The L.A. Film crisis requires bottom-up solutions from actual filmmakers

A depressing article in the L.A. Times from today (at least when I wrote this it was "today" -- 9/18/24) about the state of the film industry: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-18/californias-film-industry-is-in-crisis-can-it-be-saved?

The worst part is how much of the crisis is self-inflicted by the corporations that run Hollywood. But my main issue is with the title: "Can it be saved?" To me, that is the wrong question. The real question is whether the people who can save it (state and Los Angeles politicians and the studios themselves) give enough of a damn to save it.

But one thing is certain -- Corporations are not going to fix what they themselves broke …. See more in the link