Okay, well, welcome back.

We're going to start our work session now, and we'll start with item number one, the annual updates for economic development partners, film Los Cruises and Miss Sea Valley Economic Development Alliance.

This year we're gonna split it up between two different work sessions.

So today we're gonna hear Film Las Cruces and Mavita, and then next work session, we're gonna hear downtown Las Cruces partnership and the farmers market.

Um before I turn it over to Film Moscrucis, I do just want to say you are all invited to the film tour launch party tonight at 5 30 at the Rio Gran Theater.

This has been a really fun project with Visit Las Cruces' Film Las Cruces in the city.

So come have fun hear about film tourism.

And with that, I will turn it over to Andrew.

Hello, Mr.

Mayor, uh Chair, Counselors.

My name is Andrew Hada.

I'm the film liaison here at Film Las Cruces.

And here is our presentation.

So we've added a couple more detailed slides just because we do know there's uh new members, so we wanted to make sure you guys are uh up to date.

So this is just kind of informative.

Uh, Film Las Cruces, we are the film office for Las Cruces, Doniana County, Mesia, and the City of Anthony.

We offer streamlined liaison services for film, television uh productions for those areas, and our film liaisons are part of the association of film commissioners international, which is AFCI, which is just kind of the governing board of a lot of different uh film commissioners, and it is again international.

What do we do?

Well, we offer as a lot of film offices offer, we offer permits for Doniana County, Mesia, uh, Dona County, Sunland Park, and La City of Las Cruces.

We do location packages and location scouts.

Some of this stuff I will talk in more detail as we get to them, but just kind of giving you an overview.

Location packages and location scouts are what we use to make uh to get productions interested in coming to Las Cruces.

Once they get here, they'll try to use our crew, talent, vendor, and location database.

And then, of course, once they get here, we assist them when they uh when they get here until they leave.

And then we are also marketing to lure decision makers and productions.

We have uh three member staff.

It is myself, which is a film liaison, Elijah Viapando, who is our associate film liaison, and Amara Barden, who is our operations coordinator.

We are a nonprofit and we're run by a board of of directors, including State Senator Jeff Steinborn, who is our president, Pepper Gallegos, who's our vice president, Christopher Stanley, who's our treasurer, Denise LaFranz, Unjaga, who is our secretary, Matt Burns, Stephen Osborne, Lynnwood Spinks, Natalie Schreander, Marilyn Brindis, Ross Marks, Loris Allen, and Jerry Ponzeca.

And they make up different uh parts of the film, whether it's teaching at DACC and NMSU or just part of being in the industry.

Okay, now to get into some of the numbers, uh, for inquiries.

So again, of a location package is when a production is from out of town or even from here, and they have a script, and they want us, they want to see if they can make it here.

So, one of the first things we do is call the location package where we take that script, we break it up by locations, and then we make them a package.

And it's essentially says, you know, if there's a school in their script, we show them the schools that fit the script because sometimes they're older, sometimes they're newer.

So we want to make sure that we have those schools on there, gas stations, something like that.

So this way, even before they've come to Las Cruces, they know kind of what they're looking at and what they're looking for.

Um, and so last year we sent about 40 of those.

And then for crew and vendor information, that's usually once a production is in town, they start asking for the crew and the vendors.

A lot of times, the productions, almost every time the productions, they don't really want to hire from Albuquerque here for Santa Fe because it's cheaper for them to hire here.

They don't have to pay for hotels, they don't have to pay for per diem.

So we want to make sure that they know what the crew is, the crew size, the crew uh contacts and everything like that.

And the same thing with vendors.

We want to make sure they know who the local vendors are so that when they start reaching out, asking for stuff, they know the point of contacts and everything like that.

We'll talk a little bit more about that, but we also want to make sure the vendors know what it's like to work in film because it is a little bit different.

After we send them the location package, if they are interested, we'll do what's called an in-person location scout.

And that's where we take them to the different locations all over.

Um, again, it's just kind of giving them a sampling so that they know that they can make their film here.

We'll introduce them to the owners, we'll take them around.

If well, a lot of times they use city property, so we'll show them that area just so they can start familiarizing themselves with the locations, and they can even start making those deals about when they want to uh rent them.

Last year we did 13 productions all together.

Uh, that is since about last July, we've had a production in town every single month in one way or another, whether it was filming, pre-production, or post-production, and that's kind of what that number reflects.

So now we're doing the economic impact.

So for worker days, the baseline is 1,000.

Last year we had 13,722.

For production days, we've broken this up.

Production days are the days of actual production.

We used to count uh post and pre.

The reason we've kind of broken it up is because a lot of times when they're here for post-production or where they're here for pre-production or before they leave in post-production, it's not as many people.

Usually it's one or two, maybe the producer, maybe a location manager, but for the most part, it's just those people.

And then for the actual production days, that's when they bring the crew and everything.

So we just want to give you as accurate a number.