A crew with the Detroit-based Woodward Original production company shoot at the Spot Lite record store in Detroit. Photo courtesy of MiFIA

Macomb Daily reporter Gina Joseph shared an outstanding story about MiFIA's work to create a new multimedia incentive in Michigan. It begins:

NBC TV has a new hit series.

Audiences everywhere, and especially those living along Wayne County’s Lakeshore Drive, are clamoring for a second season of “Grosse Pointe Garden Society.” It’s a quirky dramedy about a garden club in a Detroit suburb, whose members are caught up in murder and mayhem, while struggling to make their conventional lives bloom.

Too bad it’s filmed in Georgia.

“It’s so annoying to us in the industry — to see films about Michigan — being made in another state,” said Peter Klein of Troy, a cinematographer and member of the Michigan Film Industry Association (MiFIA), which is gearing up for another push to get the Multimedia Jobs Act passed into law.

“This is not a handout to Hollywood. This is not a rebate. This is a very different bill,” Klein said, of legislation designed to promote Michigan-produced films, television shows, digital streaming productions, photography and commercials.

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