Since the creation of Cancun in the 1970s, Mexico’s main tourist destination has experienced several stages of luxury and glamor that are framed by the visits of Arab princes, magnates from around the world, international artists and top models who leave their mark. of his passage through the Mexican Caribbean.
The natural beauties, the tourist infrastructure and the air connectivity are some of the factors that have caused the state’s tourist destinations to become attractive to producers of all kinds of programs, fashion shows, series, movies and even soap operas.
Although a Quintana Roo Film Commission operated in the early 2000s, under the direction of Carlos Nakasone, with changes in administration and movements within the Ministry of Tourism itself, it was forgotten until it disappeared.
Currently, among the initiatives that the Congress of Quintana Roo has pending review is the Filming and Audiovisual Production Law, which aims to establish a regulatory framework that simplifies the legal and administrative processes necessary to carry out audiovisual productions.
Among the things that this law promotes, in addition to being able to have regulations that allow attracting investments in this area, regulate procedures, payments, the hiring of local talents and being able to promote the state through these productions.
And Cancún has been the scene of great events, just remember that from 2009 to 2013 top models such as Alessandra Ambrosio, Irina Shayk, Carmen Kass paraded at Cancún Moda Nextel.
One of the big stars who visited Cancun in 2019 was Harry Styles, former member of the band One Direction. The singer and his entire production team recorded the video for “Lights Up” in a home in the Lombardo Toledano neighborhood, a popular area. from Cancun.
In February of last year Angelina Jolie and her son Pax Thien arrived at the Cancun airport and from there they moved to the community of Santa Clara, where a group of Mayan women have a project to protect melipona beecheii bees.
Although initially it was thought that it was a vacation, it was finally revealed that Angelina Jolie is godmother of the Women For Bees project, run by UNESCO and Guerlain, and her trip was to live with Mayan women who graduated from a course to protect the melipona bee.
