The nonprofit group, Texas Motion Picture Alliance, recently formed to help promote and strengthen the state's motion picture industry, says that the state has lost over $500 million in film productions over the last three years.
While the Texas legislature passed a bill in 2005 that empowers the state to offer incentives to compete to get productions to Texas, there was basically a shortfall in funding the needed $30 million to get the program going.
They are feeling the loss as filmmakers have committed strongly to Louisiana and New Mexico, their competing neighbors.
The group was created to help form law and get funding that will aid Texas in getting some of the big dollars that accompany the industry. The alliance will be meeting Sept. 30 to put together a strategy on how to get it done.
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