Write to Iowa's Governor Branstad, Please!

I asked my dear friend Dave Thrasher to help me draft a letter which we in the Iowa film family could send to our governor. Now all you have to do is copy and paste it and send it to the governor using the below email address. The governor has NOT heard from many at all, in fact, very few, so by you sending a letter he will feel our presence and realize our needs. DO IT!!! thanks.. gino send to: (email: governor.contact@Iowa.gov)


Dear Governor Branstad,

For over two years we in Iowa's film community have gone without being able to employ our skills and talents once utilized in feature films shot in Iowa. We had nothing to do with the film program wrongdoings, yet our “Field of Dreams” has become a “Field of Nightmares”. Many of our film colleagues were forced to move out of the state in order to pursue film-making careers, but many of us remain in Iowa hoping and waiting for things to get better and for the Iowa Film Office to re-open.
For us, film and television production here represented both financial opportunity and the chance to continue to live with our friends and family in Iowa without needing to move and thus increase the talent base and tax base in other states.
Re-establishing the Iowa Film Office and encouraging film productions to shoot in Iowa will help you fulfill your pledge of creating more jobs for Iowans.
We very much appreciate your efforts in your previous administrations with your original creation of the Iowa Film Office and we urge you now to re-establish it , with sufficient staffing and sufficient funding. It is a crucial first step in reviving film activity in the state, activity that will lead to contributions to the economy of our state.This is a way of bringing money from outside our state and will benefit not only those who get film jobs but, too, those in the hotel, transportation, food, and other industries within our state.
I ask that you please put this important creative and economic matter on your fast track, Governor Branstad.
Signed,
(Your Name)