Beyond her primary role as the State of Maryland’s Assistant Secretary for Tourism, Film & The Arts, Hannah Byron has been an eyewitness to the state’s greatest decades of film production.
Starting with John Waters, “The Wire”, and now coordinating such shows as HBO’s “Veep” and Netflix’s soon to be out “House of Cards,” Byron knows first hand what Hollywood can do for the state’s economy.
With the legislature now in session, Byron is the lead advocate of a bill to create $25 million in tax credits for the film industry in fiscal 2014. In a recent Spy interview, she made the case for passage as well as the role incentives play to attract big time shows as well as small producers to the Eastern Shore as well as Baltimore.
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Robert Sweetman says
A Few Observations/ Points-
(1) – If we have some of the Best Casts and Crews in the Country, how come we are providing incentives for temporary short term projects/films?
(2) – Why is there such an intensive effort underway to provide huge incentives for this particular industry, which involves short term,
temporary employment for a small amount of people with no guarantee of ever developing a permanent presence?
(3) – Why is there an effort to provide credits for this particular industry, and nothing in the same degree for other industry’s ?
(4) – Will these Tax credits also be extended to all those Locals who are working on these short term projects such as the support crews, Vendors,
Carpenters, Limo Operators, Hotels, etc etc.. ?