Beyond her primary role as the State of Maryland’s Assistant Secretary for Tourism, Film & The Arts, Hannah Byron has been an eyewitness to the state’s greatest decades of film production.
Starting with John Waters, “The Wire”, and now coordinating such shows as HBO’s “Veep” and Netflix’s soon to be out “House of Cards,” Byron knows first hand what Hollywood can do for the state’s economy.
With the legislature now in session, Byron is the lead advocate of a bill to create $25 million in tax credits for the film industry in fiscal 2014. In a recent Spy interview, she made the case for passage as well as the role incentives play to attract big time shows as well as small producers to the Eastern Shore as well as Baltimore.
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