In The News
Traverse City Film Festival to host more than 60 visiting filmmakers Detroit Free Press The seventh annual event, running Tuesday-July 31, is the brainchild of filmmaker and Flint native Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine," "Capitalism: A Love Story"), who set out a few years ago to bring art
films to the popular northern
Michigan ... Are Michigan's film incentives or Gov. Snyder's business tax cut ... A Traverse City movie company that helps make Hollywood movies 3-D is calling for the return of
Michigan's film incentives.
Traverse City company that helped make 'Harry Potter' 3-D wants to see ... MLive.com The incentives program expiring this year provided state grants equal to as much as 42 percent of a
film's Michigan production costs. It made
Michigan an emerging hub for moving making but was seen by critics as too generous. Gov.
...
Michigan Film Productions
The Michigan Film Incentives are alive and well with over $70 million dollars worth of state film incentives being spent in 2011, to date. This fiscal year we have $25 million dollars in film incentives supporting filming augmented by $45 million dollar worth of projects approved in 2010 that are filming in 2011. As a film community we can also celebrate another fiscal year starting October of 2011 and we have another $25 million budgeted for 2011-2012.
Fourteen projects for this fiscal year have been approved with $22.7 million committed resulting in $54.6 in approved production expenditures.
Projects approved in 2010 shooting in 2011
Production Location
Oz Pontiac
Ides of March Detroit, Ann Arbor
Reprise Detroit, Plymouth
Maniac Detroit
When I Need to Smile Detroit, Plymouth
Keys to the Goose Ferndale, Lansing
Chasing Jimmy Caseville, Huron County
2011 Projects
Spy Kids 4 Birmingham
Hung – Season 3 Troy, Bloomfield, Detroit
Domestic Justice Livonia, Ferndale
The Citizen Detroit
I Alex Cross Detroit
Five Year Engagement Detroit, Ann Arbor
Detention of the Dead Pontiac
AWOL Detroit, Ann Arbor
Sparkle Detroit
Freakey Deaky Detroit
Have a Little Faith Detroit
Ben Hogan – Mobil App Royal Oak
For more information, check out the Michigan Film Office Report:
http://www.michiganfilmoffice.org/cm/The-Film-Office/Semi-Annual%20Report%20July%2015%202011.pdf
7 Stones begins filming in Grand Rapids![]()
WYOMING, MICH. -- JULY 24, 2011 -- A new, locally produced film began shooting here yesterday.
7 Stones is written, directed and co-produced by Tom Norton, a West Michigan-based filmmaker who recently received a national Telly Award for his documentary
How Will We Live? The film is about an imprisoned woman who had committed crimes against humanity and, ironically, plans to kill a man to redeem herself. In prison, she meets the mysterious Joseph -- a man trapped but unknown to his captors -- who is determined to destroy their prison from the inside out. In a cell where it is always raining, these two people form a bond based on unsteady trust and shared grief.
"
7 Stones is about a person realizing she made a very bad choice and having the courage to start over," Norton said.
The woman, Laura, is played by local actor
MelissaAnschutz, and the role of Joseph is played by well-known international indie actor
DJPerry. Several other locally based actors round out the cast.
7 Stones'crew involves a number of working industry professionals from West Michigan. "The film inspires for its use of local talent in production and acting and will be a strong addition to the local creative community," said Co-Producer Girbe Eefsting, a principal with Norton at
3rdCoastFilmPartners."This is a film that could help encourage film incentives for creative talent from Michigan, especially West Michigan."
The film is being shot in a former Steelcase facility now known as The Paul Building near Eastern Avenue and 36th Street in Wyoming. A portion of the vast space has been transformed into a working movie set to accommodate a six-day shoot on a set designed by West Michigan production designer John Despres. An Emmy winner for his work on the children's television show
Come On Over, Despres also managed set design for the feature-length film
The Steam Experiment starring Val Kilmer and Armand Assante, which filmed in Grand Rapids several years ago.
7 Stoneswill be featurette length, approximately 45 minutes. Producers plan to market it nationally and internationally as well as submit it to major film festivals. More in the Media Room at
http://www.3rdcoastfilm.com/index-4.html.
MEDIA CONTACT: Molly Klimas
616.443.4647
klimas@intentpr.com
Crew Call
Shoot August 14 to the 18
thin Traverse City. This is a general call for crew with emphasis on local crew.
1. Set Dresser - $300/12
– 8/13-8/19 2. Art PA - $200/12 –
8/13-8/19 3. Assistant Camera - $200/10 –
8/14-8/18 4. Sound Mixer - $400/10 –
8/14-8/18 5. Teleprompter Op. - $250/10 –
8/14-8/18 6. Set PA's (3) - $150/12 –
8/13-8/19 7. Office PA - $175/12 – 8/13-8/19
8. Hair/Make-up - $500/12
9. Craft Services PA - $200/12
10. Script Supervisor/Logger - $250/12
Send your information to
suz.randle@gmail.com 
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