Utah: Life censored
Utah filmmaker Richard Dutcher calls it "a form of economic censorship." The Utah Film Commission calls it just part of the process of getting a movie made in the state.It - as reported over the weekend - is the Utah Motion Picture Advisory Committee, the state agency that decides which film productions will get a cut of the state's incentive money to shoot here. And part of that decision-making process is reading the script, looking for ''inappropriate content or content that portrays Utah or Utahns in a negative way."
Three movies failed to get incentive money for "excessive nudity and violence," according to Marshall Moore, director of the Utah Film Commission. The three films still shot in Utah.
But a First Amendment lawyer with the MPAA says laws like this - Texas has one, barring state money to any movie that disparages the Lone Star State (the law came about after some Texans were depicted as racist in the basketball movie "Glory Road") - may be unconstitutional.
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