Updated with MPAA statement: Gov. Jerry Brown signed a a five-year extension of California’s film incentives program Wednesday, extending the state’s production tax credit system to 2025. The move will provide an additional $1.65 billion to qualified film and TV shows shot in the state.
The program was part of a $139 billion state budget that marks Brown’s last as governor.
The extension was greeted with euphoria by a coalition of industry unions including the Directors Guild, SAG-aftra, Teamsters Local 399, Laborers Union Local 724 and a members of the California Iatse Council.
“As a coalition that represents working men and women of the entertainment industry, we are elated that the California film and television production tax credit program has been extended through 2025. Our members are those who lose when film and television production leaves this state and they are also the direct beneficiaries when it returns to and stays in California.
The program was part of a $139 billion state budget that marks Brown’s last as governor.
The extension was greeted with euphoria by a coalition of industry unions including the Directors Guild, SAG-aftra, Teamsters Local 399, Laborers Union Local 724 and a members of the California Iatse Council.
“As a coalition that represents working men and women of the entertainment industry, we are elated that the California film and television production tax credit program has been extended through 2025. Our members are those who lose when film and television production leaves this state and they are also the direct beneficiaries when it returns to and stays in California.
- 6/27/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
An amendment to a bill that would extend California’s $330 million-a-year film incentives program would for the first time require applicants to submit a written policy against sexual harassment. If approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, it would be the first time an anti-sexual harassment policy has been included in any state-sponsored film incentives program.
Ab 1734 (read it here), which recently passed two Assembly committees and now is on its way to the Appropriations Committee, requires applicants to specify in writing a procedure for reporting and investigating harassment claims, a phone number that victims can call to report harassment claims and a statement that the company will not retaliate against anyone for reporting harassment. The bill also requires applicants to “indicate how the policy will be distributed to employees and include a summary of education training resources, including the prohibition against, and prevention and correction of, sexual harassment and remedies available.
Ab 1734 (read it here), which recently passed two Assembly committees and now is on its way to the Appropriations Committee, requires applicants to specify in writing a procedure for reporting and investigating harassment claims, a phone number that victims can call to report harassment claims and a statement that the company will not retaliate against anyone for reporting harassment. The bill also requires applicants to “indicate how the policy will be distributed to employees and include a summary of education training resources, including the prohibition against, and prevention and correction of, sexual harassment and remedies available.
- 5/15/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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