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Wyoming Filmmakers Join Campaign To Increase Montana Production Tax Incentives
January 23, 2025/
After failing to convince Wyoming lawmakers to enact tax incentives for filmmakers, two brothers from Sheridan are taking their plans to build a production studio to Montana.
“We’ve been looking at different properties and we plan to make an investment in the state of Montana, depending on how the Montana legislation goes,” said Higgins, who as an actor is best known for his work as a company member of the New York City immersive show “Sleep No More” and the NBC series “The Blacklist.”
Legislators, “Educated me about movie manufacturing and as I looked at it, what you needed to do to be competitive in the movie making business, you need to have a tax credit because that’s what everybody else does across the United States,” Hertz said. “So without that, we can’t move forward.”
Hertz is sponsoring the MEDIA Act, which stands for Montana Economic Development Industry Advancement. Supporters of the bill want to see Montana raise its tax credit program from $12 million a year to at least $30 million a year, and thereby continue to attract enough productions to keep the state’s 1,300 or so film professionals employed.
“The way the credit works right now is it’s first come, first served,” Fields said. “So, we have a plan to reserve 60% moving forward for Montana Productions, and I really want to emphasize the people who are leading this bill are Montana filmmakers.”
