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Homewood signs non-funded Film Birmingham partnership to coordinate regional film activity
Summary
The council approved a Film Birmingham partnership agreement that does not require city funding but aims to coordinate film production across the Birmingham area to make facilities and locations available to productions.
The Homewood City Council approved a Film Birmingham partnership agreement April 28 that the mayor and staff said requires no city funding and is intended to coordinate regional film activity and make local facilities available to productions.
City Manager Adams described the agreement as a way for the city to participate in a regional partnership without taking on the administrative burden of running film production logistics. "It allows a partnership across the Birmingham area that people could come in, use facilities everywhere, and is coordinated by somebody outside of us," Adams told the council. He added that managing film productions can be labor intensive and that the partnership reduces that local workload.
Councilors approved the agreement 11-0 (Resolution 25-66). Staff said the partnership is meant to make it easier for productions to find locations across participating jurisdictions and that reimbursement models exist to cover some expenses when productions pay for services.
The council also recorded a separate routine item declaring no objection to an ABC retail beer and table wine license for Brookwood Shell; police and fire had reviewed the application and registered no objection. That action passed without opposition.
