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Stefanie Coyote - Executive Director
Kristin Treiber - Deputy Director
Laurel Barsotti - Office Manager
Phone: 415.554.6241
Fax: 415.554.6503
San Francisco Film Commission
City Hall, Room 473
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
San Francisco, CA 94102
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I can't even begin to fathom what is going through their heads when they won't support the troops. This is a disgrace. If you would like to contact them:SAN FRANCISCO, Sep. 24, 2007 (KGO) - New York said "yes," but we said "no." Why were the U.S. Marines denied permission to film a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco?
San Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy over how city leaders treat the U.S. military. This time, it involves an elite group of Marines who wanted to film a recruitment commercial in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11.
The tension has been building in the two weeks since the city turned away members of the Silent Drill Platoon, and it boiled over Monday afternoon at a meeting of the San Francisco Film Commission.
The U.S. Marine Silent Drill Platoon performed Monday morning in New York's Times Square. They filmed part of a recruitment commercial through the start of the morning rush hour -- something they could not do in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11.
"It's insulting, it's demeaning. This woman is going to insult these young heroes by just arbitrarily saying, 'no, you're not going to film any Marines on California Street," said Captain Greg Corrales of the SFPD Traffic Bureau.
Captain Greg Corrales commands the police traffic bureau that works with crews shooting commercials, TV shows and movies in the city. He's also a Marine veteran and his son is serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.
He says Film Commission Executive Director Stefanie Coyote would only allow the Marine's production crew to film on California Street if there were no Marines in the picture. They wound up filming the empty street and will have to superimpose the Marines later.
"Ms. Coyote's politics blinded her to her duty as the director of the Film Commission and as a responsible citizen," said Captain Corrales.
We asked Stefanie Coyote why they're not allowing the Marines to shoot on California Street. She wouldn't answer our questions.
At today's Film Commission meeting, she said she wouldn
Stefanie Coyote - Executive Director
Kristin Treiber - Deputy Director
Laurel Barsotti - Office Manager
Phone: 415.554.6241
Fax: 415.554.6503
San Francisco Film Commission
City Hall, Room 473
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
San Francisco, CA 94102
or electronically:
FILL OUT THIS FORM