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Grant Program “Reels In” South Carolina Filmmakers

Tom Clark

South Carolina’s film industry is nurtured each year through a grant program that then showcases it’s winners at not only some of our state’s film festivals, such as the one held in Beaufort each February, but in many other states as well, helping spread the word about South Carolina.

Mike Switzer interviews Tom Clark, director of the South Carolina Film Commission, the agency that runs the Indie Grants program.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.