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About the Site:
This site was created for the study and research of Runaway Production and state and international film incentives. My goal is to maintain this site as one of, if not the most, comprehensive resources for the study of runaway production and film incentives. Resources includes: news updates with commentary, videos, policy information and an extensive report library containing MPAA reports Economic Impact Reports and General Runaway Production Reports among others.
About Me:
My name is Adrian McDonald. I am an aspiring writer with a JD living in Houston, TX. I recently completed my second law review article about the motion picture industry and the phenomenon of runaway production titled “Down the Rabbit Hole: The Madness of State Film Incentives as a ‘Solution’ to Runaway Production. The paper (and its predecessor) are available on this site and I encourage anyone to download them. I value feedback and welcome criticism. I don’t claim to be an expert on the topic and learn more each day. I don’t mind being proved wrong, because its much more important to get it right. I will be updating the data in this paper with 2010 data and 2009 data that recently became available and submit it for publication in fall 2010. When I am not writing about runaway production and film incentives, I write about LOST. Sadly, that show ended recently…the 44 states with incentive programs, however, have not.
For my first article on the topic in 2007, I was honored to be the first student at South Texas College of Law to be published in an Ivy League law journal– The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law. My article, “Through the Looking Glass: Hollywood Economics and Runaway Productions”, was publicized in South Texas College of Law’s Spring 2007 Alumni Magazine. The article has been cited by a number of published sources and provided a solid introduction to the issues surrounding runaway production, which had been lacking from the legal literature.
I have provided assistance to graduate students in the US and Europe and have assisted several university professors with tracking down relevant data. I am more than happy to offer whatever assistance I can and take delight in helping…so please, don’t be shy. I have also been interviewed and/or contacted by a number of people in the press and welcome the opportunity to assist them as well, even if I don’t get a quote out of it.
Contact me at adrianmcdonald@hotmail.com.
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Hello Adrian,
I reside in Louisiana, the state that unfortunately kicked off this national addiction. Yeah, surprising coming from a resident in La., huh?
I speak with that tone, only b/c I know full well the implications it will inevitably lead to.
I am an Independent film maker and I can tell you I am not focused on the credits. I work this craft b/c I love it.
I fell upon your website while looking for sites that carried the stats on runaway productions.
Bravo!! And keep up the fabulous work.
Kind Regards,
Daniel Noe
Executive Producer
Puzzle Vision Productions, LLC
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Keep up the good work… It’s time you visit the Chicago area
I have been doing the graphics, murals and lettering on all kinds of vehicles wether it be airbrushed painted, computer cut vinyl or digitally printed vinyl for motion pictures, commercials and tv series. I have been doing this for 12 years and up until 2 years ago very busy with almost more work than I could handle, but now almost no work in the industry coming my way or for the people that hired me ( picture car coordinators). It is very simple to me. If I cannot do what I love and am good at here, I will leave and go where I can do it. Sometimes changes are for the better.
Hi Patrick,
Do you live in southern California? If you leave for work, where are you thinking of relocating to?
Cheers, thanks for your comment.