What a twist! $5 million was set aside for small Pa. filmmakers. Harrisburg gave it to M. Night Shyamalan.

[Jason]

$5 million was set aside for small Pa. filmmakers. Harrisburg gave it to M. Night Shyamalan.

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Many indie filmmakers say Shyamalan deserves Pennsylvania film tax credits — but not from the reserve allocated for smaller film-production firms.

 

[silentbob]

Well his budget have been lately like $5-10m and I would say ‘qualifies’ under the term. Although I agree newer artist should be encourage and given a chance too. 

[Mr.Vic20]

Well he is under 6ft and was raised in PA so I guess he qualifies as a "small PA Film Maker"? 

[Greatoneshere]

There is a fairly large art and creative scene in Philadelphia (in part thanks to M. Night, admittedly, since he shoots all his movies in and around Philadelphia) which my wife is also a part of. There are huge Pittsburgh and Philadelphia film collectives that could use this money. But M. Night is the big PA filmmaker name I guess. His films are now much smaller but let's cultivate new talent. That'd be like a PA music fund being given to Trent Reznor (also a PA guy).   Also, mandatory:

 

[Keyser_Soze]

8 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

There is a fairly large art and creative scene in Philadelphia (in part thanks to M. Night, admittedly, since he shoots all his movies in and around Philadelphia) which my wife is also a part of.

 

I KNEW you were married to Robin Wright!