For Makers Of Waco, No Film Incentives From Texas

Texas’ film commissioner has denied “as much as 17% in film incentives” to the makers of a movie about the Branch Davidian compound standoff, basing “his veto on a little-known provision in Texas’ film-incentive legislation known as the content clause, which states that anything that portrays the state in a negative or embarrassing light can be denied a government grant.” The filmmakers say the rejection “amounts to censorship and a snuffing of artistic freedom.”