Michigan Film Incentives Increase Interest in Agricultural Locales

Area farmers could find themselves and their land flashed across movie screens if the Michigan Film Office’s achieves its goal to attract movie executives to the area by highlighting agricultural locations.

According to excerpts from the article:

Is it plausible to think that Michigan could be a destination site for film and television producers looking for that "Field of Dreams" on a Michigan farm?

That's the aim of the Michigan Film Office, which is trying to reach state farmers and agribusiness organizations to develop a pool for agricultural locations to be used in feature films, documentaries, television shows and commercials, print ads and catalog photographs.

"We're trying to work with a variety of state agencies," said Mike Grabemeyer of the Michigan Film Office. "Specifically, we're looking for locations—we get quite a few requests for sets."

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