NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Mayor John Cooper signed an ordinance into regulation Monday that creates the Nashville Music, Film, and Entertainment Commission in a push to convey extra leisure tasks to the town.

“It’s going to promote Nashville’s entertainment industry; it’s going to help recruit more opportunities to Nashville that will create jobs,” Cooper mentioned.

Metro Councilwoman Joy Styles, the ordinance’s sponsor, instructed reporters Monday she first observed “gaps” within the leisure business when she moved to Nashville as a rustic singer.

“When I finally decided I was going to run, one of the first things I wanted to do was address how our entertainment industry dealt with creatives across the board, not just music, but film, television, theatre, dance; all these industries we use, they didn’t have a unifying force,” Styles mentioned.

The Nashville Music, Film, and Entertainment Commission will probably be made up of 15 members tasked with selling and advertising and marketing Nashville as a great place to shoot films and tv reveals and host music festivals and performances, amongst different leisure occasions.

In addition, the fee can even have an inside committee devoted to rising variety within the leisure business.

Screenwriter, producer, and actor, Mark Brown, instructed News 2 this fee is not going to solely profit the business, but additionally the town’s economic system. According to Brown, one season of a tv present creates not less than 200 jobs over a two to 3 12 months interval.

“The gold standard is ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’” Brown mentioned. “They shot in Albuquerque for 16 years. From the Mayor’s office to Metro Council, all the way down. We would all be really happy if a business came in and said, ‘Hey, we’re coming to Nashville for the next 16 years and we’ll have 200 jobs at a minimum during that time.’ That’s exactly what a television show can do for the local economy.”

Brown additionally mentioned he sees the profit in combining the leisure industries into one fee so creatives can assist with every others’ tasks and share assets.

“You can’t just on your own produce a television show,” Brown mentioned. “You’ve going to have actors, you’re going to have to have camera people, you’re going to have to have someone compose a score. When you peel back the onion on television and film production, a lot of the jobs are trade jobs.”

Some of the 15 commissioners will probably be chosen by the mayor and Metro Council, whereas others will probably be appointed by these within the leisure business.

Styles hopes to have the fee fashioned inside the subsequent three months.

Read extra concerning the fee here.