Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Maryland Film Office

Tonight's mission: Peruse the Maryland Film Office website.

I've been here before -- worked on short films before -- but there's nothing like a good review, prior to heading into serious pre-production.  I'd hate to miss some new incentive or a good word of advice.

Unfortunately, the MFO doesn't seem to be taking its website seriously.  Here's the entry for "Film Green":

In Development.
Please check back.
Ah, why post a link if there's no content?  I'm sure I don't know of a good reason.

On to incentives.  I'm sure this film won't reach $500,000 in direct expenses, so the film production rebate fund is out, but I'm not against making use of the sales tax exemption.  Something to think about.

Next, I checked out the online guide to services, to look up local media lawyers.  Nothing.  As far as I can tell, there are no registered services in the database.  Perhaps I'm missing something, but there's not a lot of "there" there on this site.  What works is nice, but everything else -- well, it needs work.

At least the list of union contacts is AOK.

All in all, not quite the most productive evening, but at least sparring night was fairly brilliant.

Did I mention that Friday night is sparring night at the Tae Kwon Do studio that I train at?


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