Tax Incentives

  • Movie News

Acacia Building New Arizona Film and TV Studio to Seize on New Tax Incentives

Acacia Filmed Entertainment is building a new film studio and production training facility in Arizona in response to a new…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Brooklyn’s Better: Lytehouse Studio Offers Cutting-Edge Production Facilities Without Skyline-High Manhattan Rates

Even back then cheap apartments were hard to find in Manhattan,” says Peter MacNicol during his opening monologue in Sophie’s…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Louisiana Film Prize: An Event Unlike Any Other, Offers $50K to Prove It

Autographed photos line the walls of the small coffee shop inside the Hilton Hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana. The attendant tells…

6 years ago
  • Best Of

ICYMI: The Best of September 2017 on MovieMaker.com

September's ended so it is time to wake up. We’ve gathered those must-save guides and more September highlights—including an in-depth…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2017

Getting Lucky in Nevada: With a Restored Tax Incentive and Plenty of Locations, There’s More to Nevada Than Casinos

Showbiz. Shenanigans. Sizzle. Sin City has long played home to high-octane cinematic productions. More often than not, the blinding neon…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Festival Wrap: A Weekend Film School, Spaceballs Screening and Joe Pantoliano at Sunscreen Film Festival 2017

Through its unprecedented success on both the festival circuit and mainstream awards platforms, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight has become the flagship…

7 years ago
  • Inside MM - Best Of
  • Winter 2017

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017

As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes,…

7 years ago
  • Producing

The Most Beautiful Scenery in North America? Perhaps. Welcome to the Canadian Northwest Territories

A long, relaxed magic hour—say what? It’s true: Deep into the summer in Canada’s diverse, gorgeous and underrated Northwest Territories…

7 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Pulling off an Icelandic Co-Production with Autumn Lights

Autumn Lights is the first independent American-Icelandic co-production in history to be both shot and completed in Iceland. Producer and…

8 years ago
  • Producing

Max Incentives: Five Best Practice Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Tax Incentives

So you've read our Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2016 lists (Big Cities and Small…

8 years ago
  • Best Of

Top 10 Cities to Be a Moviemaker: 2013

Let’s assume for the moment that this June you’re graduating from film school in, say, New York. You know some…

11 years ago