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CURRENT EVENTS
The Placer County-Lake Tahoe Film Office provides this information as a convenience for local residents interested in media work. It can make no guarantees or assurances regarding the events or agencies providing the information.
For more events and announcements, please check local film festival organizations websites.
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Sacramento based pilot episode-Casting Call
May 7th, at the Hyatt Place, 220 Conference Center Drive, Roseville, CA.
Interested actors and actresses are encourage to send a current headshots,
resume and reel (if available) to casting@betterthanunemployed.com.
Any questions please call 916.444.4857.
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Now in its 17th year, the California On-Location Awards™ (COLA) is the premier awards ceremony saluting location professionals, production companies and public employees for professional excellence while working on location in the State of California. COLA is a project of Film Liaisons in California, Statewide (FLICS), a group that seeks to promote and facilitate in-state filming. FLICS welcomes project inquiries and offers a variety of services to help expedite and assist productions.
See this year's winners!
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From the Content Creation & Distribution Expo September 16 & 17, 2011
Placer-Lake Tahoe Film Office Director on Channel 31 with Mark S. Allen
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HOLLYWOOD TAX CREDIT KEEPS JOBS IN STATE
By Beverly Lewis
Published: Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 - 12:00 am | Sacramento Bee Page 3E
Re "You get red ink with that popcorn" (Forum, Dec. 12)
Besides Mr. Morain’s errors about the Film & TV Tax Credit Program he ignores the point that this is a jobs program. Productions hire hundreds of workers and spends millions that support small businesses. In the first two years of the program, participating productions are estimated to bring $2 billion in direct spending to California, including $740 million in wages paid to “below-the-line” crew (electricians, drivers, etc.) – generating much needed California tax revenues.
Why a tax credit at all? In 2000 a 14 month study determined $10 billion exited the Hollywood film industry due to incentives elsewhere-when three states were offering them. Now 42 states have them. There were certainly some states which wrote poor legislation to begin with and are now revamping their programs. California’s new program targets those productions most likely to leave the state.
Ever watch the credits at the end of a film? Those names were mostly Californians; now they’re not because incentives elsewhere require you hire their residents in order to get their tax credits. By 2000 almost every American TV movie was shot in Canada. Since 1997, over 36,000 California film jobs disappeared as well as the significant dollars to our local communities from location production. New Mexico legislators aped Canada’s success and more by integrating their incentives with their university infrastructure. This includes technical post-production and computer jobs which can start at $65,000.
Productions in the California program are selected by lottery not content. While it’s easy to disparage provocative titles like “Walter the Farting Dog” (a noted children's book written by a National Magazine Award winner) - we all have favorite films, cars, or clothes we prefer to buy over others - this does not make a valid argument for ignoring a major industry at risk. Other productions qualifying for tax credits this year include one on Hemingway and for the Hallmark Channel. Because of the lottery, studios don’t influence selection process. As written 10% percent of the funds must go to independent films; this year 39% of the selectees are independents.
As for efforts that resulted in this legislation, after nine years of educating Sacramento legislators to the impact of runaway production, stakeholders like union representatives, employers, and film commissioners representing communities all over the state can say this tax credit program was a long time coming, and it is a modest one at that.
Producers, like General Motors, will still make their product SOMEWHERE but if they shoot here the dollars stay here. It’s that simple.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com
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Placer County Fam Trip – June 2010
Article and photos by Ken Haber
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| Beverly Lewis (center) with the Fam Tour participants: L to R: Tim Wilson, Osceola Refetoff, Mikhael Griffin, Geoff Juckes, Daniel Rosenthal (standing), Ron Perlman(transportation), Kristan Wagner , Ken Haber. |
I was fortunate to be one of the lucky people invited by Beverly Lewis, Director of the Placer-Lake Tahoe Film Office, to participate in the June FAM Tour. The other travellers included LMGA members Kris Wagner, Osceola Refetoff, Geoff Jukes, and Daniel Rosenthal.
The whirlwind tour was a soup to nuts location buffet. Beverly made sure that no scouting experience was overlooked. We traveled in style starting with a flight from Los Angeles to Sacramento, and a mini-bus and driver for our three-day excursion.
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Auburn Cort House |
Gladding McBean |
Foresthill Bridge |
William Jessup University |
The first day included estates, rural roads, the charmingly photogenic and historic town of Roseville, the modern industrial architecture of Frank Gehry at William Jessup University, and one of the highlights of the whole trip, the historic Gladding McBean terra cotta factory. They are famous for having designed and constructed most of the terra cotta building exteriors in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, from the late 19th century, through the 1940’s. This museum-like 22 acre factory complex, complete with their own quarry, also contained a designer’s office that has been left exactly the way it was when the designer died in the 1930’s. After our first action-packed scouting day, it was on to a lovely dinner and our hotel.
Day Two began in Old Town Auburn circa Gold Rush era, one of two historic downtowns in this community, which included the quirky and interesting Chinese Joss House built in a shack previously occupied by a Chinese railroad laborer. From there we continued our journey into the mountains and out to Tunnel Chute and Horseshoe Bar along the Middle Fork of the American River. Here, the popular white-water rafting river passes through a film-friendly private ranch. The easily accessible river roars through Class V rapids and dramatically flows through a tunnel created during the Gold Rush to divert the flow.
Our excursion continued with a wine tasting at a local winery then up through the historic town of Dutch Flat. After a brief stop at a classic 1930s log cabin along the Yuba River, it was on to some panoramic views from Donner Summit. Our day culminated with an amazing private dinner for our group at the Resort at Squaw Creek, where we stayed that evening.
After breakfast on our final day, we were off to White Wolf, a beautiful private alpine wonderland – a four-season location - with its own private ski lift and fleet of Snowcats, that has been the scene of numerous commercial shoots. Then it was down off the mountain and on to an antique speedboat for an amazing yacht tour along the west shore of Lake Tahoe. After lunch at a tony dockside restaurant, it was back on the bus for the final leg of our trip, a Lake Tahoe estate and then to the Cal Neva Resort, owned in its heyday by Frank Sinatra, with a cottage once frequented by JFK and Marilyn Monroe.
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