Initiative, thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Could the bluegrass become the new Tinsel Town?

A new state of the art film and production studio located in Lexington along with the state's film and TV Tax incentive, could give Kentucky its shot at the big time.

So we're trying to bring L.A. to Lexington, or in other words, we're trying to bring L.A.X.

to L.A.X.

or Misty Wrigley, who is the owner of Flex Studios and Wrigley Media Group.

She was the producer of this courtroom show called Relative Justice.

And they couldn't find a space big enough to to do the show and build the set.

So they they figured this.

They took over this.

It was abandoned for ten years.

It's a movie theater that was sitting for ten years.

And she, you know, put in her money and rehabbed it and build built out a third of this facility and they did two seasons of this show, COVID kind of put that show on hold.

And a year later, they decided to build out the rest of the facility, which is now 52,000 square feet.

We have three stages.

We have almost 30 offices.

It's very versatile.

It was actually designed to actually not only build sets in, but also be a set.

So our reception area can be the entrance of any corporate building in New York City.

And the crew that's in here right now has turned some of our offices into, you know, cop shops.

You know, this is a courtroom.

They built a morgue the other day, you know, a jail cell.

There was a feature here that turned this whole place into a hospital.

So it's very versatile.

But the stages themselves, they're they're suited for game show is their suit suited for talk shows and stuff like ridiculousness would be an ideal type sized show that would be filmed on like, these type of stages.

It's it's kind of like one stop shop here.

You can you can get anything at LAX.

I mean, the great thing about Lexington and is that it's very easy to film here.

Everyone's really agreeable and amenable and the people are great and they they encourage film and they love just to be around the production.

Whereas L.A. has done it so long, they're jaded and they're just not interested in, you know, production vehicles in front of their house like studios.

It's going to be great for Lexington, it's going to be great for the state because it brings jobs.

It brings, you know, enthusiasm.

It attracts other productions to come to Louisville or shoot in other areas of the state.

And it's all just kind of will feed off of each other eventually.

So in five years, I'm hoping, you know, this whole state is just busy with production and then all that all that money spent is just goes back into the community.

So the incentive program is is designed to attract, you know, big budget Hollywood type productions to states like Kentucky and Kentucky gives them 30% of what they spend that qualifies for this incentive.

You know, they give it back to the production.

So it helps the production actually spend more money in the state or justify coming here because it helps reduce the overall cost.

Another big driving force that we're interested in is educating college kids that are interested in getting into the film business and being almost like a like at a next level kind of training course so that, you know, we're creating programs so that they can get college like fast track certificates, you know, in production.

Like all the productions that I bring in here, I'm always encouraging these productions to let interns come in and shadow and just get hands on experience so that hopefully will build enthusiasm.

So by bringing productions here, we're just creating more opportunity for these people to stick around, get experience working on in L.A. Based production that's filming here because and then going out to L.A. with some serious experience under your belt and, you know, maybe you stick around for two or three years or you might just decide you want to stay here.

The Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program through the Kentucky Department of Economic Development provides up to $75 million in tax credits for film and television projects.

So far this year, it's approved almost 39 million in tax credits for productions in the state.