Shot in Texas

The same $3M show in three states, at base rates, with the rules that actually change the answer: transferability, caps, residency and crew travel. Including the cases where Texas loses.

Three Texas pictures at $252K, $2.5M and $5M, run against Georgia, New Mexico and California. The base each state counts decides more than the rate.

One state office runs the grant. Eleven regional commissions run the ground. 218 certified communities have a local liaison. Who does what, and who to call.

What the program actually is, the two thresholds that decide whether you qualify, and the places productions lose money they thought they had.

Three hundred million dollars a biennium for a decade, a rebuilt tier ladder that tops out at 31%, and about a hundred applications already in. The numbers, precisely.