Advocacy

Creates Creative Opportunity Program to fund workforce development, grants, small business support, regional production, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and more.

Increases percentage of the production incentive rebate to ensure our state remains competitive.

Adds Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) provisions to the incentive program to encourage diverse and inclusive productions.

Extends the incentive and labor rebate programs for another 6 years.

Increases the incentive program by 40% from $14M to $20M to attract and retain more production.

Gets Portland Film Office back into the City budget after nearly cut.

Collects and shares data with policymakers around COVID-19 impacts on the industry.

Publishes COVID-19 Production Protocols that help get people back to work safely.

Improves the value of tax credits to ensure continued funding of the incentive program.

Helps sell tax credits to fund incentive program.

Secures an exemption for film productions in a bill that could have banned exotic animals in production.

Facilitates the creation of a film liaison role with Portland’s City Hall.

Helps ensure ongoing support and funding for the Portland Film Office.

Extends the production labor rebate through 2022.

Supports regional incentive fund to support filmmaking outside the Portland metro area.

Gains passage of first funding bill to pass in a legislative short session, expanding tax incentive program from $10 million to $14 million.

Adds video game production and post-production as eligible for incentive funds.

Leads the effort to increase the incentive fund by 66 percent to $10 million per year.

Helps maintain an incentive fund of $6 million.

Develops, writes, and passes Indigenous Oregon Production Incentive Fund to support locally made productions.

Mayor’s Film and Television Liaison position becomes the Portland Film Office under the Portland Development
Commission.

Sees our one-stop permitting program evolve into a Film and Television Liaison position in the mayor’s office.

Helps establish incentive fund for film and television.

Establishes production labor rebate for projects/producers that incur $1 million in expenses in a year.

Initiates one-stop permitting process in Portland.

Facilitates the city of Portland declaring the importance of the film and video industry and becoming competitive.

Develops and publishes industry standards and guidelines.

Produces inaugural statewide production directory of production professionals

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