| Regional plan signed
to draw movie makers

WHEN movie moguls
think about filming in
northwestern B.C, the
Prince George Film Com-
mission is now officially
their first stop.

Terrace, Kitimat,
Prince Rupert and the Ki-
timat-Stikine regional dis-
trict last week signed an
agreement with the com-
mission to make it the
prime marketing gateway
for locations in this area. °

Towns in this area tic
into it through local con-
tacts and extensive books
of information and local
location photos.

Under the agreement,
this region contributes a
total of $10,000 to the
Prince George Film Com-
mission, with a $2,500
Terrace share of that com-
ing from the Terrace Eco-

nomic Development Au-
thority.

It's well worthwhile,
said authority executive
director Ken Veldman, be-
cause it allows Terrace
and the region to tap into
the expertise the Prince
George commission has
developed over the past
three years.

“It allows us to go from
basically standing still ta
full speed in a matter of
months when otherwise it

would have taken us
years,” he said.
Prince George Film

Commission. director Sara
Shaak said the film indu-
siry wants to go through
one central contact point
for the north, but the com-
mission needed to be able
to affer locations that
Prince George alone didn’t

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The arrangement has
already been going on in-
formally for several
months and works well,
says Veldman.

The Prince George
commission refers to the
Terrace authority requests
for locations that could fit
this area.

The local office has put
Terrace area location
photo files into the hands
of location decision ma-
kers for around 15 to 20 lo-
cations in that time.

“We've ended up on
short lists for several of
them either directly in
Terrace or in the general
region,” Veldman added,
“We remain on several
short lists at the moment
where either a decision not

yet been made or a project

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SARA SHAAK, of the Prince George Film Commission, and the Terrace Economic Development Author-
ity's Ken Veldman signed an agreement that adds the northwest to the commission's coverage area.

is in hiatus.”

Even though Terrace
hasn't landed any big
movie so far, the simple
experience of responding
professionally to requests
is valuable, he said.

“We've been able ta
gain some credibility in
(he industry in terms of
being able to respond cor-

rectly and give them the
kind of information they're
looking for,” he = said,
“Even if they do not go
with us on that project
they can get an idea of
what kind of geography
and settings are available
in the region.”

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script does come along
we've got that much more
of a leg up.”

The next regions expec-
ted to join under the same
model are the Cariboo and
northeast.

The model being used
to market northwest B.C. is
innovative enough that it’s

gotten mention in Holly-
wood trade mapazines and
Veldman and Shaak are
being asked to give pre-
sentations in other regions
of B.C.

“As simple as il is it's
abviously something that
isn’t being done regular-
ly,” he said.

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