Video and Film Production in Springfield, Branson and Southwest Missouri

Springfield Business Journal recently delved into the recent feature film production in Taney County. “Winter’s Bone”, based on a 2006 novel of the same name by West Plains author Daniel Woodrell, was filmed earlier this year by a New York production company who own the film rights.

Missouri issues transferable tax credits to filmmakers for 35 percent of qualified expenditures during the shooting of a film, TV show or commercial. While the percentage is viewed as relatively competitive, the 10-year-old program’s $4.5 million annual cap isn’t.

In 2008, Missouri raised the program’s annual cap to $4.5 million from $1.5 million and lowered the minimum in-state expenditure on films at least 30 minutes long to $100,000 from $300,000, said Mark Biggs, a Missouri State University professor who chairs the Missouri Film Commission.

The commission, a division of the state Department of Economic Development created in 1983 to promote the growth of the film and video-production industry in Missouri, oversees the tax credit process and reviews expenditures submitted by filmmakers.

The story was also featured in their weekly news report on KSPR33. The photo was provided by Harry Styron, from his blog post Film production injects dollars into Ozarks.