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Sign Up: Speaker Series -- Hollywood and the Detroit Film Boom
By: Model D Staff
August 19, 2008

What does Hollywood have to offer the Motor City? And how does this
newfound interest in filming in Michigan support our local film industry?

Model D's Speaker Series will take a look at the burgeoning film
industry in Detroit at 5 p.m. Aug. 21 at the College for Creative Studies.

Sign up for the free event at
http://www.modeldmedia.com/speakerseries/filmspeaker15408.aspx
Seating is limited, so you must sign up to attend.

Speakers will be:

- Erik Tungate, business development manager for the Detroit Economic
Growth Corp. Erik works to leverage existing incentives and the city's
assets to attract the film industry to Detroit;
- Tony Wenson of the
Michigan Film Office, which is working to lure movie makers to the
Mitten state.

Networking and registration start at 5 p.m., and the hour-long program
starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by more networking time.

The event will be in the Wendell W. Anderson, Jr. Auditorium in the
Walter B. Ford II Building at the College for Creative Studies in
Midtown. For more information, go to
http://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/
For a map or directions, CCS' address is 201 East Kirby, Detroit, MI
48202-4034.

Free parking is available in the CCS parking structure, which is
accessible from Brush Street.