New York's Big Picture
June 18 2007
Assessing New York's Position in Film, Television and Commercial Production
The arts and entertainment industries are a leading component of the New York State economy, generating employment of more than 135,000 workers and annual revenues of over $38 billion, about five percent of all private sector revenues. Increasingly these sectors of the creative economy are seen as key to economic revitalization upstate.
Cornell University researchers have joined with industry leaders and other experts to build development strategies by linking the arts and the creative process to economic activities from rural regions and mid-sized upstate cities to the concentrated global hub of media, arts and entertainment in the Big Apple.
Forums underwritten by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Cornell University ILR will present the public release of a two-year study of the film industry in the state, New York's Big Picture: Assessing New York’s Position in Film, Television and Commercial Production. Authors and sponsors of the study will discuss the findings and explore strategies for strengthening the arts and entertainment sectors throughout the state.
Date and location:
June 18, 2007
Time: TBD
Cornell University ILR in New York City
16 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016-4328
Contact: Opal Bablington, (212) 340-2866, e-mail odb2@cornell.edu
Committee members participating in the public release:
- Lois Gray, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University ILR
- Lou Jean Fleron, Director, Workforce Industry and Economic Development, Cornell University
- Maria Figueroa, Director, Labor and Industry Research, Cornell University ILR
- Susan Christopherson, Professor, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
- Ron Seeber, Professor and Vice Provost for Land Grant Affairs, Cornell University
- James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
- Patricia Kaufman, New York State Film Commissioner
- John Ford President, Studio Mechanics Local 52, IATSE
- Tim Clark Director, Buffalo Niagara Film Commission
