B.C. Film Commission budget cut by 23 percent
In the 2010 B.C. provincial budget introduced today, the estimates for the B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and the Arts included a 23 percent cut to the B.C. Film Commission.
Last year’s appropriation (2009-2010) was $1,235,000. Next year’s appropriation (2010-2011) is $948,000.
NDP arts and culture critic Spencer Herbert told the Straight that it doesn’t make sense to cut the film commission’s funding.
“The film industry has been struggling, obviously, given the government’s endless delays on tax credits. Some industry estimates are $200 million in business because of that,” Herbert said by phone from Victoria. “We can’t afford to be cutting the film commission that does that work of landing projects here—which promotes our work here—with unemployment at the rate that it is.”
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