Film and Digital Media Production

The Harford Courant's article on plans to convert  an abandoned Army engine plant in Stratford into a movie studio with 30 soundstages.

Read more here.

  Connecticut Film Center will be launching a production and soundstage facilities at a recently purchase 155,000-square-foot building at 300 Stillwater Ave.   The 7 acre location is at the center of a $20 million expansion according to the president of CT Film Center, Kevin Segalla.  Segalla credited the digital media and film tax credit for the industry growth that led to this latest investment.

The CT Film Fest is going interactive.  There is a full set of tracks and content on interactive media.  Go to - http://interactive.ctfilmfest.com/ for more information.

With the state looking at ways to save, film production and infrastructure tax credits have come under attack from both budget cutters and advocacy groups that want the money for human services.

A new online resource center was launched today by Connecticut's Office of Workforce Competitiveness and Connecticut's Commission on Culture & Tourism's Film Division.   The site, at http://www.ctdigitalworkforce.com/, is a guide to the growign film and digital media industry job and career opportunities.  

Many film and digital media industry executives (including yours truly) see the film and digital media tax credits as providing Connecticut with a competitive advantage in one of the few industries creating quality job and business opportunities.  Suprisingly, despite the potential of the industry and the need for more job creation, these tax credits are coming under threat.

Blue Sky Studios, the subsidiary of Fox Filmed Entertainment and creator of the Ice Age movies and Horton Hears a Who!, hasofficially arrived in Connecticut.  Blue Sky Studios is moving 300 employeers into over 100,000 square feet of space in Greenwich, CT.

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The Coalition recently launched to lend a voice in strong support of the digital media and film industry and the state’s tax credit program.  As organizations and people coming into direct contact with this sector, the industry is seeing first-hand clear and positive evidence that the state’s incentive program is working in communities throughout Connecticut.

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