Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and actor Dennis Quaid also testified in front of the State Finance Committee on Wednesday.
“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan and actor Cole Hauser pose for a photo while signing autographs for fans at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo in Fort Worth, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023.One of Sheridan’s past projects, however, was shot in a neighboring state because its incentives program was more competitive, he said.which was really my love poem to my state, and they filmed the darn thing in New Mexico,” he said.
Sheridan also said there needs to be more resources to build Texas’ production workforce. He said he used a past incentive to train students at Tarrant County College to work as film crew technicians.“We graduated our first class and I hired them all,” he said. “We desperately need the employees. I would much, much, much rather hire a Texas local than fly in somebody from another state.”“The crew and the cast have a guaranteed job for at least three years.
Quaid said he wants to see the state’s filming incentives rise to $500 million or $1 billion. Georgia, for comparison, offered $1.3 Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker also spoke before the committee, making the case for the financial gains reaped from incentives.“We say in Fort Worth, you don’t have to live in LA to produce film projects and that is absolutely true,” she said, referencing projects by Sheridan and director Ty Roberts, including
Legislators appeared open to the suggestions from supporters of the incentives. In 2017, state Sen. Bob Hall called to abolish the program, saying “it is not the proper role of government to be meddling with the free-market system,”“I don’t know where we could ever put any money that we would get that kind of return,” he said.Uwa is the breaking features reporter at The Dallas Morning News. She previously reported for NBC News Digital and wrote for Slate.
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