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NEW YORK STATE IS
YOUR FINANCIAL PARTNER
With Four Ways To Save
♥ New York State Film Production Credit
30% - 35% fully-refundable tax credit on
qualified expenses while filming in New York State
♥ Commercial Production Tax Credits
Refundable tax credits available for qualified commercials
with added incentives for companies increasing volume of work in New York
♥ Sales Tax Exemptions
Film production activities/expenses that are exempt
from New York State and local sales and use taxes
♥ Investment Tax Credit
Up to 5% tax credit on investments
in construction and upgrades to qualified film production facilities
PLUS Employment Incentive Tax Credits for 2 additional years
♥ Qualified Production Facilities
If you have a question about a facility that is not on this list, contact the state and/or city film offices.
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Made
In New York - Tax Incentives Boost Industry Growth - Feb 2006 P3 Update
Magazine
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"New York does not have production
tax credits at the city or state level. To keep a competitive edge, Katherine
Oliver, commissioner of the New York Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre &
Broadcasting, focuses on customer service, offering productions free permits,
parking and police assistance, and helping them get permission to film
at the one-of-a-kind locations that drew them to New York in the first
place. For Fox's "Stay," starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, that meant
the Brooklyn Bridge. For Universal's "The Interpreter," starring Nicole
Kidman and Sean Penn, it was the United Nations, which had never allowed
a production to shoot on its premises.
Oliver has a structure for almost any occasion.
"We've just got word from Governors
Island (in New York Harbor) that they have a couple of buildings that they
want to demolish," she says. "If a production is interested in working
that into their script, we would like to talk to them and see if we can
make this happen." - Hollywood Reporter 04/16/04
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From Backstage.com Jan '05:
NYC
Filming Should Rise Starting in 2005
By Roger Armbrust
If ever a city were primed to increase
its film and television production and fight runaways to Canada and other
countries, New York should be the place.
After years of seeing films shot
in Toronto and other environs outside the United States, the Big Apple
should now be set to "bring it on" with regard to producing for the big
and small screen.
Why? Because producers shooting
in New York City now can benefit from tax breaks on the federal, state,
and local levels -- triple incentives to keep production at home, and bring
it back from other areas...............READ
MORE
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New York City recently established a new pilot workforce training program, the Independent Film Training Grant Initiative, to support local independent film production. The program offers grants to NYC-based production companies of up to $25,000 per film project for hiring eligible freelance workers to assume greater on-set responsibilities. The end goal is to build a cadre of well-trained, skilled NYC-based crew members that can work on future productions in NYC.
Each production company can only
claim a grant for one film project with a budget of under $3 million. A
total of $150,000 in federal workforce training funds have been allocated
toward this program, which will be administered by IFP, along with its
affiliated Producers Group and the NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre,
and Broadcasting.
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NYC
Incentive Program:
New York State Film Commission
Buffalo
Niagara Film Commission
Buffalo, New York USA
mstricklin@buffaloniagara.org
Capital-Saratoga
Film Commission
Saratoga Springs, New York USA
info@saratoga.org
Nassau
County Film Office
East Meadow, New York USA
debfilm@aol.com
New
York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture & TV Development
New York, New York USA
nyfilm@empire.state.ny.us
NYC
Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting
New York, New York USA
info@film.nyc.gov
Rochester/Finger
Lakes Film & Video Office, Inc.
Rochester, New York USA
jfoster@visitrochester.com
Yonkers
Mayor's Office for Film and Television Development
Yonkers, New York USA
danielle.spring@cityofyonkers.com
Hamptons International Film Festival
Rochester International Film
Festival
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MovieMaker
2004 "Top 10 Cities for Moviemakers"
- Our fourth annual ranking of the best places in the US to
live and make movies (Movie
Maker Mag Website)
by James L. Menzies
Jump To:
1.
Austin, Texas Last year: #4
2.
New York, NY Last year: #2
3.
Boston, MA Last year: Unranked
4.
Philadelphia, PA Last year: #5
5.
Orlando, FL Last year: Unranked
6.
Las Vegas, NV Last year: #8
7.
Los Angeles, CA Last year: #7
8.
Portland, Oregon Last year: #9
9.
Chicago, IL Last year: #6
10.
Houston, TX Last year: Unranked
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FILMING
IN THE TRI-STATE REGION - Of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
From Production Update Magazine June 2004 - By Virginia
Comer
To speak of filming in New York
conjures up familiar scenes of Manhattan, but it's more than New York,
the city; it's also New York, a sizable state with production activity
in Buffalo-Niagara, Nassau County, Yonkers, and Westchester. Mark
Stricklin is the Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner, whose office serves
as a point of contact for filming in the eight-county region of western
New York. Stricklin speaks of the region as "a different kind of better
for filming where film professionals will find that here is not only an
environment of great diversity and beauty, but also regulatory freedom
and unsurpassed cooperation.". ........................READ
MORE
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July
24, 2005
New
York Incognito
By
RICHARD MORGAN
STATEN ISLAND is perfect.
It has a long, nondescript highway. It has strip malls. It has trailer parks. It has grass-covered landfills smeared with the kind of lush growth usually seen only in finger paintings.
Jesse Peretz's shiny black S.U.V. pulls up to the nearest Manhattan-type outpost: a Starbucks on Richmond Avenue. Coffee container in hand, he stands in the parking lot and surveys the highway. "What do we think of this place?" he asks his entourage.
"This street has a great mall vibe," replies Dan Shaw, holding his coffee and surveying the scene. "There's a Costco, a Bed Bath & Beyond."
If the talk about vibe sounds awfully California for New Yorkers, that's
because it is. Mr. Peretz is a movie director, and Mr. Shaw is his chief
assistant. Along with other filmmakers, they have been lured to New York
by new film-friendly city policies, particularly lucrative tax incentives
available to films and most television shows. But there's a twist. To gain
the greatest benefits, filmmakers must shoot a certain portion of the movie
in the city, even if big chunks of the script call for scenes set in places
far away, and far different, from New York......................READ
MORE
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