On Tuesday April 22, 2008 at 300 Douglas Street, between Travis and Fannin, Shreveport Mayor Cedric B. Glover will chart another first!

At 10:00 am Mayor Glover and City Council members will join NU Image/Millennium Film Executive Producer Michael Flannigan in a historic ceremony to break ground for Shreveport’s first movie studio, the Millennium-Ledbetter Film Studio.

Located in the historic Ledbetter Heights community, named to honor of legendary blues great Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, construction will begin with 6.7 acres and eventually expand to a 20 acre full service studio, complete with three sound stages, production offices, a mill and a prop house. Once completed the Shreveport studio will accommodate three to six productions at any given time and employ as many as 100 to 500 production personnel.

“I’m ecstatic about this innovative public-private partnership and commend council members for seeing the value of this project and supporting it,” says Mayor Glover. “I applaud Nu Image/Millennium Films for having the vision to invest in the growth and future of this area’s film industry and infrastructure.”

“As we build our studio we expect the skilled local workforce to increase, more production resources to become available and the number of films to increase. Everyone wins; the local economy, the people and the studios,” says Nu Image/Millennium Film’s President of Production, Boaz Davidson.

Groundbreaking Ceremony

10:00 AM

April 22, 2008

300 Douglas Street (between Travis & Fannin)