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The Film Works campaign just posted a fantastic, easy to digest, article that destroys the economic thinking employed by film incentive supporters around the nation. They use a PSA made for New Mexico as an example and then deconstruct it. To be sure, the article was not singling out New Mexico as a target....
“Tax incentives are the common currency that draws film and television production to various locations throughout the world. While international competition is intense, the British Columbia tax credit programs – Film Incentive BC and the Production Services Tax Credit – continue to act as the key determinant of film and television production in the...
The following video aired recently in New Mexico. I don’t want to be too dismissive of the film workers there and legitimate job concerns, but the statistics thrown out in this video are just laughable, if not offensive for how inaccurate they are. Watch the video and then read below the player for actual...
The New Mexico film community really needs to stop all of its over the top drama about how the world will end if their film incentive program gets capped at $45 million each year. They want to keep it at present levels, which would could mean prisons would have to close, Medicaid spending cut...
Three recently released articles published by the Film Works L.A. campaign in California are well worth reading…. The first article, Part One: “The Clear and Present Danger” of Runaway Production to California, is the first of a two-part story about the threat of runaway production to California (and therefore the nation in the long run)...
It’s time someone points out to the film backers in New Mexico that their program does not make money for the STATE. Hopefully, this person’s views are not representative of the majority of film workers in that state, but I starting to think it is. In an “open letter” to Governor Martinez on the...
Rather than making the previous entry on this issue even longer, I elected to put my most recent exchange with Mr. Hiltzik in a shorter post. If you have not read the earlier post and exchange, please do so as this is a continuation thereof. This has proven to be a wonderful exchange and...
Variety.com – H'w'd and D.C.