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LAUSD Renews EIDC Contract to Manage On-Location Film Permitting
EIDC has provided film production management and marketing services for the district since
LAUSD Director of Revenue Enhancement
Rojas went on to explain the growing importance of the school district's film location program. "At a time when schools face many funding challenges, the revenue generated by location shooting helps fill the gap. Fiscal 2004-2005 is on track to be the most profitable year ever(1)."
Individual schools that host on-location shooting receive 75 percent of the revenue they generate. The remaining 25 percent goes into a fund to benefit schools that do not directly generate film revenues.
EIDC provides staff members who work solely on behalf of LAUSD. It is paid a management fee to perform license coordination, accounting, reporting, community relations services and marketing for the district's 800-plus properties.
EIDC currently handles about 450 LAUSD filming days per year. It has streamlined the school district's permitting with efficient internal systems that can process permits the same day if necessary. When EIDC took over management of filming at LAUSD facilities, there were just 19 schools that had hosted on-location filming — today there are more than 200.
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Frequently filmed schools include University H.S. (West
According to MacDonald, recent productions that have utilized LAUSD locations include films such as Fat Albert (20th Century Fox) and Coach Carter
(Paramount), and TV series such as Malcolm in the Middle (FOX), Cold Case (CBS) and Joan of Arcadia (WB).
MacDonald was gratified with the LAUSD's decision to extend EIDC's contract. "We have worked hard to earn the district's confidence over the past three years, and look forward to continuing to build its film location program."
He added that EIDC is also currently in talks with the Burbank Unified School District to handle its film permitting.
About the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation (EIDC)
EIDC is a private, one-of-a-kind 501c(4) nonprofit corporation working on behalf of film, television and commercial producers,
(1) LAUSD recently announced that for the first time since 1992, it has revised the fee structure for filming at its facilities. The revisions include extending "full-day" shooting from 14 to 15 hours, and raising the daily rate from $1,700 to $2,500 — a rate comparable or below the rates charged by neighboring school districts.
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