Hollywood Gets Another Break While Angelenos Foot the Bill
FilmLA and City Hall extend a permit discount for film productions through April 30 — savings for studios, while ordinary residents deal with the fallout on their streets.
FilmLA runs the Low Impact Permit Pilot Program together with the city of Los Angeles, and it has now extended the program through April 30. For critics of the way City Hall hands out favors, this is the same old story: the industry gets a deal, and taxpayers get the bill.
Qualifying productions continue to save an average of approximately $1,000 per permit. That is real money — but it flows to productions, not to the residents who live with the crews, the traffic and the disruption in their neighborhoods.
More than 400 Low Impact permits have been issued since the program launched in April, and officials say they went to productions with minimal impact on surrounding Los Angeles residents. Skeptics will want that claim tested, not simply repeated by the agency that hands out the permits.
Original reporting
Variety
FilmLA Extends Lower-Priced Permits for Small and Independent Projects – Film News in Brief
FilmLA’s Low Impact Permit Pilot Program with for Los Angeles has been extended through April 30, allowing qualifying productions to continue saving an average of approximately $1,000 per permit. Since launching in April, more than 400 Low Impact permits have been issued to productions that have a minimal impact on surrounding L.A. residents. The pilot […]
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Facts this version was allowed to use
- FilmLA runs the Low Impact Permit Pilot Program with the city of Los Angeles.
- FilmLA extended the Low Impact Permit Pilot Program through April 30.
- Qualifying productions continue to save an average of approximately $1,000 per permit.
- More than 400 Low Impact permits have been issued since the program launched in April.
- The permits were issued to productions that have a minimal impact on surrounding Los Angeles residents.
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