Sunday, October 26, 2008
Proposed legislation billed as means of luring film industry into state
cleveland.com: "Ivan Schwarz, who as executive director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission remains a force behind the bill, says incentives are necessary if Ohio is to gain a slice of the $60 billion film industry."
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I always read about all the tax credits for film and TV studios that are designed them to shoot on location. I can't help but wonder why there are no incentives to bring theatre productions in to workshop or preview. I guess we just don't spend widely enough to justify enticing us in. Oh well.
Aaron brings up an interesting point...Also though I agree with Schwartz in that Ohio citizens should be able to work on film shoots and big movies such as Spiderman should have to hire citizens of the local area. I'm sure that this would make some productions nearly impossible such as Spiderman but it would make other films easier to make. It's intersting also to think about the economic structure once again when looking at this. In a way flying a film crew to Ohio is helping the economy because it is helping all of the starving airlines and any other means for transportation but then again it is also spreading the wealth by hiring local citizens.
Should films need to hire exclusively a local crew? If the incentives are good enough, then films will get shot there all the time and people will move to the city. Then again, when the next city/state gives a better offer the films will move and the crew will have to find new work.
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