Save BC Film group to meet with government this week

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WayneM_9172 posted on 02/17/2013 09:03 AM
This is such a one dimensional movie.
A flat line.
Stop calling yourself BC Film when we don't know you or want to know you in the BC Interior.
Get your priorities straight, BC
We are pissed off in the Interior.
It's all expired food at the Food Banks.
All you do in this Province is put gas in Econolines from Christmas donations, to go around and pick up five year food in boxes and cans for the FB.
You had your kick at the can, BC Film, with your suspicious hiring practises and treatment of Canadians by US stupid story tellers.
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1. commonsense posted on 02/17/2013 09:46 AM
  @WayneM_9172 So it's the Metro Vancouverites fault your food is expired?
  
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2. ScriptySandy posted on 02/17/2013 10:33 AM
  @WayneM_9172 "we don't know you or want to know you in the BC Interior."
  
  Oh really? And do you speak for everyone who lives up there? I think not. First of all, I have a daughter who lives in Kelowna and she and her friends are VERY supportive of film in BC, as is the company she works for.
  
  Secondly; I worked on a film in Kelowna in the fall of 2011 and the businesses that we frequented as crew on our days off (restaurants, shops, spas) LOVED us. We were constantly being comped drinks and desserts etc. with profuse thanks for coming to their city and brining in so much money and business.
  
  So.... yeah, I don't think you speak for anyone who lives there but your bitter self.
  
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BOBF_5970 posted on 02/17/2013 10:46 AM
the latest score:
indian film industry $13,000,000.00
b.c. film industry $0.00
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deang_0114 posted on 02/17/2013 11:01 AM
Well Wayne M you know nothing of what you speak. I am a member of the BC Film Industry and I live in the South OKanagan with my Academy Award Nominated/Genie Award winning wife. There is are a lot of film industry people who live here and contribute to the economy. In 2009 I was on the crew that filled the Osoyoos hotels and motels on "Gunless". Lots of crew people eating in local restaurants and spending their dollars in small town BC. My wife was on two films in Kelowna in 2011 and 2012 that left a large amount of money in the local economy. I was part of the crew that painted the inside of Penticton's Memorial Arena for a film that is now playing in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. You don't want us Wayne? Perhaps you should talk to the little Hockey store in Penticton that I spent 6000.00 in the first week of july last year. I'm pretty sure I helped him make his month. I think he was glad to have the film industry in Penticton for a couple of weeks last july.
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1. insite posted on 02/17/2013 12:52 PM
  @deang_0114 Yes, the Film Industry is an important industry. I went on a tour of the North Shore studios and came away impressed with its contribution to the BC economy.
  
  But, when you meet with MLAs next week, I hope your meeting includes the MLAs and the party which will form the next government. The meeting should not just be an opportunity to pressure the government just because an election is pending.
  
  The industry must appreciate that securing and maintaining a long-term working relationship with the government is just as important as gaining tax benefits in the short term.
  
  Whether an immediate (before May 14) announcement favourable to the industry will re-elect the present government is debatable. At any rate, is that something you should at least bear in mind?
  
  If you succeed in obtaining a tax break from the provincial government under the present circumstances, British Columbians will surely deserve to be told where the money will come from. That question must also be asked of the present government. What other program will be cut or what taxes or fees will be increased?
  
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WayneM_9172 posted on 02/17/2013 02:04 PM
I see the contributions of Film Techs in the Interior on CHBC TV News. Thanks.
Sandy and American Cousin from the Interior way back at the start of the BC Flm Industry.
Undeniable, but wow, our local Mayor didn't want to pay that $10,000 a yr. rent for a local BC Film location office. So I saw I was brainwashed while living in sheltered Vancouver BC Film.
I do know that important conversations between wise elderly people are being seldom recorded in this BC Culture.
Norman Jewison said this was the basis of film making I thought.
My main analysis tool these days is a 3D volumetric display that hovers over the Province in satellite position and it has 100 BC issues showing at the same time.
I would have thought food production and distribution to the public was a concept film people were familiar with.
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UnemployedinBC posted on 02/17/2013 08:44 PM
What Ive seen of the BC film industry is nothing more than a parasitic industry that by its hollywood attitude attaches itself to a community, and then cripples that community closing down public streets highways and parks under the guise of "Were bringing jobs to the community".
One set last summer, perhaps a few motel rooms and one local security guard,only because he has a movie contract and lives here. They brought their own food, everything and used the local park cutting off access to taxpayers and tourists.

if they do need something from a local supplier they barge to the front of the line. "were with the movie.... we need ........" as local bread and butter customers have to wait in line. Kudos to the store that told the movie guy back of the line. I still would shop there if i had the money to shop there.
Im tired of BC being held hostage by this lecherous industry. If they cant make it on their own fine.... then go elsewhere.
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