Video / Film Production in Springfield-Branson-Ozarks
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Is there a job you’d love to do but the business can’t afford to hire you? Are you between the ages of 16-24? Well, Missouri has a program that may meet both needs. Click on the image to be taken to the Next Generation Jobs Team website, where you can apply to have all wages [...]
On Tuesday March 31st, the Missouri Motion Media Association (MOMMA) held a Legislative Day in Jefferson City. Close to 50 members of the industry converged on the Capitol that day to visit with legislators and share with them our thoughts on the ‘shovel ready’ nature of the Film and Video production business in Missouri. The [...]
“What! We’re giving Oprah a tax credit?” exclaimed members of the Illinois House in reaction to an amendment to renew the Illinois filmmakers tax credit AND to include talk shows was introduced in the Senate. Now exactly one year later, that statement has come back to bite them in the buttsky, as NBC Universal whisks [...]
The 2nd Annual OzArts Conference at Drury University will focus on helping you to “Turn Your Passions Into A Living”. For the second year in a row Drury will be hosting the Self Employment in the Arts (SEA) OzArts conference, one of only six held across the country. The Conference is an educational resource for [...]
That’s what we found out from the New York Times this week: A study of New York’s tax breaks for movie and television production suggested that a 30 percent credit offered by the state, with an additional 5 percent offered by New York City, could be expected to keep or create about 19,500 jobs while [...]
Business Week recently looked at a Japanese governmental body that chose to use Anime to break through the crowd and ensure their research was considered: What’s the point of toiling on a report nobody will read? A few months ago, Japan’s Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries Ministry tried something different. It hired Tokyo design studio Groovisions—a [...]
Business Week weighed in recently: Hollywood’s Monster-Sized Carbon Footprint Big-budget flicks with locations around the globe make going green all the harder. Warner Bros.’ (TWX) The Dark Knight required jetting to shoots in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong. With 88 actors and about 900 crew members in Chicago in the spring of summer of 2007, [...]
From Indiewire – Geoff Gilmore: Evolution v. Revolution, The State of Independent Film & Festivals Everyone speaks today of this being a moment for change. And yet the truth is for independent film, change has been constant. As the Director of the Sundance Film Festival over (nearly) the last two decades, I’ve witnessed an ongoing [...]
In what will hopefully be good news for the Missouri Film Industry, Incoming Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon named Bryan Cave lawyer and tax credit guru Linda Martinez his economic development director on January 6th. She’s the first woman ever named to the position, but more important is her expertise: Martinez’s practice focuses on tax credits, [...]
Missouri Film Industry Members: As many of you know, our operations at the Missouri Film Office have been scaled back significantly over the past few years. With greatly reduced manpower and funding, our focus has been, at minimum, to continue providing the basic services that will attract and support motion picture and video production in [...]
From the Wall Street Journal: High-Risk Glamour: A Piece of an Indie Flick IndieVest Members Pay Fee, Get Right to Buy Into a Film IndieVest Inc. is bringing the concept of fractional ownership to people who want to invest in movies, hoping that its financial model will prove profitable in a trying era for independent [...]
I picked this one up from the Dallas Producers Association mailing list, some good advice it would appear on managing your taxes. ================= Whether you are shooting commercials, industrial videos, television series or feature films, now would be a good time to sit down with your tax professional and review how changes in federal tax [...]
The Wall Street Journal looks at the impact the amount of cash Hollywood has made in recent years has had on film distribution Last year, more than 600 feature films — mostly independent movies not produced at a major studio — were released theatrically in the U.S., up from 466 in 2002, according to the [...]
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