Why does everyone make such a big deal about films anyway?
It’s no longer a secret: filmmaking provides enormous economic impact to whatever locality wins the business. Films that end up working in Maryland may have initially contacted 20 other states and countries for location photos. The reason for so much competition is that films employ many locals, sometimes for months at a time. Filmmakers stay in hotels and short term housing; they rent cars: they buy and rent enormous amounts of supplies, feed hundreds of people one, two or three meals a day for several months, and often make improvements to locations along the way. Filming is a clean industry (as opposed to certain types of manufacturing) that provides professional training and creates infrastructure that can attract even more filming in its wake.
