I went to the Dodger/Angel Game Saturday night (June 12th) with my friend from Spain (he snapped this picture of me as I was pondering the title of this blog).

As I looked out at the crowd of 40,000 plus I could not stop thinking about how important it is to get as many people as possible to subscribe to www.shootmoviesincalifornia.com.

Its important for many reasons.

When I started the first Facebook Group for this grassroots effort to keep work from being sucked out of California, it grew so fast that I had

to start a 2nd Facebook Group and then that group exploded and I started

a 3rd group which is known as a Fan Page on Facebook.

All three groups combined total to this date is  15,654 people!

This is amazing but……………….?

Look; Facebook is great, I call it “Networking Lite”.

Facebook is a great gathering place for people, and especially people in the entertainment industry.

The downside of Facebook is this; when a group hits 4,999 you lose the ability to communicate with each person in a single email.

The reason I started this blogsite is so that I could communicate with everyone with ONE Email.

A grassroots effort can not survive without being able to communicate to your group.

In order to do this, people need to subscribe to our blogsite www.shootmoviesincalifornia.com. Watch this video below and  it will show you how to do this.

So please tell all your friends that are in the Movie, TV and Commercial business and especially your friends that are not in the business to support this cause.

It’s easy, just forward this email to as many people you know that don’t want to move out of California.

Its very important to let everyone know, not just filmmakers, that we will lose what we have here in California.  We don’t want to become the next Detroit, Michigan.

The video below was made in Detroit where I shot my last film.

It is a Thank You speech/Documentary that I made for the LA City Council for honoring Mike Kehoe and myself.

I could not be there, so I made this short Thank You/Documentary.

Below is a response to this video  from a friend who is a high level executive in the movie industry.

I found it to be very profound and asked if I could reprint it.

This is someone that looks at these trends for a living.

Nice work!  Very heartfelt and right on message.  I think the underlying point here “this could happen to Los Angeles and California just as easily as it happened to Detroit and Michigan” could be brought out more in subsequent messaging.  I’m sure no one in Detroit thought ahead and said “gee, if we don’t do something about the auto business this place will look like a bombed out city in 10 years,” and I’m sure no one in LA is thinking the same.  But as the industry trickles away, and it is certainly doing that, it will begin to have profound effects on the LA economy specifically and the California economy generally.   No one is thinking ahead to that, just worrying about today.  But how many studio lots are now under-utilized?  How many post houses and labs are on the verge of tipping over?  How many below-the-line workers have left the state to work in New Mexico, Vancouver, Michigan, New York?  Just as production spending in a city like Detroit has a magnifier effect, so does lack of production spending in Los Angeles have a ripple impact on the economy.  The images of the Detroit cityscape were devastating; let’s hope we’re not in line for something like that!

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