Dept. of Commerce Secretary Jim Fain led a film industry sales mission to Hollywood to promote the state’s newly-passed film incentives. Accompanied by Tourism, Film and Sports Development Director Lynn Minges, Bill Arnold and Joan Alford of the N.C. Film Office, regional film commissioners and members of the N.C. film industry, the Secretary is hosted a reception for more than 100 top industry executives on Wednesday evening.
The Secretary and Commerce officials will also be meeting with studio production and finance executives, producers, directors and other industry operatives. Regional film commissioners and assorted representatives of North Carolina’s film industry will also make calls during the week to promote filming in the state.
Film incentives providing for a 15 percent return on in-state production spending on goods, services and labor for production companies that reach a spending threshold of $250,000 were passed by the legislature earlier this month and signed into law by Gov. Mike Easley on Aug. 13. The new measures are expected to increase film and television production statewide and maintain North Carolina’s 20-year reign as the No. 3 filmmaking state in the nation, according to Film Office Director Bill Arnold. Several projects currently filming in the state or about to have cited the incentives as one reason they're working here.
Here's what the Raleigh News and Observer has to say about it: N.C. FILM PROPONENTS HOPE TO LURE A-LISTERS
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