Standing at the Los Angeles headquarters of Hollywood Actors Guild in Los Angeles together with a Cavalcade or players of the film industry, Mayor Karen Bass promised Tuesday to facilitate the productions filming in Los Angeles.
The mayor signed an executive directive to support local cinema and television jobs: an action said lower costs and rationalize the city’s processes for filming in place, as well as increase access to legendary locations, including the Griffith Observatory. The measure was animated by representatives of the Federation of television artists and television radio and other radio leaders and other union leaders.
In the 115 years since DW Griffith filmed the first film in the then Village of Hollywood, it was firmly established as the global capital of film production.
However, although the city remains international synonym for cinema magic, it has production jobs bleedingly to other states and countries that sacrifice tax incentives, the cheapest work and the most friendly cares for filming.
Now, in the midst of a broader recession in film and television production, the local industry is at an existential crossroads.
Will angels continue to be a place where middle -class entertainment workers, below the line, can make a living and new productions sound, or the city has permanently yielded that land?
Changes ordered by the mayor are relatively modest, but industry veterans expect some of the loads facing soft logistics productions and logistics problems.
“We have the tasks of the industry for granted,” Bass said. “We know that the industry is part of our DNA here. And sometimes, if you think it is part of your DNA, you can think it will always be here.”
Bass, who said that his own family had been involved in the film industry for three generations, also urged the state legislature to approve a legislation that would increase the fiscal credits of film and television production so that the State is more competitive. When he launched his proposed budget reviewed last week, Governor Gavin Newsom maintained his promise to double the fiscal credit of the California film to $ 750 million next year.
The Los Angeles characteristic industry has been mistreated by a series of crisis and winds against recent years, from the Covid-130 pandemics closures that then closed severely reducing production to Hollywood’s twin work strikes in 2023 and protractic.
January 2025 were simply the last blow. It is estimated that 30 film and television productions were closed briefly due to the fires of Palisades and Eaton, according to industry estimates.
In the first three months of this year, location production in the Los Angeles metropolitan area decreased by almost a quarter, compared to the same period of the previous year.
The pain has reverberated far beyond study backlots. The restaurants have fought to keep their doors open and a current of Hollywood workers has abandoned the city.
Dwindling Filming is having a broader “multiplier effect” in the local economy, said the member of the Adrin Nazarian Council, who repeats the Eastern Valley of San Fernando and introduced an earlier proposal of the City Council to rationalize the process of city films permits.
“Many of the people who are affected live in the district. Therefore, they are their mortgages. If mortgages are not bees rooms, people are losing houses, if people are not colliding snapshots in restaurants or in the costs of living their kisses, their children do not come to the city,” said Nazarian.
The challenges of the industry go far beyond productions that are not properly supported in Los Angeles.
In the era after Peak television, the film and television industry, at least for the moment, has been contracted significantly.
The recently apogee of the transmission wars, when the subscription services of the competition unleashed a cash hose and an excess of content to try to deploy in the Netflix market domain, is over.
The studies are of green light and are being detached. The generous tax incentive programs in other states and abroad have also made it much more difficult for angels to be feasible economics.
All this means that even if the mayor stir a magical wand and that it was infinitely easier for productions to shoot in the iconic streets of Los Angeles, he would still not follow automatically.
But the Bass directive “will help the immediate productions that are already here,” said Local Teamsters 399 Lindsay Dougherty, which repeats more than 6,000 film equipment in Hollywood, including drivers and location managers.
“All these things matter,” Dougherty said, while citing the need for more funds for the state tax credit program and the possible federal legislation. “When a production company is looking to budget, this is part of this.”
The mayor’s executive directive has a series of components that aim to reduce production costs, including the reduction of the city’s personnel that must be on the site in a filming place for a single staff member.
Bass is also directing all the city departments to report on how their current “associated with the staff or inspections on the site” can be reduced.
The order also aims to facilitate the shot in a particularly illustrious number or properties of the city. The city will reduce rates for filming at the Griffith Observatory, which according to cinema defenders has become prohibited expensive to use as location. The filming will still be limited to the moments when the observatory is not open to the public.
Bass also promised to insane the long waiting periods of the insurance review prevented some productions from filming in the port of Los Angeles and Sid would reopen the central library of the center for filming.
Industry defenders have been raising these problems with the mayor’s office in recent years and some had previously expressed the frustration that the bass had not been more proactive in filming.
The personnel writer, Samantha Masunaga, contributed to this report.
