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Patricia Swinney Kaufman (born 1948) is the executive director of the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development and the deputy commissioner of Empire State Development. Kaufman is the former president of the Association of Film Commissioners International, where she still serves on the board of directors.
When Governor Phil Murphy took office, he instated the New Jersey Film & Digital Media Tax Credit Program in 2018 and expanded it in 2020 and 2023. The initial benefits in 2018, prior to expansion, included a 30% tax credit on film projects and a 40% subsidy for studio developments.
The Governors Awards presentation is an annual award ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center, in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. [1]
Despite the pandemic and two industry strikes (Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA unions) in 2022 and 2023, film production in Westchester yielded $2 billion in economic activity, 6,796 jobs ...
A 2018 study from the Beacon Center of Tennessee found “using available box office data, over 40 percent of films that receive grants made less at the box office than they received in incentives.”
The 2023 Motion Picture Association Awards will honor director Gina Prince-Bythewood, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Mexico City Gov. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo for their distinct impact ...
In 1974, Mayor Abraham Beame met with the newly formed New York Motion Picture and Television Council and its Chairman, Jerry Puchkoff. At that meeting Mayor Beame agreed to expand the city's support for the industry by forming the Mayor's Advisory Council on Motion Pictures and Television in which Jerry Puchkoff was also elected Co-Chairman.
Rebane is credited with the introduction of the first 360 degree (wrap around) motion picture process to the Motion Picture Industry of the world, an innovation that spurred the Cinemax process and today's Rotascope cameras; as the creator of the Wisconsin Film Office; as the producer, director, writer, and cinematographer on 12 independent ...