Speaker Series -- Hollywood and the Detroit Film Boom -- Sign up full

What does Hollywood have to offer the Motor City? And how does this newfound interest in filming in Michigan support our local film industry?

Model D's Speaker Series will take a look at the burgeoning film industry in Detroit at 5 p.m. Aug. 21 at the College for Creative Studies.

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Speakers will be:

- Erik Tungate, business development manager for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Erik works to
leverage existing incentives and the city's assets to attract the film industry to Detroit;
- Tony Wenson of the
Michigan Film Office, which is working to lure movie makers to the Mitten state.

Networking and registration start at 5 p.m., and the hour-long program starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by more networking time.

The event will be in 
the Wendell W. Anderson, Jr. Auditorium in the Walter B. Ford II Building at the College for Creative Studies in Midtown. For a map and directions, click here.

Free parking is available in the CCS parking structure, which is accessible from Brush Street.










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