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MORTON – Jeff Kaufman and Candice Cain have signed on the dotted line.
Kaufman, the mayor of Morton, and Cain, president of Long Island-based Gemelli Films, have put their signatures on a contact approved Wednesday by the Morton Village Board that will mean the film company s Baking Up Love movie will be shot entirely in Morton.
Under terms of the contract approved Wednesday, Gemelli Films will receive a $75,000 tourism grant from Morton. But the village will receive a number of guarantees from the film company in return, including possible revenue.
In exchange for giving Gemelli Films the tourism grant, here is some of what the village will receive from the film company:
MORTON A Long Island-based film company is making a movie based in Morton.
Candice Cain and Nelson Smith, the movie s writer/director and director of photography, came to Morton this past weekend to shoot scenes around the village. Transition scenes, is how Cain described them.
Cain and Smith were so impressed with Morton s character and its people during their whirlwind three-day visit that instead of just a few scenes, the entire movie may be shot in the village starting next month. That s our goal. That s our intention, said Morton Mayor Jeff Kaufman, who hopes to have a contract in place with Gemelli Films this week.
MORTON It didn t take long for Craig Hilliard to realize he isn t the retiring type.
Ten months after retiring as the Morton police chief, Hilliard is on the cusp of returning to public service. He s one of three candidates for three open seats on the Morton Village Board in Tuesday s election. While I was working, I toyed with the idea of running for the Village Board after I retired, Hilliard said. Then I retired, and it came down to a decision of do I want to run for the board, or am I done with public service? I decided in November that I wanted to be involved in the village for at least the next four years. I had no reason to believe at the time that any of the incumbents weren t going to run for re-election, so I was prepared to have opposition.