TIJUANA, BC.- The elected governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, Held a meeting in Tijuana with the icon of American cinema, Mel Gibson with the intention of raising various views on the importance of the creative industries in the region.
For the first woman to rule the state of Baja California in its history, harnessing the talent of the state, as well as detonating the region as a space conducive to local, national and international creativity are a strategy viable for economic strengthening, which becomes especially necessary after the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The meeting addressed issues such as the economic spills resulting from filming, job creation, and consumption that is significantly strengthened in restaurants and hotels, as it also strengthens tourism activity.
Film industry, great opportunity for BC
Marina del Pilar pointed out that, in particular, the film industry represents a great opportunity for the entity, as not only are there outstanding professionals in the field, but the entity has a privileged geographical location in the be close to the world cinema capital: Los Angeles.
In addition to this, our state has several climates and ecosystems that can, along with our cities, be useful for producers, who must find the necessary facilities to undertake their projects in our state, generating schemes of mutual strengthening as it is promoted in the state in addition to which they can decrease production costs.
It should be noted that the Governor-elect considered that Baja California has higher education institutions that graduate professionals and film specialists, who require both opportunities to participate in international productions and to undertake their own projects, so that reaffirmed the commitments he made during the election campaign.
The meeting with Gibson served to reaffirm some ideas and generate new ones, which will be applied in the real environment in the coming years, as the orange economies based on the creative industries they are certainly an engine to detonate development in the state, especially if worked out by the hand of new generations of creators.