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Vince Porter is our new Executive Director in the Governor's Office of Film and Television - he recently left his position with Showtime and actively meets with our state legislators, local film professionals and promotes production in Oregon.

With regard to current production, the TNT television series LEVERAGE has just relocated to Portland and they're in full production. Also shooting is the Harrison Ford produced film CROWLEY, the feature GOLF IN THE KINGDOM(shooting in Bandon) and as you may know, the hugely successful film TWILIGHT was shot here recently.

The exciting challenge for us right now is to encourage and support a new generation of producers and directors based in Oregon: JIM CLARK, GRETCHEN MILLER, JAMES WESTBY, NEIL KOPP, BRETT CRANFORD and DAVID CRESS.

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The film business is growing in Oregon and our state is offering competitive incentives of 16% return on labor and 20% return on goods and services for productions over $750k.

If you would like to participate and support production in OR, please email Senator Rosenbaum at sen.dianerosenbaum@state.or.us and show support for The Oregon Production Investment Fund(OPIF) - SB621, and The Independent Oregon Production Investment Fund(IOPIF) - SB863.

OPIF is an annual fund of $5 mil in incentives for productions over $750k. IOPIF, if passed, is a new fund equalling 5% of the OPIF fund, for productions over $75k. Both funds are critical to making Oregon a competetive film state and creating a thriving industry here. More information on these incentives is available at www.ompa.org.

Our business, HIVE-FX, is thriving since we returned a few years ago from CA - HIVE is a VFX/Animation/Post facility based in SE Portland(www.hive-fx.com). We currently employ 15 people and we're expanding into a larger facility with 3 new divisions, built on the business we generate from the PDX and LA production markets. We anticipate employing 30+ entertainment professionals within the next 12-16 months in both service based VFX and animation projects. At the same time, we're developing original content like MOUNTIES(www.mounties.com) and shooting our first feature this summer titled CHIHUANHAS (www.chihuanhas.com). CHIHUANHAS is a comedy monster movie of half Piranha/half Chihuahua creatures that take-over a Mtn lake and campground. HIVE-FX will serve as both the production company and post VFX facility for the film. Our goal is to produce a feature a year by accessing state incintives and partnering with private investors - Oregonians interested in the film industry and job creation.

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