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Project Film: How the Quad Cities Regional Film Office came to be

By: Kenda Burrows|July 27, 2022
|12 min read
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    “Why would anyone want to film a movie in Rock Island?”

    That’s what Tarah Sipes, Rock Island’s community and economic development manager, asked herself when she first learned of a plan – then known as “Project Film” –  to bring a Quad Cities Film Office to her city.

    “To me it seemed like a…

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