We are at a crucial moment. With states like New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, Michigan, and Connecticut all passing tax credits similar to ours, the time has come for us to begin brainstorming new ideas and new innovations in order for us to grow a sustainable local film industry and film infrastructure to remain a leader in the industry in the United States.

Last night at the Baton Rouge Film Meetup, we all agreed that we need to come together as a group to work with our legislators and set the following goals for the next legislative session to make the following things happen:

- End the sunsets on the film tax credits that will cause them to expire

- Lower the 300,000 dollar amount that makes films eligible for 25% tax credit to $50,000 (and potentially lower the tax credit to 15% if 25% would not be fiscally responsible) to help independent filmmakers and producers have more power to make films and to use local talent and empower local actors so that our local talent can receive more on set experience in front of the camera being featured and not as background

- Create a new government entity, a film council, with qualified professionals from around the country as well as actors, writers, directors, that would work as an arm with our tourism commissions, respectively, to be a fiscal partner in financing films (10%-15%) which would even further create more local production, producers, editors, and directors with chances to get into the Guilds while simultaneously creating P.R. for Louisiana and further solidify a tourism boom.

It is time for us to stop any bickering amongst one another and to come together as a group for a greater common goal. Together, nothing can stop Louisiana. We are progress.

Join me in this endeavor. Let's propose the legislations to make it happen and invest in a sustainable Louisiana film industry.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!! TAKE THE INITIATIVE!!!! EMPOWER ACTORS, WRITERS, DIRECTORS, and YOURSELF.
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Sincerely,

Christopher C. Brown
NOLA Filmmaker
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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Shakespeare

"A film is never any good unless the camera is the eye of a poet."
-Orson Welles.

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