Dust to Malibu & Spaghetti Wars: Missouri Film Tax Credit in Action #307

About this episode

Pete Salsich discusses the impact of Missouri’s film tax credit on productions, sharing insights from two projects he worked on.

In this episode of The Screen Lawyer Podcast, Pete Salsich discusses how Missouri’s film tax credit is making a real impact on productions. He takes you behind the scenes of two projects he worked on from start to finish, an independent feature film and a television pilot, that both went from financing to world premiere in less than a year. Pete shares the story of Dust to Malibu, a moving road trip drama starring Tim Daly and Shelly Gibson, and Spaghetti Wars, a mob movie-inspired Italian co...

People in this episode

Host: Pete Salsich III

Topics covered

• Missouri film tax credit
• film production
• independent film
• television pilot
• behind the scenes
• Dust to Malibu
• Spaghetti Wars

Keywords

• Missouri film tax credit
• Dust to Malibu
• Spaghetti Wars
• film production
• television pilot
• independent film

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dust to Malibu, Spaghetti Wars

Places: Missouri

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