Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Seattle Wants to Look Sexier to Film Productions
The Stranger: Last week, Seattle City Councilmember Sara Nelson announced her plan to introduce a bill next month that would create a Seattle Film Commission. The legislation calls for an 11-member board to advise the City on policies and programs to better develop the film and television industry here in Seattle, so if some big-brained director decides to remake the classic Seattle film, Scorchy, then perhaps they'd find more incentives to actually shoot it in town rather than up in Vancouver, B.C.
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This article explains Seattle’s want to become a bigger film production city. To give producers a bigger reason for growing the film industry in the city, Washington State legislators increased the filmmaking incentive from $3 million to $15 million, in hopes that there would be a higher population of creators flocking to the city. I think I’ve always had the impression that the production industries of the world are New York City and Los Angeles, and didn’t really think about cities trying to expand themselves as film capitols. Even coming to Pittsburgh from Hawai’i (which has some iconic movie locations such as Kualoa Ranch on O’ahu which is responsible for Jurassic Park, but I’ve never really noticed an urge for actual expansion of the industry there), I’ve seen a change in representation of the arts. I’m not sure if that makes sense, but basically I see a bigger push for expansion in the arts here than I did while at home and it made me realize how much the art scene in other places in the world are trying to expand.
Ava Notarangelo
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