Wyoming Film Office Blog  Welcome to the Wyoming Film Office
official blog. Bring your shoot to our frontier.  Wednesday,
January 11, 2012  Film, Dollars, and Jobs  There's an
interesting debate going on about Wyoming's economic development
programs, including our own Film Industry Financial Incentive
(FIFI). In particular: do these programs create jobs?  A recent
study from an organization called "Good Jobs First" ranked
Wyoming low in requiring job creation for subsidies, and you can
read all the gory details here. That article in turn triggered
this counterpoint editorial, and its thesis of Yes, we're
getting our money's worth seems like an effective rebuttal.
However, there was one quote from this latter article that's
especially worthy of scrutiny: "The Film Incentive Program is a
revenue and profile building program, not a job creating
program. It doesn’t even belong in the consideration of this
survey."  It begs the question: What exactly is this film
program meant to do? Certainly FIFI acts to attract