Creative Economy Event:
The Effect of Mass Tax Incentives on the MA Film Industry by Mass Film Office director Nick Paleologos. Feb. 28
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Nick Paleologos, head of the Massachusetts Film Bureau, will talk about the impact of the new tax credits available to companies doing films in Massachusetts. From Hollywood to local producers these new credits make a big difference. Did you know that local filmmakers also receive a 22 1/2-cent tax credit for every dollar they spend? If you want to hear more about how these tax credits apply to companies here (and a few Hollywood stories as well) we invite you to attend
Date: Feb. 28, 2008, Time: 8:30 to 10:00
Place: Enterprise Center at Salem State College 121 Loring Ave. Salem, MA
(directions at www.enterprisectr.org)
Cost: FREE
Nick Paleologos is a two-time Tony Award wining producer and recipient of an Emmy Award for the HBO film “In the Gloaming”. Paleologos is the producer of both the London and Broadway production of Iam Flemmings’s classic movie musical “Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang”.
This event, co-hosted by Salem Film Festival, the Enterprise Center at Salem State College and the Creative Economy Association of the North Shore, is free to attend Register
PS The Mass Film Office recently announced that the Walt Disney Co. is planning to shoot a movie called "The Proposal," starring Sandra Bullock, on the North Shore. Disney has set up a production office at the Cummings Center in Beverly.
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