From Your New Utah Board Member

Recently, the Local Board appointed me as a board member for the Arizona-Utah Local. I am absolutely thrilled. Thank you to all those who helped me get here. Now it is time for me to prove my worth. 

Just in the last few weeks, I met with Virginia Pearce, the director of the Utah Film Commission, to make a re-introduction with SAG-AFTRA, introduce myself as the local Utah board member and swap some swag.   

In our conversation, I found out that there are several projects being filmed in Utah in the next few months in the $1-million-to-$3-million category. I was also informed that there will eventually be a limited number of ultra-low budget (ULB) incentive packages coming out from the Utah Film Commission for projects under the $2-million mark sometime in the fall. The ULB incentive package sounds like a wonderful promotion, which could help some ULB feature films. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. 

My next bit of networking will be with the Motion Picture Association of Utah. Stay tuned for my next update.  

Humbly yours, 

Billy Holden
SAG-AFTRA Arizona-Utah Local Board member 

This item was originally featured in the July 2016 local newsletter.