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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971 [1]) is an American politician who served as the 55th governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Republican Party, Jindal previously served as a U.S. representative from Louisiana from 2005 to 2008, and served as chair of the Republican Governors Association from 2012 to 2013.
Paul W. Rainwater is an American former local and state government official from Louisiana who served as an aide to Governor Bobby Jindal and played a prominent role in Louisiana during its recovery from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike and the recovery of the state from the 2010 British Petroleum Oil Spill.
LIFT Productions (an acronym for Louisiana Institute of Film Technology) was the first concerted private sector effort to combat "runaway production" of film and television from the United States. In the 1990s the U.S. market lost over 100,000 production-related jobs, [ 1 ] as motion picture and television programming increasingly became ...
The head of Louisiana’s film office recently testified before a House committee about what the impacts of removing the credits would mean statewide. “We bring in $1 billion annually in sales ...
District A Shreveport City Councilwoman Tabatha Taylor says the tax credit is the key component to the city's growing film industry.
As Prize Fest gets closer, we look at the top 20 films that will compete for the $50,000 prize during the 13th annual Louisiana Film Prize competition.
The film industry in Louisiana has grown dramatically in recent years [1] [2] largely due to the state's 2002 tax incentives aimed at attracting film and television companies. [2] The success of Louisiana 's film industry caused the state to be nicknamed " Hollywood South " or " Hollywood on the Bayou ".
In the runoff, Jindal received endorsements from the New Orleans Times-Picayune (the largest paper in Louisiana), New Orleans Mayor Nagin (who had supported Ewing in the primary but declined to endorse Blanco in the runoff), and outgoing Republican governor Mike Foster. Some political analysts believe that his narrow loss was partly due to racism.