Palm Springs Seeks More Film Production

The Palm Springs city council has approved a plan to bring more film production to the city.

In a unanimous vote, the city council agreed to suspend film permit and location fees for one year hoping to bring Hollywood to the desert.

Last year, the city collected only about $15,000 in film permit fees.

Councilman Paul Lewin who proposed the idea of suspending the fees believes the permit fees are a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of thousand of dollars that can be injected into the local economy by production companies that choose Palm Springs for location shoots.

The city is expected to work closely with the Inland Empire Film Office to market Palm Springs as a film- friendly city.