LANSING – On Wednesday, Nov. 18, a joint meeting of the House Tax Policy Committee and the Committee on New Economy and Quality of Life will hear testimony on the success of Michigan’s film incentive program. Created in 2008, the program offers some of the most competitive tax credits in the country to filmmakers in an effort to create jobs and diversify Michigan’s economy.

WHO: State Representatives Kate Ebli (D-Monroe), Chair of the Tax Policy Committee, and Ed Clemente (D- Lincoln Park), Chair of the Committee on New Economy and Quality of Life, and other committee members; Mitch Albom, author and Detroit Free Press columnist; Allen Park Mayor Gary Burtka; Bill Black of the Michigan Teamsters; Jimmy Lifton of Unity Studios; Grace Keros, Owner of American Coney Island; Harvey Grace of Grace and Wild Inc.; Bill Ludwig, Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Campbell-Ewald; Tim Magee, President and Business Agent of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 812; John Rakolta Jr., Chairman and CEO of Walbridge Aldinger; and independent filmmaker Sultan Sharrief

WHERE: State Capitol

House Appropriations Room (Room 352)

Lansing

WHEN: 9 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18