Lawmakers Urge Governor to Support Film Tax Credit
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State Senators Loretta Weinberg (D-37) and Paul Sarlo (D-36) joined Assemblywoman and Freeholder candidate Joan Voss (D-38), film advocates and industry professionals at Fort Lee High School Wednesday to urge Gov. Chris Christie and Republicans in the state Legislature to support “a healthy and robust film tax credit to preserve New Jersey’s motion picture legacy.”
The news conference had been scheduled to take place on the sidewalk in front of the A&P at 2160 Lemoine Avenue in Fort Lee—the location of an historic marker indicating where the Solax Company, one of the largest pre-Hollywood film studios established by pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache and her husband, once stood. But weather forced the event indoors to the Fort Lee High School auditorium just next door.
Sarlo, a leading sponsor of legislation to reinstate the Digital Media and Film Tax Credit , said he’s been an advocate of the program for the 10 years he’s been in the Legislature “because it creates jobs.”
Source: Patch.com