Communications Director to Take Reins as VP, Integrated Communications LOS ANGELES – September 5, 2012 – FilmL.A. — the not-for-profit community benefit organization that coordinates permits for filmed entertainment shot on-location in the City of Los Angeles, unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County and other local jurisdictions — today announced the...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — Since the two-year extension of the California Film & Television Tax Credit now sits on Governor Brown’s desk, we decided to publish an excellent letter supporting the program… It’s time for California to wake up. California is under attack. In the late 1990′s, Canada devised generous film incentives in the form of tax credits...
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from: Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times — SACRAMENTO — As Gov. Jerry Brown mulls whether to sign into law another round of subsidies for Hollywood production companies, the question that confronts him is how much each job on a movie set is worth to taxpayers. In Massachusetts, lawmakers recently discovered a similar program was much more expensive than they thought....
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from: ShootOnline.com — NEW YORK, September 05, 2012, — Matt Miller, president and CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), today announced the release of its 10th Annual Survey of the commercial production industry. The study, conducted for the trade group by Resolve Market Research, a Los Angeles-based market research consultancy,...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — Filmmakers have always loved shooting around the Los Angeles area because so many diverse locations offer tantalizing story possibilities at a fraction of the cost of traveling around the United States or out of the country to film. One of the most popular places employed for location shooting by early filmmaking companies was Pasadena,...
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from: Deadline.com — To honor the life and work of filmmaker Tony Scott, the Scott family has created The Tony Scott Scholarship Fund at AFI to celebrate his creative legacy. The family ask that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the fund to help encourage and engage future generations of filmmakers. AFI is a non-profit educational and cultural organization...
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