Economic Development Manager Tarah Sipes says the consultant is Doug Miller, who's been involved in bringing productions to the Quad Cities for 30 years, first helping some Italian film makers make a movie here about Bix Beiderbecke.
"He has experience in the industry of course, and knows people who are interested in the type of scenery and the type of skills and the type of people that the Quad Cities offer to a film production."
A contract with Miller and his firm, Two Rivers and Associates, would depend on receiving a state grant to set up the film office.
"We're approaching this as an economic development opportunity. Folks coming in to film pieces here in the Quad Cities bring a variety of people with them - they need hotel rooms, they need food, they need services from people in our community, and so that's why I'm working on the project."
Sipes says the Quad City Development Group established the Quad City Film Coalition in 1989. It lasted for about 20 years and helped bring millions of dollars worth of productions to the area.
