[NEohioPAL]Support local films: State senate to vote on new Ohio film commission this week.

[James Renner]

Lt. Governor Lee Fisher knows the importance of making Ohio more 
film-friendly. In the new state budget for 2008 and 2009, he included 
funding for a new statewide film commission, the Ohio Film Bureau. 
Unfortunately, the state House of Representatives cut the bureau out of 
their version of the budget last month. The state Senate is currently 
considering whether or not to put it back in.

Please contact your local senator and tell them to include the Ohio Film 
Bureau in their version of the new budget. A state-level office, with 
oversight, can better market Ohio as a whole to film companies and hold 
municipal film commissions accountable for the work, or lack-there-of, they 
are accomplishing. It's a win-win for anyone interested in working in film 
and TV.

You can find the contact info for your local senator at 
www.senate.state.ohio.us

-James Renner

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