Fighting to bring film and television work back to California
April 24, 2025
Local 2785, in partnership with Local 399, recently advocated in Sacramento for an increase to the California film tax credit, aiming to raise it to $750 million.
This increase is intended to attract studios back to California for feature films, one-hour shows, and 30-minute episodic series. To support this effort, Local 2785 brought several location managers to testify about the critical role the tax credit plays in their work, emphasizing that it’s the difference between having jobs or not.
California is in heavy competition for productions with states like New York, Georgia, and Louisiana, as well as internationally with Canada and the United Kingdom.
Our fight is to bring production back where it belongs and to ensure our skilled workforce gets the opportunity to work in the industry they’re trained for.
As Location Scout Heather Maclean wisely put it, “We are just better here.”
