Producer Will Packer: Why Hollywood Needs to Demand Change in Production Hub Georgia (Guest Column)

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Producer willpowerpacker writes, 'Future generations have a chance to do something truly dynamic and world-altering with the foundation being laid today. The elections in November will speak volumes about where we want to go as a collective nation”

Unbelievable, horrific, inconceivable … all words my white friends and colleagues have used when speaking to me about the George Floyd video.

Umm, no, who has the energy for doing that all day? Besides, I need that energy to keep overachieving at the highest levels. Speaking of exhausting, as I typed this parts of my home city of Atlanta were burning … again. An unarmed black man, Rayshard Brooks, was killed by a police officer. The mayor fired the officer. The police chief resigned. Fed up and tired, protestors flooded the streets. Weary, fatigued police officers were called in to quell disorder. The cumulative effect of decades of racial conflict and angst is wearing on us all.

I recently put out a social media call to action for hate crime legislation in Georgia. Oh Georgia, that wonderful giver of tax credits. That amazing filming location that makes first class on Delta's LAX to ATL route routinely look like the Soho House elevator while at the same time making Hollywood very uncomfortable because, well, Georgia.

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