PROPOSITION L
As reported on indieWIRE today: “A battle has been raging in San Francisco over Proposition L, a measure on the ballot today that could give more than $10 million in city funds to a new non-profit group aimed at bolstering local single-screen movie theaters. If passed… the proposition would take 15 percent of the money raised by a local hotel tax, about $10.5 million a year, and give it to Save Our Theaters, a new private, non-profit group, for the purposes of supporting a number of single-screen theaters and also promoting local filmmaking.”
So why are so many San Francisco-based arts groups, actors and filmmakers against it?
According to the San Francisco Film Society Web site: “Unfortunately, Proposition L is a simplistic scheme that would put millions of taxpayer dollars in the hands of a group that has no staff, no office and no record of operating theaters. Save Our Theaters represents neither the local film community nor the neighborhoods affected by theater closures. Their campaign has already done a disservice by spreading the misinformation that the Castro Theatre and the Balboa Theatre are in imminent danger of closing, which is not true. The passage of Proposition L can only result in an embarassing fiasco.”
