The DeKalb Entertainment Commission‘s job is to build business relationships with Georgia’s always increasing leisure business, together with movie, tv, music and digital media.

They join productions to native companies that may present help providers, in addition to get native creatives concerned within the business.

Shelbia Jackson is director of the DeKalb Entertainment Commission, and he or she joined WABE’s All Things Considered to speak about how the county helped the business get through the strike.

She stated many individuals and companies needed to pivot, however there was additionally nonetheless loads of commercials and actuality tv enterprise coming in.

According to Jackson, DeKalb has turn into prime actual property for the leisure business, with ten sound levels, many manufacturing websites, in addition to music venues. 

Christopher Alston contributed to this report.