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FakeNoose

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Tue Feb 13, 2024, 04:12 PM Feb 2024

Travis Kelce's Debut as a Film Producer Is Also the First Movie Financed by Joe Biden's Green Energy Tax Credits



Variety link: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/travis-kelce-my-dead-friend-zoe-financed-energy-tax-credits-1235908057/

Joe Biden didn’t score an endorsement from Taylor Swift on Super Bowl Sunday, as some had predicted. But her boyfriend Travis Kelce is using the president’s renewable energy tax credits to finance the film “My Dead Friend Zoe.”

The SXSW-bound indie, which stars Natalie Morales, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman and Sonequa Martin-Green, marks Kelce’s first foray into movies, with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end serving as an executive producer. The investors in the low-budget dark comedy, which include Kelce, are the first to take advantage of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act to finance a film. (“My Dead Friend Zoe” cost less than $10 million.)

The Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed in August 2022, marks “the single largest investment in climate and energy in American history, enabling America to tackle the climate crisis, advancing environmental justice, securing America’s position as a world leader in domestic clean energy manufacturing and putting the United States on a pathway to achieving the Biden-Harris Administration’s climate goals, including a net-zero economy by 2050,” according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s web site. “My Dead Friend Zoe” used money generated by green energy entrepreneur Mike Field’s sale of surplus tax credits. (Field is also a producer on the film.)

“Hollywood is risky, right? On a scale of one to 10, Hollywood, it is a 9.5. Especially in terms of independent film,” says “My Dead Friend Zoe” producer Ray Maiello, who runs California-based Radiant Media Studios with Field. “These federal tax credits take the risk down to like a five.”
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Maybe Taylor Swift will be cast in a small role?

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Travis Kelce's Debut as a Film Producer Is Also the First Movie Financed by Joe Biden's Green Energy Tax Credits (Original Post) FakeNoose Feb 2024 OP
Another thing to make the knuckledraggers lose their minds. But might he start to normalize normalcy again? kysrsoze Feb 2024 #1
He shoved his coach. Let's not give him a gold star as a real man here. n/t NorthCountryLib Feb 2024 #2

kysrsoze

(6,175 posts)
1. Another thing to make the knuckledraggers lose their minds. But might he start to normalize normalcy again?
Tue Feb 13, 2024, 05:00 PM
Feb 2024

I love that a football player (typically a profession people associate with meatheads) is doing thoughtful things, and pushing normal stuff like using conservation-derived tax credits to stimulate growth, vaccinations, etc. It's a big 180 from assholes like Tom Brady and Brett Favre.

We need guys like this to show people again that you don't have to be a gun totin', flag-wearing moron to be a man.

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