from: www.TheLocationGuide.com — Four separate organisations have partnered to promote uniform location filming guidelines throughout Southern California. The aim is to encourage the region’s 191 cities to adopt guidelines that are all broadly similar to make sure the film permitting process is as streamlined as possible. FilmLA and the California Film...
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Lights out for “Hollywood South”? Unable to Pay Bills, Louisiana’s Film Incentive in Crosshair In the world of film incentives, recent developments in Louisiana are MAJOR. The future of the state’s film incentive is very uncertain. Many have predicted Louisiana would end the incentive one day, including the state’s film office…. In April 2010,...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TV Drama and Reality Losses Offset by Strong Feature and Commercials Results LOS ANGELES – July 3, 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...
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Press-Enterprise Editorial Board & Mayor From “Jaws”: Both Willfully Ignorant of Threats The Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA) wrote an editorial this week calling on Sacramento lawmakers to end the California film incentive rather than extend it. Journalistic incompetence is one of my major pet peeves and this particular newspaper excels at it. Last year...
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from: Stop-Runaway-Production.com — “Subsidy race? What subsidy race?” –European Film Community I wrote about the European Commission’s ongoing consultation for State Aid for Film back in March. A few days ago, the EC published dozens of responses to their June 2011 issue paper. The main thrust of the EC issue paper was as follows: Major...
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from: Stop-Runaway-Production.com — Legislative “Analysis” of CA Film Incentive Relies on Hunch to Attack Program California lawmakers should ask themselves a basic question: is the film & TV industry a vital industry the state wants to protect and preserve? If the answer is yes, the only available means of defense is the California Film & Television...
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