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The Lafayette Entertainment Initiative
Lafayette, Louisiana, a city of innovation and artistic expression, launched the Lafayette Entertainment Initiative to promote its viability as a prime destination for creative content production. As a forward-thinking, technologically-advanced city, Lafayette is currently recruiting film, music & digital media production companies to participate in its development of next-generation infrastructure. Lafayette is distinguishing itself as a high-tech epicenter focused on smart growth and innovative economic development.
What Sets Us Apart?
Lafayette, LA offers truly unique and cutting-edge resources to the Entertainment Industry
City-wide Fiber-Optic Connectivity to the Premise
Currently providing broadband connectivity to businesses over a 125 mile, 96 strand fiber loop. Lafayette is the first municipality-owned wired city in Louisiana, and with the launch of the Fiber to the Premise Initiative, Lafayette is becoming one of the most wired communities in the world. The initiative creates a viable infrastructure to sustain the robust demands of post-production companies to produce entertainment content and globally exchange data at bleeding-edge speeds from anywhere in our community.
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Interprise (LITE)
A $27 million, 70,000 square foot complex, LITE is one of the most comprehensive and tightly integrated visualization and high performance computing installations in the world. Powered by graphic supercomputers enabling clients to visualize volumes of complex data, LITE's capabilities and services bridge the gap in time and space between production studios, processing laboratories and post-production houses. LITE is exploring additional ground-breaking methodologies to service the entertainment industry while poised to respond to its immediate needs.
Industry Training Programs
Lafayette is producing a viable labor pool for film, music, and digital media production. Industry-tailored curricula at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), Moving Image Arts and Lafayette's Community & Technical College campuses offer entertainment career pathways utilizing current camera, music, animation, motion capture, and video game development resources.
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