Dear Colleagues in the Film Industry: The AFMC continues its efforts to create a more conducive business climate for the film, video, and media industries. With the Covid-19 situation effecting all aspects of human activities, including commercial and political activities, we have necessarily had to curtail our efforts in certain areas. Covid-19 has shortened the […]
(Photo credit: Karen Politano) This past Wednesday (02/12/2020), the Arizona House Ways and Means Committee convened to hear HB2385 (TPT; reimbursement; motion picture production), which is a proposed bill to reimburse sales tax on movie productions as an incentive to attract more production work into Arizona. As a member of the AZ Film & Media […]
After years of research, town hall meetings and consultations with political leaders, the AFMC developed a multi-year grass-root legislative strategy designed to revive the Arizona Film and Media Industry. The objective is to bring permanent Film and Media industry jobs to our state, make Arizona a place for a young creative-class to prosper, and to build a local […]