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March 6, 2015
Weekly Update from Film Ontario, March 6, 2015
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Happy Friday! Heading back to Toronto from Prime Time in Ottawa - thoroughly enjoyable! Our friends at the OMDC have a new link on their website to take you directly to Pan Am info for production folks. You can get there from here. Eye on Canada has relaunched this week. Created by CMPA, CMF and Telefilm, showcasing a variety of Canadian films, television shows, games, apps and more. Check it out here. As noted in previous newsletters to you, FilmOntario continues to work actively and diligently on behalf of Ontario's screen-based content industry to protect stability and competitiveness. Our meetings continue with Culture, Finance and the Premier's office. Sarah Ker-Hornell ___________________________________________________________________________________ Weekly Update from Kelly Graham-Scherer, Los Angeles Representative
In conjunction with the trade show, the AFCI runs a series of panel discussions. I attended a standing-room-only one yesterday detailing how California's new production incentives would come into force this year. The Variety story below has further details. After years of lobbying for tax credits for California, the local industry here will be working hard to demonstrate their effectiveness this spring. As detailed in the Hollywood Reporter below, LA's film-friendly Mayor Eric Garcetti this week signed an executive order to simplify the city's film-permitting process and appointed a chief film liaison. Mayor Garcetti is also prepping city staff on how to welcome production back to the city. As reported in the Los Angeles Times below, he is requiring city employees to attend an annual training seminar to “emphasize the importance of filming to our city" and to provide a comprehensive list of buildings, facilities and open spaces that could accommodate production shoots and base camps. Finally this week, the Hollywood Reporter noted what an incredible year 2014 was for Canadian film and television industry stakeholders. As detailed below, the biggest jump in activity last year came from Hollywood movies shooting in Toronto, where foreign budgetary spending jumped to $446 million, against $399 million in 2013 |