Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted in favor of a proposal containing several suggestions To facilitate the approval process for local film and television production. This includes calls for county agencies to find ways to streamline permissible processes and develop a fund for film technology startups.
Many of the measures included in a proposal submitted by the supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath, echo those made at the city level by the Los Angeles City Council, which approved a similar proposal submitted by the Council Member of the Council Adrin Nazarian in April. Mayor Karen Bass has also gathered a working group to investigate ways to make Los Angeles a cheaper and more convenient place to film compared to other cities such as New York, Chicago and Atlanta.
Among the other proposals in the proposal is a review of Filmt that allows processes, an attempt to shorten the time it takes to approve LA Sheriff’s deputies for productions and a call to clarify when film productions must include fire safety advisors.
In addition, the movement for the county’s center for strategic partnerships and the department of art and culture requires to seek possible public and private partners to create a “winter green fund” worth between $ 80 and $ 100 million, which would support “new industrial engineering startups.”
The Board also called on the Art and Cultural Department’s real estate branch to consult film schools and industry leaders to develop a “new technology-based production facility” for both commercial production and industry training for new workers.
The vote is part of a larger local and state effort to increase the film and television production in the home grass of the entertainment industry. The crucial local economic and cultural pillar has been undermined in recent years when productions move to other cities and countries with tax incentives or simply lower costs (such as living costs).
As part of this approved and in June California’s legislators and extension of eligibility rules and benefits for California Film and TV tax credit programwhich was quickly signed in law by GOV. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. The new program also increases the base rate for the tax credit from 20% to 35% by an increased per product lid of $ 120 million. Credits awarded for independent productions have also almost tripled from $ 26 million to $ 75 million.
