Earlier this month, we asked you – the readers – to give us your “State of the Industry Address” as 2010 wound to a close. Several of you responded to our call, and over the next few days we’ll be sharing some of these statements with you.
Governor’s Office of Film and Television Executive Director Vince Porter:
Vince recently posted his thoughts on the Film Office’s Oregon Confluence blog:
GOFTV Executive Director Vince Porter
… While there are changes brewing in the motion picture industry, one thing is clear, it’s not going away. Quite the contrary: it is still a $13+ billion net exporting industry for the U.S., and there are specific reasons why this industry can not pack up and move to China or India (language and geography to name a few). The motion picture industry also is a clean industry. You do not have to worry about a film polluting a community’s water supply nor a television series asking the state to build a road.
Oregon’s creative capital is at an all time high, and OPIF and Greenlight deserve some of the credit. More and more people from around the country and around the world are taking notice which in turn means more investment and more work… (Read More)
Vince Porter is the Executive Director of Oregon’s Governor’s Office of Film and Television.
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