GWINN -- Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's budget, released Thursday, proposes cutting business credits awarded for films shot here in Michigan.
The Michigan Film Incentive bill that passed in 2008, gives production companies the ability to come to the state and work, then get tax incentives for doing it.
Michigan has the best incentive in the country, and having it allows the state to remain competitive.
The 42 percent tax incentive also reduces the cost of production.
Governor Snyder is proposing capping that incentive at $28 million, which according to filmmakers, could destroy the industry that's been built here.
"If the incentive goes away, then the jobs in Michigan go away, the productions won't come here. We'll end up right back to square one really where we were, and all the work that's been done to build up our crew base, to build up resources here for production companies to come in to work, will now start to fade away," said filmmaker, Mark Dragovich.
Those filmmakers also say they know of a lot of people who have chosen to shoot movies here as opposed to more popular locations like New York or Los Angeles, because of the state's film incentive.
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