B Smith's Second Sticks - Yetee Osunsanmi/California Film Commission

B Smith's Second Sticks talks with Yetee Osunsanmi, Deputy Director from the California Film Commission. The CFC handles a multitude of tasks related to film and television production in the state of California, but their most prominent action is administering the tax incentives provided to productions through Program 4.0, the $750 million dollar state tax incentive. The government increased the amount of money with the intent of both keeping productions in California as well as luring others back to the golden state. There has been some positive movement, but unfortunately not for the non-scripted sector. As of this time, only one non-scripted program ("Schooled", which was produced by Jimmy Kimmel's company) has been approved under the onerous guidelines, which require reality competition shows with budgets of $1 million dollars per episode. We talked about that, as well as the 2nd quarter production numbers in Los Angeles provided by FilmLA, which continue to paint a gloomy picture for the non-scripted sector (reality production days in Los Angeles are currently down 39.9% over the course of the last two years). Not a lot of happy stuff, folks! We do get into a number of other topics, and search for a glimmer of hope. I do want to thank my guest for joining me for what I hope is an informative episode! Please give this a listen and share, knowledge is power.

Show notes: Due to technical difficulties, the YouTube version of this episode will not be readily available. It will be posted at a later date, thanks.

Read about the California state Program 4.0, the film and tv production tax incentive:

https://film.ca.gov/tax-credit/

Read about FilmLA's 2nd quarter report regarding production statistics in the area:

https://filmla.com/research/#quarterly-reports

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