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.

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