Creating Wind, Rain, Fire, Smoke, Snow, Fog, Rigging, Fabrication and Other Real “Special Effects” in the San Francisco Bay Area for Films and Commercials.
“The Kaufmans convinced HBO they could get the most value and scope shooting in the Bay Area. "Some of the most talented people working in film live here," says Kaufman, who mentions some of the Bay Area artists working on the picture: special effects wizard John McLeod; Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch; Joan Chen, who plays Madame Chiang Kai-shek; and Peter Coyote, appearing as Hemingway's editor, Maxwell Perkins.” SF Chronical 05/13/11