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Film Production spending in NC hits a 5-year high

 
 
 
RALEIGH -- Spending on film and television projects in the state hit a five-year high in 2019. A press release from the Department of Commerce reports more than $167 million in direct in-state spending on film and television projects in 2019. That figure includes three films which spent over $56 million and created over 3200 job opportunities that received North Carolina Film and Entertainment Grants. Those productions included a continuation of the “Halloween” horror movie franchise “Halloween Kills” which filmed in the Wilmington area and will debut in the fall and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” about the televangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker that filmed in Charlotte. The grantees receive no up-front money and have to meet direct in-state spending requirements to receive grant funds.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.