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Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom came to Los Angeles and announced a long overdue change to the state’s tax credit program for film and TV production. The state would allocate $750 million of tax dollars — up from $325 million — to film productions in an effort to keep filming in California. Scott Budnick, […]
It’s fair to say Sean Baker is trying to change how people look at sex workers. In his iPhone-shot 2015 indie “Tangerine” he explored a friendship between two transgender sex workers who find solace in their support of one another. In “Starlet” and “Red Rocket,” he used the porn industry as a way of dissecting […]