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SAG-AFTRA’s ‘Here’s Looking At You L.A.’ & Mayor Karen Bass Push For State & Federal Tax Incentives To Get Hollywood Working Again
In an intersection of media, labor and real politick, SAG-AFTRA wants to pull the home of Hollywood together to get Tinseltown working again
As uncertainty rolls an industry already rocked by change and contraction, the words of the SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer and National Government Affairs and Public Policy Committee co-chair had an added resonance on May 8 with below-the-line workers and almost everyone else hurting hard as production and jobs are scarce. In the hopes of turning things around, California Governor Gavin Newsom ’s aim of pumping up the Golden State’s film and TV tax incentives to$750 million annually is moving steadily through the Legislature in Sacramento with deep support. “You have taken a major blow over these last few years, from COVID to strike and now this but we’re going to turn it around,” Bass concluded, pledging to make it easier to film in the City of Angels with lower permit fees and a more streamlined process for productions.
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