Bringing Hollywood to Jalisco is the goal of film producer/director Fernando Lebrija, who is constructing a 1,000-hectare film studio just 10 minutes from the Zapopan Basilica.
Lebrija is also pressing the state government to pony up more than the three million pesos annually parceled out to film projects by the Jalisco Secretariat of Culture. He says that amount isn’t nearly enough to encourage local film-makers or draw others here to make their movies. He also thinks the state should form a film commission to offer incentives to production companies.
Lebrija is presently working on “Coqueteando con la Muerte,” a series for Televisa, which should air in late 2010, and has a film in the planning stages to be set in Puerto Vallarta. He was recently feted at the city’s Third Week of Film in Video 2009 for his film “Amar a Morir,” which won Best Jalisco Feature Film.
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