UM: Film Incentives

In the Detroit Free Press, Priscilla Lindsay – chair of the University of Michigan Department of Theatre & Drama – writes an opinion piece that argues for support of the state’s tax incentives for the film industry, which Gov. Rick Snyder wants to eliminate: “Ever since I arrived in Ann Arbor to begin my stint as chairwoman, theatre students have been knocking on my door, sitting down and telling me about their latest audition for a film, their Detroit agents, their roles in movies shot last summer and this fall as well as projects coming up for spring and summer. The perception of this state as a place to make a living in ‘the biz’ has changed. There is actual ‘work’ here!” [Source]