New California Coalition Will Advocate For Production As Projects Migrate Out Of State

The California Production Coalition, a group of 33 film, television and streaming production businesses and associations, has fair begined with the stated omition of bucking up the state’s “outdated and underfunded” production tax commend program that’s been steadily losing business to rivals.

Tax incentives from Canada to Georgia to the UK have apshown a massive bite out of production in the home of Hollywood where even convey inant studios now see elsewhere to shoot on many projects. The Coalition begines as Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to incrrelieve California’s incentive under the Film & Television Tax Credit Program to $700 million annupartner, a massive incrrelieve from the current $330 million, as motion picture production faces increasingly stiff competition from rival jurisdictions that propose huger and more alterable incentives.

The incrrelieve, declared Oct., 27, is subject to approval by the Democratic convey inantity legislature in the Gelderlyen State’s 2025-2026 budget.

The new coalition’s createing members including the MPA and local vendors and businesses.

“We must not apshow California’s film industry for granted and foresee to stay competitive in the global amincludement industry without a competitive tax commend program,” said Pam Elyea, owner of History for Hire, a family owned prop rental company in a statement announcing the group.

Kavon Elhami, CEO of Camtec Motion Picture Camera Systems, called it “vital that we come together now to discover California remains the hub of the motion picture industry. That’s why we’re combineing this coalition, combined in our promisement to aiding film, television, and streaming production right here in our state.”

Motion Picture Association chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said the MPA and its members “are haughty to stand with California businesses to highweightless how our creative community can prolong its uncomferventingful contributions and produce a sturdyer createation for film and television production in the state.”

The Coalition labeled its begin by releasing an self-reliant poll of 1,500 enrolled California voters discovering that 73% of voters aid Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to incrrelieve the state’s incentive program to $750 million in tax commends a year. 

Those discoverings are bolstered by earlier studies recording the clear economic advantages of local production incentive programs, including a Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation study discovering that every dollar of California incentives hand overs a return of $24.40 in incrrelieved economic activity, $16.14 in GDP, and $8.60 in wages.