A benefit concert for the Bring Hollywood Home Foundation – a two-year-old non-profit effort to bring industry jobs back to Hollywood – will be held Monday evening, 6:30, at Candelas/Leonardos La Brea, 831 S. La Brea Ave., Hollywood.
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From left, Andre Champagne, cinematographer, Sharon Hardee Jimenez, president, “Bring Hollywood Home,” Ross Hawkins, producer-director
Featured performers for the one-night-only benefit include folk singer Tyler Lyle, American Bloomers, the union of three singer/songwriters, Jaimie Wyatt, Jane and Jonathen Sheldon, the Glen Johnson Band, playing swing and early jazz, and Martin Gulgui and his All-Star Band.
Ms. Hardee Jimenez, founder/ executive director of Bring Hollywood Home, says the concert is part of a concentrated effort to fight for jobs that were once the hallmark of Southern California.
“Motion picture and television production have fueled our economy for more than a century,” she stated.
Ms. Hardee Jimenez is a Los Angeles-based publicist and founder of Icon Imaging PR. She is a producer of “Gerrymandering,” the documentary film used to help pass independent redistricting reform in California.
Regarding her efforts with 501 (c) 4 group, she said that “fundraising is vital to building a grassroots leadership to support the voices of independent artists and ancillary artists who want to make California competitive again in production and post-production markets.
“If all of the production and post- production jobs that have been outsourced to other states and countries through runaway production the last 15 years had stayed in California, we wouldn't have a budget deficit according to economic research released when we started the Bring Hollywood Home Foundation in 2010.”
Ms .Hardee Jimenez recalled that former Gov. Schwarzenegger was unable to get the Legislature to make the state competitive in film and television production. After he retired as governor, Schwarzenegger joined Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis at a new motion picture studio in Bosnia to film “The Expendables -2,” which will be released next month. She also pointed to the History Channel's acclaimed mini-series, “The Hatfields and the McCoys,” starring Kevin Costner ,that was made in Romania.
Ms. Hardee Jimenez’s goal for Bring Hollywood Home is to create awareness of the result of loss of jobs in the film and television industry in California. For more information on Bring Hollywood Home, she may be contacted at SharonHardeeJimenez@gmail.com or 310.409.3306.
