Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass It released a new executive on Monday to support local film and television jobs.
Bass, who spoke at a press conference in Hollywood, admitted how the Los Angeles film industry has been affected over the years by the Covid-19 and recently. forest fires.
Then the mayor announced the new matter, which said, “It will make photography easier in Los Angeles.”
According to a press statement, Bass’s direction highlights many guidelines to make the production of films and television in Los Angeles easier and to help reduce costs.
The mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass holds an expected executive guidance to announce his support for photographing and producing jobs, at the SAG-Aftra Union headquarters in Los Angeles, on May 20, 2025.
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First, the city’s departments requires “making the famous city sites easier and affordable for photography” by “creating instructions for photographing the site on the site, cutting the time schedules for review, and calling for a certain city fee.”
After that, the guidance calls for a reduction in “costs and coordination time by reducing the number of city administration employees who were appointed to monitor photography on one group of city employees, and the city law allows.”
During the press conference, Bass noticed how “current practices” require “many employees”, which “raise the cost and add layers of bureaucracy.”
The final details that guidance orders are “setting a pre -emptive and film -friend approach to communication between the city’s departments and production, including communication with the upcoming infrastructure projects that can affect the photography schedules.”
Bass received the support of the Los Angeles Council member Adrien Nazarian, who has made a partnership with the mayor to help simplify the filming process.
At the press conference, Nazarian Bass thanked “hearing the cry of filmmaking and television in a loud and clear voice and took the necessary steps so that we can stop the tide and go back.”
“Given the terrible conditions in which we are, we cannot allow the Los Angeles heart to leave Los Angeles.”
The mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass holds a press conference before signing an executive directive to announce his support for photographing production jobs, at the SAG-Aftra Union in Los Angeles, on May 20, 2025.
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The new executive guidance comes more than a month after a a report From Filmla, the Los Angeles City Partner and and other local judicial films office issued an update on photography in the region.
The report found that the production on the site in the region “decreased by -22.4 percent from January to March 2025.”
According to the report, the production of TV drama in the first quarter decreased to -38.9 percent, while the production of TV comedy decreased by 29.9 percent.
After forest fires, the report indicated that “nearly 545 unique photography sites are located inside the burning areas.”
These areas are still outside the border, according to the report.
