Anne del Castillo had already spent 90 minutes under attack. But when she was asked to comment on the New York City Council’s proposed 14-day notification requirement for film/TV permits that require special parking requests, the commissioner for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (Mome) was forced, for the first time, to push back.
“14 days will definitely kill the industry, I can’t mince words about that. That’s not how television works and it will go away,” said del Castillo at a September 26 City Council committee hearing. “The demands for content are so great…. and decisions about productions are being made very quickly, the turnaround time on this is very quick. So someone today is writing a script that’s shooting next week.”
And with that, she changed the tenor of the room and sparked the morning’s first round of applause.
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“14 days will definitely kill the industry, I can’t mince words about that. That’s not how television works and it will go away,” said del Castillo at a September 26 City Council committee hearing. “The demands for content are so great…. and decisions about productions are being made very quickly, the turnaround time on this is very quick. So someone today is writing a script that’s shooting next week.”
And with that, she changed the tenor of the room and sparked the morning’s first round of applause.
It...
- 9/30/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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