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General News: Village Discusses Permits for Filmmakers
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| Director Bette Gordon with the production crew of Handsome Harry. |
November 23, 2011
By Charlie B. Scirbona
If movie producers come to the village, leaders want to be ready with a permit procedure for their work. Film crews occasionally shoot movies in the area, perhaps most famously George Clooney, who shot a scene from Michael Clayton underneath the Moodna Trestle. In Cornwall-on-Hudson, an independent film crew shot scenes from the Handsome Harry at a local residence, bringing a team of 35 with it.
Since he ran for office in March, Mayor Brendan Coyne has been pushing for a permit process to attract film and on Monday trustees discussed a proposed law to create a procedure for anyone wanting to shoot a commercial, film or other sort of audio-visual production in the village. Among the issues that came up was just who might be covered under such a process and who might be considered part of the media.
Trustee Andrew Argenio raised questions about how a permit law would address personal productions, citing his recordings of village meetings as an example. He explained that he posts the videos on YouTube and that he could sell advertising on his YouTube account. Trustee Argenio said that while he doesn’t sell advertising he asked if that would make it a commercial video and thus in violation of the proposed law.
Trustee Jim Kane, who worked on the proposed law with Mayor Coyne, said that this wasn’t the intent of the law.
Trustee Argenio said he was also concerned that the permit law would govern productions done on both public and private properties. While Mayor Coyne said the intent was to govern movie productions, Argenio said the wording was too broad, and felt it could impact a wedding photographer, because the photographer would be making money and the pictures taken could be considered for commercial purposes.
He added that they needed to define who was in the media. The law specifies that the video productions for news or criminal purposes are exempt from the permit law; however Argenio asked how the board could define who was in the media.
These questions ultimately sidelined the call for a public hearing on the law until the board could discuss the wording of the law further.
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here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zj45F4Bhf0
posted by Andrew Argenio on 11/23/11 at 3:11 PM
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