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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

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ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/26/06

HB 242

SHORT TITLE International Digital Filmmaking Festival

SB

ANALYST Earnest

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY06

FY07

$300.0

Non-Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Economic Development Department (EDD)

Higher Education Department (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

HB242 appropriates $300,000 from the general fund for expenditure in FY06 and FY07 to the

Economic Development Department to contract for services to conduct an international digital

filmmaking festival as part of the Albuquerque tri-centennial that will serve to educate trainees

of the state Film Technicians Training Program and students of the Media Arts Program at the

University of New Mexico (UNM).

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $300 thousand ($300,000) contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense

to the general fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY07

shall revert to the general fund.

This appropriation is tied to an event in conjunction with Albuquerque’s tri-centennial celebra-

tion and, as such, is determined to be non-recurring.

House Bill 242 – Page 2

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

According to HED, the Film Technicians Training Program is implemented by the Film Office

of the New Mexico Economic Development Department in collaboration with the International

Alliance of Theater and State Employees (IATSE) Local 480 and the Studio Mechanics Union.

Four higher education institutions have film technician training programs: Albuquerque Techni-

cal Vocational Institute (TVI), New Mexico State University (NMSU), Eastern New Mexico

University-Roswell (ENMU-Roswell), and Santa Fe Community College (SFCC).

The Department of Media Arts at UNM is dedicated to the study and practice of film and video

as art. It offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Arts.

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

There are no performance measures that track the success of the film technicians training pro-

gram. HED suggests the following measure: “the number of New Mexico students participating

in the State Film Technicians Training Program who receive education through the International

Digital Filmmaking Festival. These students could also be tracked to determine if they find em-

ployment within the film industry in New Mexico upon graduation.”

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

HED indicates that the Film Office of the Economic Development Department would adminis-

ter the International Digital Filmmaking Festival. This would involve finding a contractor to

conduct the festival, finding venues in Albuquerque and attracting participants, especially stu-

dents in the State Film Technicians Training Program and those from the Media Arts Program at

the University of New Mexico.

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