12/2020

HUGE congrats to Rain Valdez for her success! She was once our DI Producer at Local Hero. Boy, has she soared! We're so proud 😊

Unable to find roles for transgender women or Filipina Americans, the 'Razor Tongue' creator started a production company and wrote a series for her to star in — now she's one of just two trans performers with an Emmy nomination.

08/06/2020

Many thanks to Randi Altman, Daniel Restuccio, and postPerspective magazine for featuring how we used visual effects to make LA look like New York on The Morning Show!

If you watched the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show and believed the New York City scenes were shot in the Big Apple, that makes co-producer and visual effects supervisor Marc Côté very happy. In fact, the vast majority of the show was shot in Los Angeles, accounting for a big chunk of the 3,300-...

07/06/2020

Gugu Mbatha-Raw knew her role on The Morning Show would be a challenge. As Hannah Shoenfeld, the talent booker who survives a sexual assault, she provided a crucial turning point in the Apple TV+ s…

07/01/2020

Great article on how we created the burning house. Featuring our own David Stump and Christopher Brown!

Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” adaptation opens with the upper-class Richardsons’ house ablaze. A fire truck pulls up to the curb as matriarch Elena (Reese Witherspoon) watches from the edge of h…

07/01/2020

Nice interview with Nicole and Russell.

Russell Crowe came to prestige television for the first time this season with “The Loudest Voice,” a limited series about the life of Fox News creator Roger Ailes. No stranger to the medium is his …