Palm Beach County Film and TV Commission to have new director

Palm Seaside County’s film and television business, which has introduced in much more than $1 billion in local earnings around the previous five yrs, will soon have a new director major the way.

Chuck Elderd, who has served as Palm Seaside County’s movie and television commissioner because 1989, is stepping down in August immediately after more than than 30 many years with the county. Deputy Commissioner Michelle Hillery is slated to be successful Elderd atop the office.

The Palm Beach front County Film and Tv Commission is dependable for supporting entice film output to the location, which include flicks, Television, new music films and commercials.

Very last calendar year, there had been 64 Television reveals, 36 commercials, 10 new music movies and five films filmed in Palm Seaside County, encouraging draw in additional than $203 million in community revenue.

Hillery, who’s invested the past 26 a long time as deputy commissioner, obtained preliminary acceptance on Wednesday from Palm Beach front County’s Movie and Tv Board of Directors to develop into the new commissioner. The board elected not to open up the place up to outdoors candidates. Hillery’s possible salary continue to hasn’t been finalized.

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Hillery would still will need remaining approval prior to the conclusion is finalized.

Also, the board preliminarily authorized supplying Elderd a just one-12 months consulting agreement with the fee that would spend him $24,000.

Prior to the pandemic, Palm Seashore County generated far more than $238 million in 2019, marking a solitary-year most effective.

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Some projects by means of the decades consist of “Baywatch” in 2017, which had scenes shot in Boca Raton, as properly as other sections of South Florida. Other movies that experienced portions of their motion pictures filmed in Palm Beach County incorporate “Bad Boys II” and “Donnie Brasco.”

The fee also helps oversee its individual Tv set channel, The Palm Beach locations Tv set, which is employed as a tourism channel, highlighting “all of the thrilling, family members-welcoming, iconic and minimal-acknowledged choices.”