Archive for category Alaska

Sean Doogan Piksik LLC, an Alaska film and commercial production company with five full-time employees, will close at the end of September. Piksik President Robin Kornfield said the closure would also shutter Alaska House Media, a recent collaboration between Piksik and local NBC affiliate KTUU. Created in 2011, Piksik is wholly owned by the Alaska Native regional corporation NANA. It joined forces with KTUU and its parent […]

By Pat Forgey Gov. Bill Walker has signed legislation ending a state subsidy program for the film industry, even while proclaiming his support for the motion picture business in Alaska. “This does not mean our administration is not supportive of this important industry,” Walker said Tuesday in a prepared statement announcing that on Monday he […]

Pat Forgey JUNEAU — Gov. Bill Walker has signed legislation ending a state subsidy program for the film industry, even while proclaiming his support for the motion picture business in Alaska. “This does not mean our administration is not supportive of this important industry,” Walker said Tuesday in a prepared statement announcing that on Monday he signed […]

JUNEAU — Sen. BIll Stoltze has gotten traction for Senate Bill 39, his effort to repeal the film production tax credit program. “I hate to have something like this competing against our core responsibilities of government,” Stoltze, R-Mat-Su, told the Senate Finance Committee. He cited as “core responsibilities” things like transportation infrastructure, public health and […]

Zaz Hollander Tax credits documented in a new state report show that Alaska’s film industry has continued to grow even as state lawmakers prepare to gut the film incentive program. A bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Stoltze, R-Chugiak, would repeal the state’s film production tax credit program. Gov. Bill Walker has also proposed eliminating the film office’s only three staffers in the […]