Solar Studios

What Solar Studios does

Solar Studios is a privately held, single-location boutique film and photography production stage facility based in Glendale, California. Founded in 2016 in collaboration with the City of Glendale and a team of artisans, craftsmen, and designers, the company operates a fully permitted soundstage at 3909 San Fernando Road #114, located one mile east of Griffith Park. The facility is purpose-built for film, television, commercial, and photography productions requiring professional infrastructure.

The studio's core offering is rental of a single shooting stage supported by production infrastructure that includes 800-amp electrical service, 20 tons of air conditioning, 19-foot ceilings, a parking garage, a loading dock, multiple production offices, and multiple talent areas. The aesthetic is marketed as "modern boutique with a European flavor," with custom-built interiors (including a signature staircase) designed to provide visually distinctive shooting environments beyond a generic industrial soundstage. The studio is open 24/7 Monday through Friday and is accessed via direct booking (website and phone).

Solar Studios operates a straightforward transactional revenue model: rental of shooting space, production offices, and talent areas on an hourly or daily basis to professional production companies, filmmakers, photographers, and creative agencies. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company has 1–10 employees, no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and serves a domestic (Greater Los Angeles) market. Its go-to-market is direct, relying on its website gallery, floor plans, and preferred-vendor referrals rather than traditional marketing channels.

Name

Solar Studios

Legal name

Solar Studios

Website

https://solarstudios.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Solar Studios operates a fully permitted boutique film and photography production stage in Glendale, California, renting shooting space, production offices, and talent areas to professional production companies, filmmakers, photographers, and creative agencies on an hourly or daily basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Film and Photography Production Studio Rental

NAICS

Motion Picture and Video Production (51211)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Production Office Space & Support Facilities (MPADAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Set Operations & Facilities Support (Power, Generators, Site Services) (MPADAFAF)

Keywords

• Film studio rental
• Photography studio
• Production stage
• Event venue
• Video production facility

Headquarters

HQ city

Glendale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Studio Rental: Rental of fully permitted film and photography production stage. The facility offers hourly or daily rental of shooting spaces, production offices, and talent areas for creative production work.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Solar Studios rents out a fully permitted film and photography production stage in Glendale, California, providing professional shooting space with 19-foot ceilings, 800 amps of electrical service, 20 tons of AC, a parking garage, a loading dock, multiple production offices, and multiple talent areas. The studio operates 24/7 Monday through Friday and serves film, photo, commercial, and event productions.

Product overview

Solar Studios offers a single unified product: a boutique photography and film production stage location with European-inspired design. The studio provides fully equipped shooting spaces with professional infrastructure including 19-foot ceilings, 800 amps of power, 20 tons of AC, parking garage, loading dock, multi production office, and multiple talent areas. Operating since 2016, the studio serves as a production venue rather than a technology platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Solar Studios Production Stage A fully permitted film and photography production stage in Glendale, California, featuring 19-foot ceilings, 800 amps of power, 20 tons of AC, a parking garage, a loading dock, multiple production offices, and multiple talent areas. It is offered on an hourly or daily rental basis to film, photography, commercial advertising, and event production clients.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Sunset Studios (Hudson Pacific Properties): Operates major LA studio campuses (Sunset Gower, Sunset Bronson, Sunset Las Palmas) with dozens of soundstages and full production ecosystems. A much larger incumbent in the same LA stage-rental market as Solar Studios.
• Universal Studios Lot: Major Hollywood studio offering stage and production-office rentals to outside productions. A large incumbent competing for the same LA shoot-day demand as Solar Studios, though with broader vertical integration.
• Paramount Studios: Iconic major Hollywood studio with extensive soundstage and production-office rental operations. Competes broadly with Solar Studios for in-town LA shoot days while also anchoring its own productions.
• Warner Bros. Studios (Burbank): Major full-service studio offering extensive stage and production-support rentals. Represents the large end of the same LA stage-rental market that Solar Studios addresses.

Direct peers

• Quixote Studios: Provides production support facilities including camera trucks, production offices, and stage space to LA film and commercial productions. Comparable in renting production-support infrastructure to the same customer base.
• The Lot Studios (Warner Hollywood): Boutique-style full-service production studio campus in Hollywood offering stages, offices, and support facilities. Closely comparable to Solar Studios in offering permitted soundstages with production-office infrastructure to film and commercial clients in LA.
• Radford Studio Center: Large LA production facility in Studio City with multiple soundstages, production offices, and support services. Comparable in providing permitted stages and production-support infrastructure, though at significantly greater scale than Solar Studios.
• East End Studios: Boutique LA-based production facility offering stages and production-support space. Closely comparable in scale and positioning to Solar Studios' boutique permitted-stage model.
• Hollywood Production Center: Operates production office and stage facilities across multiple LA locations. Directly comparable in renting flexible production-support space (offices, talent areas, stages) to film, TV, and commercial clients.
• LA Center Studios: Downtown LA production studio campus offering soundstages, production offices, and support facilities. Comparable in providing permitted stages and production-support infrastructure to the same LA-based production customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/solar-studios

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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