Support MD Film Incentives Now

We the undersigned of this petition are asking Governor Martin O'Malley and the Maryland State Legislature to revisit the State's Film Incentive Program to attract film production to Maryland.

This does not take money away from existing non-film related state programs as some people have been lead to believe. This is to offer competitive incentives to incoming businesses that serve our film production community and all of the secondary and tertiary businesses in Maryland. Recent studies have shown that a carefully crafted Film Production Incentive Program creates jobs directly and indirectly, increases tax revenue and has a positive return on investment.

Actors and production and postproduction people and facilities are the obvious receivers of this income, but please, remember our lumber yards and metal shops, hotels, motels, vehicle rental, restaurants, wait staff, cooks, bus personnel, local and wholesale food sales, coffee shops, hardware stores, clothing stores. In fact, there are countless businesses that benefit. Maryland was once number five in the nation in film production, generating tens of million of dollars for Maryland. We want to work hard to get back to that number again, but can only do it with your help, and the help of our government leaders.