Bill Offers Incentives to Bring Filmmakers to Minn.  Updated:
03/25/2013 6:15 AM By: Nick Winkler  A Minnesota bill, sponsored
by Sen. Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka, would award filmmakers
production credits that would allow them to recoup up to 25
percent of their costs.  The goal is to make Minnesota more
competitive with other states offering incentives to movie
makers. Additionally, Bonoff says the movie industry is
lucrative and offering incentives could boost the economy.
While the credits could be awarded to independent filmmakers in
Minnesota, the intent is to target those who were not originally
planning to make movies in Minnesota.  Independent filmmakers in
Minnesota say while they support putting Minnesota on
Hollywood's map, the credits will not likely benefit the smaller
independent filmmakers who are currently making movies in
Minnesota.