Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – To Yoni Bokser, seeing such productions as “Rewind Christmas” or “Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story” filmed across the eight county Western New York region is just the beginning of what he hopes becomes a robust industry.<\/p>\n
Bokser – New York State Governor’s Office of Motion Picture & Television Development executive director – seeing the regional film industry grow is key.<\/p>\n
The foundation is there, Bokser said in crediting Buffalo Niagara Film Commission’s Tim Clark, commissioner for the regional growth. But keep moving forward, Bokser said.<\/p>\n
“Things have changed a lot in the last 10 years,” Bokser said. “Western New York has a thriving film base.”<\/p>\n
The region has 15 regional qualified production facilities led by Buffalo Filmworks on Babcock Street and Great Point Studio on Niagara Street.<\/p>\n
And depending on the production as much as 50% in tax credits and other incentives may be available.<\/p>\n
Bokser noted with each new film shoot in the region, Western New York’s reputation as production-friendly location grows.<\/p>\n
“You are developing a very strong film and TV production economy,” Bokser said.<\/p>\n
Bokser’s view is shared by Karen Utz, Empire State Development regional direcctor.<\/p>\n
“Who doesn’t love to see what’s happening here,” Utz said. “Every movie shot here leaves behind an economic ripple effect.”<\/p>\n
Clark pointed to “A Quiet Place II” that was largely filmed across the region including the Village of Akron.<\/p>\n
The nearly two-month production used 16,480 hotel room nights, 4,200 AirBnB nights, the crews bought 1,200 gallons of paint from local hardware stores and hired nearly 600 people at various points.<\/p>\n
In all, the film’s production company spent $61 million on the movie, with the bulk of those dollars being within the local economy, Clark said.<\/p>\n
“There is a regional effect,” Clark said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – To Yoni Bokser, seeing such productions as “Rewind Christmas” or “Holiday Touchdown: A Bills…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[88293,37067,267,158,9,11,10,49,51,50,130192,97445,5178,130193],"class_list":["post-348136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-all-local","tag-film-industry","tag-local-news","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-tv-production","tag-wben-am","tag-western-new-york","tag-yoni-bokser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}