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Press Pass: Pandemic halts region's thriving film industry

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The coronavirus has shut down the world with jobs lost and doors shuttered, including the film industry. In recent years in Western New York, we have seen the rise of an industry that many never expected to thrive here—film making.  With the arrival of the pandemic, what happens next?  No one knows, but Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark has some thoughts.

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