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California legislators are preparing to debate a billdesigned to stem the tide of runaway productions and help restore the notional Hollywood to its rightful home.The move follows years of vocal agitation by Californian industryworkers troubled by the exodus of productions to more cost-effective shootinglocations such as those in Canada, Eastern Europe and North Africa, and comeshot on the heels of a raft stanley cup of tax incentive schemes launched by other USstates.According to a report in the New York Times the bill, set to be heard by the StateSenate Appropriations Committee next Monday [Aug 22], would provide a 12% taxcredit on any project s California production spend, up to a cap of $3m.If the bill g stanley cup oes through in its current formulation, an annual$50m would be set aside for the incentive - that s twice the amount availablefor New York shoots and only just shy of the $65m in credits currently offeredby the state of Louisiana each year to boost its thriving filmmaking economy. For a detailed breakdown of how the New York production incentivescheme works read this week s edition of Screen International .To qualify for the proposed California breaks, 75% of the shoot wouldneed to take place within the State.Productions would be dealt with on a first-come, first-serve basisand would need to commence shooting within five months of approval to avoidcredit forfeiture.To avoid subsidising studios and talent salaries, overhead anddistribution costs would be excluded and the bill stanley cup would on Cpso The Secret Life Of Bees
Japanese companies attend Filmart with a strong line-up of titles. Jason Gray highlights some of the most eye-catching productions.A Record Of Sweet MurderDir Koji ShiraishiNikkatsu has been on a crime-driven roll with Devils Path and Japan-Indonesia co-production Killers. Now comes Japan-Korea collaboration A Record Of Sweet Murder aka One Cut , directed by low-budget fear and gore maestro Koji Shiraishi Grotesque . A socially conscious journalist Kim Kkobbi is contacted by an escaped serial killer Yeon Je-wook , who happens to be her childhood friend. The killer requests an interview to be filmed in one shot while he tells the stories behind his numerous murders, including the ones still to be committed. Also stars Tsukasa Aoi and Ryotaro Yonemura. The film is a market premiere.Contact Nikkatsu kawai@nikkatsu.co.jpBe My BabyDir Hitoshi OneBe My Baby unfolds in the two weeks following a house party attended by nine twenty-somethings, in this honest take on relationships in modern Japan. Hitoshi One directed popular romantic comedy Love St stanley cup rikes!. This time he collaborates with veteran indie producer-director Masashi Yamamoto Three-Points of Cinema Impact. It stars Kenta Niikura, stanley uk Naoko Wakai and Chihiro Shibata, and screens as an in stanley cup ternational premiere in the festival and market.Contact CinemaImpactinfo@cinemaimpact.netCampaign 2Dir Kazuhiro SodaIn Campaign 2, documentary film-maker Kazuhiro Soda returns to hangdog political candidate Kazuhiko Yamauchi, subject of the o
California legislators are preparing to debate a billdesigned to stem the tide of runaway productions and help restore the notional Hollywood to its rightful home.The move follows years of vocal agitation by Californian industryworkers troubled by the exodus of productions to more cost-effective shootinglocations such as those in Canada, Eastern Europe and North Africa, and comeshot on the heels of a raft stanley cup of tax incentive schemes launched by other USstates.According to a report in the New York Times the bill, set to be heard by the StateSenate Appropriations Committee next Monday [Aug 22], would provide a 12% taxcredit on any project s California production spend, up to a cap of $3m.If the bill g stanley cup oes through in its current formulation, an annual$50m would be set aside for the incentive - that s twice the amount availablefor New York shoots and only just shy of the $65m in credits currently offeredby the state of Louisiana each year to boost its thriving filmmaking economy. For a detailed breakdown of how the New York production incentivescheme works read this week s edition of Screen International .To qualify for the proposed California breaks, 75% of the shoot wouldneed to take place within the State.Productions would be dealt with on a first-come, first-serve basisand would need to commence shooting within five months of approval to avoidcredit forfeiture.To avoid subsidising studios and talent salaries, overhead anddistribution costs would be excluded and the bill stanley cup would on Cpso The Secret Life Of Bees
Japanese companies attend Filmart with a strong line-up of titles. Jason Gray highlights some of the most eye-catching productions.A Record Of Sweet MurderDir Koji ShiraishiNikkatsu has been on a crime-driven roll with Devils Path and Japan-Indonesia co-production Killers. Now comes Japan-Korea collaboration A Record Of Sweet Murder aka One Cut , directed by low-budget fear and gore maestro Koji Shiraishi Grotesque . A socially conscious journalist Kim Kkobbi is contacted by an escaped serial killer Yeon Je-wook , who happens to be her childhood friend. The killer requests an interview to be filmed in one shot while he tells the stories behind his numerous murders, including the ones still to be committed. Also stars Tsukasa Aoi and Ryotaro Yonemura. The film is a market premiere.Contact Nikkatsu kawai@nikkatsu.co.jpBe My BabyDir Hitoshi OneBe My Baby unfolds in the two weeks following a house party attended by nine twenty-somethings, in this honest take on relationships in modern Japan. Hitoshi One directed popular romantic comedy Love St stanley cup rikes!. This time he collaborates with veteran indie producer-director Masashi Yamamoto Three-Points of Cinema Impact. It stars Kenta Niikura, stanley uk Naoko Wakai and Chihiro Shibata, and screens as an in stanley cup ternational premiere in the festival and market.Contact CinemaImpactinfo@cinemaimpact.netCampaign 2Dir Kazuhiro SodaIn Campaign 2, documentary film-maker Kazuhiro Soda returns to hangdog political candidate Kazuhiko Yamauchi, subject of the o