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House endorses filmmaker to top Film Office position
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Posted on Mar 26 2006
The House of Representatives has endorsed a Hollywood-trained sound effect editor to the top management position of the yet-to-be created Northern Mariana Islands Film Office.
The House adopted last week a resolution calling for the formation of the NMI Film Office pursuant to a 2002 law and recommending Leonard “Butch” Wolf for the manager position.
Public Law 13-9 created the Film Office within the Marianas Visitors Authority and sought to develop a film industry in the Commonwealth. Specifically, the Film Office was tasked to promote the use of local locations for media production and to assist production outfits in the film permitting process.
House Resolution 15-32 said that the Film Office manager position should be filled and it recommended Wolf for the post.
Wolf, a long-time resident of the Commonwealth, has extensive experience as a foley or sound editor. He has worked on numerous Hollywood movies, including “The Replacements,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Speed 2: Cruise Control,” “Absolute Power,” “Eraser,” “Up Close and Personal,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “Unforgiven,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “The Naked Gun,” “Die Hard 2,” “The Hunt for Red October,” and “Tequila Sunrise.”
The resolution also noted that Wolf, through Pacific Rim Academy and Northern Marianas College, “has actively pursued and implemented for the CNMI a complete training and educational facility for our residents in the film and TV industry.”
“In the past, film and TV jobs were mainly available to outside hiring when filming was done in the CNMI, and Butch Wolf has changed that scenario by training and assisting in the placing of local residents in the film and TV industry,” the resolution said. (Agnes E. Donato)
