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

“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 lot of work for very little reward,” she said, before…