Things are looking up for North Carolina's film industry. An updated grant program has Hollywood taking notice.
The North Carolina Film And Entertainment Grant Program is funded at $30 million. The grants replace the former refundable tax credits, which the state ended in 2014. Those credits were double that amount.
The local film industry suffered a blow when the tax credit program expired.
But Wilmington Regional Film Commission director Johnny Griffin says the state is seeing a rebound now that the grant program has been established.
Griffin tells WilmingonBiz.com that the lower-incentive grants may not appeal to big budget films and long-running TV series.
But Griffin says producers of shorter series and smaller films are once again putting North Carolina on their short list for possible filming sites.