Film Tax Incentives Return

From left, SAG-AFTRA L.A. Local Executive Director Ilyanne Morden Kichaven; former SAG-AFTRA National and L.A. Local Board member and Secrets and Lies co-executive producer and director Adam Arkin; former SAG-AFTRA National and L.A. Local Board member and Secrets and Lies production staff member and actor Michelle Dunker; and SAG-AFTRA Deputy General Counsel William Bensussen.

Entertainment industry leaders and professionals gathered at Paramount Studios on Aug. 13 to celebrate the move of ABC’s Secrets and Lies to Hollywood from North Carolina. Labor and industry leaders, legislators and others held a press conference to mark the implementation of the $330 million Film and Television Tax Credit Program, and thanked proponents of the legislation. Secret and Lies moved to California in its second season; it employs 300 cast and crew members.

It is one of 11 television productions to receive the first allocation from the Film and Television Tax Credit Program and one of four to relocate from other states. These 11 productions are expected to create thousands of jobs while generating an estimated $216 million in wages for below-the-line cast and crew and $544 million in direct in-state spending.

This item was originally featured in the September 2015 local newsletter.