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As many production companies don’t call Georgia home and have little tax consequence here, those film credits may be sold for 60-95 cents on the dollar to wealthy Georgians with significant tax liabilities, or bundled and sold as a tax shelter to larger groups of smaller taxpayers.

Film-makers and financiers also fear that Brexit could see the UK’s role in European co-productions threatened because Britain will not be eligible for support from a huge EU funding pot designed to support films across the continent.

“We at Church’s Chicken have been in this community for decades and we believe the narrative here continues to unfold. So, we commissioned our own documentary to help tell the story of the people who live here day in and day out.”

Producers spent five weeks filming in the town of Ball Ground, 50 miles north of Atlanta, which was dressed to look like 1980s Arkansas.

“North Carolinians should not have to travel to places like Georgia to get jobs in film.”

The maximum investment in any project does not exceed $2,500,000 and is targeting the non-studio production in the $500,000 to $5,000,000 range.

“We have the complete package,” Lee Thomas says. The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s deputy commissioner for film, music, and digital entertainment is enumerating the reasons the state makes for an attractive filming destination prior to and independent of the incentive.

The film is no stranger to changes, having shifted production last minute from Canada to Georgia back in March.

The author has a cameo in the movie – In the beginning of the film when Kathy Bates is attending a women’s group the author is the woman that directs the ladies to use their mirrors to look at their southward regions.