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Derek Cianfrance wrote the script based on the town his wife Shannon Plumb grew up in, Schenectady, NY. The film was mostly filmed there on location. The phrase Place Beyond the Pines is actually the Native American meaning to the word Schenectady..
After filming Shadow of A Doubt in Santa Rosa in 1948, Alfred Hitchcock returned to Sonoma County in 1961 to find a remote coastal location for his next project The Birds.. He chose Bodega Bay, with surrounding bleak treeless hills, quiet fishing harbor and fog.he scenes of Tippi Hedren driving her Aston Martin into Bodega Bay were filmed on Bay Hill Road, about a mile and a half north of the Visitors Center. There is a guide book with more information about the filming of The Birds available at the Sonoma Coast Visitors Center in Bodega Bay.