Fri: 7PM
New Prospects in the Michigan Film Industry
A talk with Bob Brown, Executive Director of Charity Island Pictures
The Governor’s office has announced
that 6,000 new Michigan jobs will be
created by its efforts to attract film
production companies to the state.
Bob Brown of
Michigan-based
Charity Island
Pictures will
discuss the new
film industry tax
incentive and its
growing impact on
Michigan careers. Brown is serving his fourth term as a member of the Michigan Film Office Advisory Council, where he is Past Chair of the Research Committee. In 2007, he completed the MFAC Film Incentive Baseline Study, a report that was used to support the revised film incentive legislation. Brown entered the feature film business in 1999 with co-founder/partner Jeff Daniels as Managing Partner and Executive Producer of their Michigan based company, Purple Rose Films. Charity Island Pictures was formed in 2004 and has produced SILENT SCREAM (2005) and BONNEVILLE (2006), starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen.Michigan Film Industry
in the News
CNN interview with Governor GranholmJeff Daniels discusses MI Film Industry
Michigan Film News
A Hollywood Sequel for Michigan Workers
(NY TImes)
The Northern Lights Film Festival is sponsored by the departments
of Humanities and Visual
and Performing Arts, and Cin/Optic Media Enterprise.
Michigan Technological University
is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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