Comments on: Va. film industry might get new script

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:54:00 +0000

Need to get involved in Film Acting. I need to know how to get started with you guys.
1.Do you have a film shooting project open to any volunteers?
2.Do you welcome Self-Composed Film Documentaries?
Thanks and hope to hear from you about this. Use my e.mail to reply me.
JOSHUA.

By: Phyllis Andrews

Phyllis Andrews — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:10:43 +0000

rt- I’m hear to say you are WRONG! The film industry has brought to Virginia MILLONS OF DOLLARS in revenue from JOBS for local businesses other than hotels/restaurants… They rent property to film on- rental equipment for catering/feeding crews-dressing rooms in remote locations…transportation…power supply…caterers…local film production people from locations/makeup/sound- you name it- they need it…..
as a former locations scout…. I’m very surprised that you do not know this!!!!
VIRGINIA NEEDS FILM PRODUCTIONS – more so now the way the economy is…
Contact your local representative/legislator to ask for support of these bills being proposed!
Visit the Virginia Film Office website and you will see for yourself and verify this info!

By: rt

rt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:45:14 +0000

Using state funds to attract film production is a fool’s game. As a former LA-based location scout I can tell you that very little of that money is put back into the community beyond a few hotels and restaurants. Let the film crews go, and send the money-losing film office with them. Spend the money attracting businesses that will stay for more than a few weeks.

By: tvnewsbadge

tvnewsbadge — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:45:14 +0000

A day late and many dollars short, if you ask me. “Secretariat” was the big one, and it’s just criminal that we lost out on that one.
Especially since we have Colonial Downs sitting vacant for 9 months out of the year and would have been a wonderful place for the on track sequences and Secretariat’s foaling shed and still intact at the Meadow Event park.

But it wasn’t a total loss, I guess… Disney DID send a sound crew out to the track during this summers meet to capture the sounds of live racing for the film…

By: ng.morris

ng.morris — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:49:23 +0000

Its about time!!! From what I’ve seen few incentive programs offer such an immediate return as the film incentives will. While working/filming in a locality, millons of dollars are spent for accomodations, food, materials, transportation, and workers. Traveling around the Commonweath, I have seen many cases of well-intentioned economic development incentives fail to do anything but cost taxpayers, with no return. In one western county, a failed incentive program ended up bankrupting the county’s economic development authority. I can only hope that this will be enough to save the film industry in Virginia. In addition to the Commonwealth’s natural resources, there has been an able base of people, experienced in film production, who have had to work in other states over the past few years. I know that a number still consider Virginia home, but many more years of this “drought” and they would be gone. Having such people available is an important resouce to the film makers, since importing these people adds significantly to the cost of film making.