TheStay in LAcampaign, a call to keep more production in the city, has hit 20,000 signatures with high-profile stars includingAndy Garciaand Marisa Tomei joining the call alongside filmmakers includingJonathan NolanandPaul Feig.
This comes after a week of awards season events where the likes ofHacksco-creator Paul W. Downs and DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter stumped for the campaign at high-profile shindigs.
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AsHacks, which shoots in locations including Altadena, won best comedy series at the Critics Choice Awards,Downs said that we need to ask to shoot our shows in LA and the people in the room have the power to make it happen, whileLinka Glatter, who lost her home in the wildfires, urged directors to insist that your projects are shot where they are set.
Other stars joining the campaign include Natasha Rothwell, Chelsea Peretti, Maya Erskine, Jay Duplass, Camilla Luddington, Zach Woods, Matt Rogers, Ginnifer Goodwin, Trew Mullen, Julie Bowen, Lewis Pullman, Troian Bellisario and Krysten Ritter.
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Filmmakers joining the call include Anja Marquardt, Kimberly Peirce, Niki Caro, Drew Pearce
Deniz Gamze Erguven, alongside writers and showrunners including Shawn Ryan, Simran Baidwan, Sera Gamble, Jonathan Lisco, Lauren Iungerich, Alena Smith, Liz Hannah, Tanya Saracho, Meaghan Oppenheimer, Matt Nix, Annie Mumulo, Kirsten Kiwi Smith, Andrea Berloff and Nicole Perlman and producers Nina Jacobson, Kristin Burr, Jonathan Wang and Andrea Sperling.
The group has proposed uncapping the tax incentive for productions that shoot in LA County for the next three years as part of the overall disaster relief effort as well as calling on the studios and streamers to pledge at least 10% more production in LA over the next three years.
They want to uncap mediums to also bolster short-form productions such as commercials as well as post-production work, want to reduce or eliminate permit fees to lower the cost of production and address insurance restrictions.
They have urged Governor Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, the California State Legislature and the LA City Council to join forces on such emergency measures.
The campaign was started by Alexandra Pechman, who has written on series such as SyfysChannelZeroand HulusInto The Dark, and Sarah Adina Smith, who has directed episodes of ApplesLessons in Chemistryand FXsLegion, alongside Nick Antosca, Julie Plec, Michael Sucsy, and Alex Winter in partnership with CA United, led by Pamala Buzick Kim, Wes Bailey, and Marie Dunaway.
