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Shoot In Minnesota
is a non-profit trade association representing Minnesota's crew, talent,
and producers working in conjunction with the Minnesota Film & TV
Board.
Shoot In Minnesota and The Minnesota Film &
TV Board support:
A 20% rebate for Minnesota based production costs. Those production costs
include; local talent and workers as well as equiptment rentals and purchases,
screenplays, photography, lodging, set construction and other related
services.
Shoot In Minnesota will continue in its role as the trade
association representing the Minnesota moving image industry, resuming
its lobbying efforts now that the 2008 Minnesota State Legislative session
is underway.
Our success during the 2006 session should be seen
as a strategic step towards passage of a significant two-year funding
increase for the Snowbate program during the 2007 legislative session.
What we did last year is all about this year.
Shoot In Minnesota asks that you
to join with us in the ongoing effort to maintain and expand film and
television production incentives for our industry. At this time last year,
46 states in this country had some form of incentives for film and television
production. Although Minnesota did have an incentive in the form of a
sales tax exemption to TV commercials only, it lagged far behind as compared
to other states. In May of 2006, the state legislature funded a one-time,
one-year financial incentive program called Snowbate
for broadcast commercials, feature films, music video and documentaries
produced in Minnesota. We need your help to move this from
a one-time funding to a permanent, ongoing program!
Clearly production incentives have become a major
part of the business landscape for visual media production worldwide.
The Minnesota film and television community now has the opportunity to
compete on a more level playing field with other states and countries.
We simply need to make the incentive program permanent!
Incentive legislation would not have been enacted
without the coordinated effort of the Minnesota Film and Television Board
and professional political lobbyists engaged by Shoot In Minnesota.
The actions that we took are beginning to produce results. Major advertisers
and commercial production companies have brought many projects to Minnesota
because of the incentive. Several television series and two feature films
have applied as well and the outlook is very positive.
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