More than 20 state and city film commissioners from throughout the country will meet today with leaders of the Screen Actors Guild to express their concerns about a SAG proposal that would close a large number of SAG's outlying branch offices. Many film commissioners fear this will have ominous implications for their local economies and communities. When performers can make more money in another market, they move. Migration of performers to another market dries up a talent pool in what was once a successful market. The 'dilution' of a solid professional talent pool is the elimination of a production recruiting tool.
Resultant jobs have less of an economic impact on our bottom line.
To the interior of the country, where producers thought the guild had a diminished presence. Every community has its own character and political views, and it takes someone who lives there and works there to understand how things work. It just makes good business sense to have local representation. Film commissioners from across the country are in Los Angeles this week to attend Location Expo, the trade show for film commissioners being held Friday and Saturday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.