While the work of entertainment in California is accelerating, the Los Angeles license process was criticized by local defenders as too expensive and expensive, adding the cocktail of reasons why the productions could leave the state for their shoots.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles municipal council unanimously adopted a measure which aims to change this. The motion, introduced by the member of the Adrin Nazarian council, calls on various services of the city to seek new costs of costs, potential discounts or derogations from public property costs, various ways to use public security agents, film license and rationalized stage certification procedures and scene certification procedures and solutions at presumed prices for the parking lot of the team and the basic places.
He provides that chief legislative analysts of the city and departments such as the filmla film, Filmla, realize in 30 days with their conclusions. “We have to do our part at the local level to maintain production in Los Angeles,” wrote Nazarian in his motion.
The members of the Hugo Soto-Martinez, Nithya Raman, Traci Park, Monica Rodriguez and Imelda Padilla councils spoke in support of the measure of the Municipal Council on Tuesday. Park, who said that one in five people in his district is working in the entertainment industry, has described the movement as “incredibly urgent”. She added: “I could not be more concerned with the mass jobs we lose from the city of Los Angeles.”
While the request adopted the Council on Tuesday, the applause broke out at the town hall of the participants who came to support the bill.
A certain number of industry workers have spoken of the challenges that the productions faced in the city during the public comments period at the meeting on Tuesday. “We have to redeem what we are doing. I think it’s a big step forward,” said Greg Zekowski, member of Directors Guild of America. Addition of the president of the local section 728 of the IATSE, Martin Weeks, “all the opposite winds for production mean that production leaves Los Angeles and that makes our members lose their jobs and has a lack of work, so I urge the council to vote in support.”
During a brief speech before Tuesday’s vote, Nazarian said that in the mid -1980s, Los Angeles had regularly organized filming for major lines; In 2013, no tent tent film shot in California. “We regressed and lost so much ground,” he said. “Now we lose advertisements and platforms and mini-series. We cannot have that.”
Political decision-makers ran to discuss the drop in production work following a series of major disturbances: the COVVI-19 pandemic, the Dual 2023 hits entertainment and the broader contraction of the industry.
At the state level, Governor Gavin Newsom attempted to tackle the California’s fleeing production issue with a proposal to increase the ceiling of the state and television tax credit program to $ 750 million, compared to $ 330 million. Various state senators and representatives of the State Assembly, on the other hand, have supported two bills which aim to extend the types of eligible projects and increase state subsidy for 35%productions.
In 2024, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, created an advisory group of industry leaders and published an executive directive which called on city services to meet quarterly stakeholders with industry stakeholders and revise and make recommendations to reform their license processes.
Nazarian’s assertion is that the city must make more of its end to help its industry staff and preserve an emblematic company in Los Angeles. “Sacramento must do what he has to do, but we can do what we can do here to make sure that we protect the industry that has put Los Angeles on the map,” he said at the meeting on Tuesday.
