LANSING – The Michigan Film Office announced the feature film Fractured has been approved for a $31,613 film incentive from the state. The film is a psychological thriller shooting in metro Detroit and directed by Michigan filmmaker Lance Kawas.
Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, The Expendables) and Jake Busey (Starship Troopers, Home Fries) have signed on to play the leads in the project.
?We have a vibrant indigenous film community here in Michigan and this is terrific opportunity to support one of our talented Michigan filmmakers,? said Carrie Jones, director of the Michigan Film Office. ?This project will have an all-Michigan crew making it a great fit for the film incentives.?
Kawas has written, directed and produced a number of films in Michigan including Restitution, Silent Scream filmed in northern Michigan and Street Boss, which won Best Feature Film at the 2009 Detroit Windsor International Film Festival. Fractured follows the twists and turns of May and her relationship with her psychiatrist Dr. Jason Ballard as she struggles to remember the events of a fateful night.
The project was awarded an incentive of $31,613 on $109,141 of projected in-state expenditures. The project is expected to hire 45 Michigan workers with a full time equivalent of one job.
To date in 2012, nine projects have been awarded a total of $16,278,966 on $55,494,595 of approved production expenditures for the year. These projects are expected to create 895 Michigan hires with a full time equivalent of 239 jobs.
