re: What Happened To The Movie Industry In Louisiana?

Can you get me a role in the movie?

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I’ve worked on about 25 movies.

The highest paid people on a movie, actors not from Louisiana, directors not from Louisiana, plus half the PAs not from Louisiana, and instead of hiring a local caterer for craft services they brought in a fricking taco truck from California. So what if your boom guy is from New Orleans. They bring in way too many people from out of state.

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As someone that worked for years at a restaurant in BR, we got calls all the time to do large deliveries to set, held wrap parties, many of the costume designers, assistants, etc of the other people employed by the movie from Cali would come in. We would get quite a few in the restaurant EVERY. NIGHT. I remember the first year after the cap, the same people that would spend 6-8 months a year in BR no longer came back to LA for work and we lost all their business. We weren't the only ones to get hit by it either.

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’ve worked on about 25 movies. The highest paid people on a movie, actors not from Louisiana, directors not from Louisiana, plus half the PAs not from Louisiana, and instead of hiring a local caterer for craft services they brought in a fricking taco truck from California. So what if your boom guy is from New Orleans. They bring in way too many people from out of state.

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so you want productions to hire all the local directors and DP's?
And obviously there aren't a lot of real local producers either.
i have never seen a PA brought in from out of state ... some of the California caterers set up satellite branches.

Do you know how expensive it is to bring someone in ?? 3000 in housing a month, per diem of at least $500 a week, rental cars etc. it's in the productions interest to hire local at almost every below the line position when they can.

I have worked on well over 50 movies at a high level ... and i can guarantee you when i start my next show in NOLA next week my staff of 75+ plus will be 100% local.

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Are you in Louisiana?

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Yes And the movie that the taco truck was on a movie called Arena shot in Baton Rouge.

Didn't Edwards cap the movies?

And I'll add, to his credit.

See, that's the thing, we need a title card or credit logo for Louisiana. As far as I'm aware, we don't have one, but if you watch at the end of a movie's credits, if it was filmed in New York, it'll have a New York Film logo.

Video games too. Every time you boot up Smite, you get that peach logo.

There is a Louisiana Film Logo.

You have to remember everything Georgia is doing from an incentive perspective was modeled off of what Louisiana has done. They just like wasting even more money than us.

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how would one start out as a crew member and rise to director in the industry here??

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Not sure but it likely involves penises.

Remember all the bridges and loops we were building with that movie money? Man, those were good times...