Continuing news on a recently posted article Sage Sweetwater's Authors Den Poetry & The Colorado Film Commission.

Sage Sweetwater's Authors Den Poetry of The Sundance Wives and Sage Sweetwater using marketing strategy could pay off for the Colorado Film Commission, the Office of Film Television & Media who gives film incentive tax breaks to film companies who film in the State of Colorado.

Sage wrote a screenplay The Sundance Wives: The Gates of Doogun Hill from poetry she posted on Authors Den. The screenplay is currently in Development with Triboro Pictures.  The geographical location of the screenplay is Colorado. Another of her screenplays From The Convent to the Rawhide: The Saga of Sadie Cade and Vi Montana is also in Development with Triboro Pictures.

Two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Friday that would impose a 10-cent fee on every movie ticket sold in the state, beginning July 1, to help fund an incentive program for promoting film production in Colorado.

The measure, House Bill 1207, would funnel fee revenues to the "creative industries cash fund" administered by the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media to offer incentives for the production of feature films, television pilots, television series, commercials, music videos, documentaries and other film projects.

The incentive program offers film producers a 10 percent cash rebate for production costs in Colorado.

To qualify for the incentive program, a Colorado-based production company must spend at least $100,000 in the state on a film project and a company based out of state must show at least $250,000 in qualifying in-state expenses, according to the Colorado film office.

Additionally, for a company to bid for the film-production incentive, at least 25 percent of the workers on the film project must be Colorado residents.

The proposed 10-cent fee on movie tickets would augment money in the incentive fund that now comes from gaming-industry sources, a state film official said.

The movie-fee bill was sponsored by Sen. Nancy Spence, R-Centennial, and Rep. Tom Massey, R-Poncha Springs. Neither Spence nor Massey could be reached Friday evening for comment on their bill.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
Research from the Denver Post and the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media.