Indie Filmmakers: Start Your Engines

In case you haven’t heard yet, on July 28, 2010, the State of Louisiana passed a new law targeting indie and low-budget filmmakers.  Act No. 633 , the Louisiana Filmmakers Grant Fund, will be administered by the State’s office of entertainment industry development, the same agency that administers the motion picture tax credit program.

What could the new bill mean for you?

In short, the new fund will help support low-budget film projects by offering grants that will match up to 50% of the total cost of a film, or $100,000, whichever is less, for films that do not meet the $300,000 minimum spending requirements to participate in the State’s motion picture tax credit program.

Want more info?  Read Micah Haley’s full account at Scene online.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 4:17 pm. It is filed under NOVAC Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

2 Responses to “Indie Filmmakers: Start Your Engines”

  1. Drew Chastain says:
    August 6, 2010 at 10:42 am

    How do we track when/whether this goes into effect?

  2. NOVAC says:
    August 11, 2010 at 11:19 am

    Hi Drew,

    We will have news about it on this blog when the program officially begins, with whatever info is needed to apply. If you’d rather get the news directly from Louisiana Economic Development, you can subscribe to their RSS newsfeed.

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