Please join us for a legislative briefing
The Future of Film & Television in Massachusetts
Local and national film & television producers, industry workers and businesses discuss the importance of keeping the state’s Film & Television Tax Incentive.
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Tuesday, March 2nd
10:30 AM
Join via Zoom Meeting
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Speakers
Jay Roewe
Sr. VP, Production & Incentives, HBO/Warner Media
Mary Ann Hughes
VP, Production & Investment Planning, The Walt Disney Company
Vans Stevenson
Sr. VP, State Government Affairs, Motion Picture Association of America
Andrea Ajemian
Producer (I Care A Lot, Honest Thief, Shrine)
John Stimpson
Director / Writer / Producer, H9 Films
Gary Crossen
General Manager, New England Studios
Rebecca Green
Set Decorator
Andrea Lyman
Actor / President, SAG-AFTRA New England Local
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The Film & Television Production Incentive program has made Massachusetts a leading filmmaking destination that supports thousands of local families with good-paying jobs and has created a local industry that helps countless small businesses across the state.
Massachusetts is now poised and ready to capture the fast growing streaming content industry that will bring even more business, good-paying jobs, and infrastructure to the state for years to come.
Film studios and streaming companies are making decisions right now about where to film in the coming years, and there is uncertainty about the future of MA’s production incentive. Without the elimination of the expiration now, continued investment in Massachusetts will cease, films and TV series will go elsewhere, and thousands of current and future local jobs will follow
