{"id":141922,"date":"2025-05-13T02:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/sag-aftras-heres-looking-at-you-la-push-for-state-federal-tax-credits\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T02:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:19:26","slug":"sag-aftras-heres-looking-at-you-la-push-for-state-federal-tax-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/sag-aftras-heres-looking-at-you-la-push-for-state-federal-tax-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"SAG-AFTRA’s Here’s Looking At You LA Push For State & Federal Tax Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn a soiree intersection of media, labor<\/a> and actual politick, SAG-AFTRA<\/a> needs to drag the house of Hollywood collectively to get Tinseltown working once more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRevitalizing California\u2019s most recognizable industry isn\u2019t just about making things better for show business, it\u2019s about making things better for everyone,\u201d proclaimed Joely Fisher<\/a> final week at a literal and figurative excessive degree get-together within the penthouse of SAG-AFTRA\u2019s LA HQ. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs uncertainty rolls an trade already rocked by change and contraction, the phrases of the SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer and National Government Affairs and Public Policy Committee co-chair had an added resonance on May 8 with below-the-line employees and virtually everybody else hurting arduous as manufacturing and jobs are scarce.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the hopes of turning issues round, California Governor Gavin Newsom<\/a>\u2019s goal of pumping up the Golden State\u2019s movie and TV tax incentives<\/a> to $750 million yearly is transferring steadily by way of the Legislature in Sacramento<\/a> with deep help. In DC, speak of a federal incentive has the eye of Donald Trump<\/a> for now by way of a plan co-crafted by Special Ambassador to Hollywood Jon Voight. <\/a>In truth, right this moment, SAG-AFTRA joined Voight and fellow Special Ambassador Sylvester Stallone, plus the DGA, the WGA, the Teamsters, the PGA, the MPA and extra in a letter the White House <\/a>that \u201capplauds President Trump\u2019s focus on protecting American jobs and affirms its support for urgent federal action to combat the exodus of film and television production,\u201d within the phrases of SAG-AFTRA nationwide government director\u00a0Duncan Crabtree-Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSpeaking briefly and calling it \u201ca wonderful chance to reconnect,\u201d Crabtree-Ireland was on the Here\u2019s Looking At You occasion final week. In a really clear case of the unusual bedfellows coming collectively in hopes of saving the middle-class Hollywood dream, newly minted AMPTP boss <\/a>and ex-SAG chief Greg Hessinger was there additionally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0In a mixture of gamers and pursuits in supporting the trade, Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas\u00a0(CA Senate, District 28),\u00a0Assemblymember Tina McKinnor,\u00a0and Jodi Long (SAG-AFTRA LA Local President & National Vice-President, LA) confirmed up. Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove\u00a0(Democrat, CA District 37) informed the gang of her SAG-AFTRA member mom and the necessity for much more cash for tax incentive packages.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in attendance had been Shari Belafonte (SAG-AFTRA National VP, Actors), David Joliffe, Spencer Garrett, Alfred Molina and Jason George (SAG-AFTRA National Board). Star Trek: Picard alums and dedicated activists Michelle Hurd (SAG-AFTRA National Board), and\u00a0Jeri Ryan (SAG-AFTRA LA Local Board) had been on deck too.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the elected representatives, LA Mayor Karen Bass<\/a> spoke of her very private dedication to raised and larger incentives on the state and even nationwide degree.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThree generations in my family have been connected to the industry, and I think that a lot of education needs to happen in our city and in our state about all of the ancillary businesses, the caterers, the florists, the tailors, all of the people whose livelihoods depend on this industry,\u201d the primary time period Mayor mentioned. \u201cYou have taken a major blow over these last few years, from COVID to strike and now this but we\u2019re going to turn it around,\u201d Bass concluded, pledging to make it simpler to movie within the City of Angels with decrease allow charges and a extra streamlined course of for productions.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust just like the Rock The City occasion in NYC final month,<\/a> Deadline was SAG-AFTRA\u2019s media companion for the May 8 occasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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