Tiguex Productions LLC

STATE & LOCAL BUSINESS DOWNFALLS
Unite New Mexico! Car shows are a New Mexico tradition and custom that started before most car owners were born. That doesn’t seem to matter to most participants. New Mexico Car Shows attract all walks of life making them a multi-generational event that brings families and communities together. A low rider car expresses its art form through highly detailed paint jobs and chrome so shiny it burns the naked eye. This type of art show is backed by a great cause and almost every corner Wal-Mart jumped on board to host car shows in their efforts to raise money for New Mexico Non-Profit organizations in Albuquerque last year.
Tiguex Productions LLC is a New Mexico based film Production Company owned by Tito Chavez a Chicano filmmaker from the South Valley. The main objective of Tiguex Productions LLC is to generate film funding, attract and accommodate out-of-state film productions and solidify proper distribution for New Mexico Cast and Crew film projects in New Mexico. With no film distribution in the State of New Mexico it creates non employment challenges for Film Producers from New Mexico.
One of Tiguex Productions ventures is promoting car shows to spawn funds for New Mexico film productions and as in the past to initiate funding for New Mexico non-profit organizations. NM Voices For Children, Juvenile Detention Center, Ballut Abyad Shriners, La Plazita Institute Gang Intervention and Casa de Amigas to name a few benefited from Tiguex Productions events in 2009.
Lowrider Magazine is owned by Source Interlink Media in California. Every year the magazine has a national Car Show tour that showcases the best cars in the nation. This tour has not recently stopped in New Mexico until Tiguex offered the idea to the magazine last year. The estimated gross profit of a car show of this magnitude $150,000 with 5,000 in attendance.
Tiguex had originally planned to promote the Lowrider magazine tour in October 2009 with Expo New Mexico as the venue, however unforeseen clean up costs for the State Fair put the show over budget for that year. Tiguex postponed the show to 2010. In spite of this shortfall Tiguex continued to work with Expo New Mexico for an October 2010 event but the process has been a tedious wearisome circle of unanswered questions by the venue and has yet to be successful in booking the event with the committee at Expo New Mexico.
While negotiating the venue for a 2010 event Lowrider Magazine has announced that a promoter not from New Mexico has sanctioned ten city stops including Albuquerque. This is a prime example of government and local business downfalls due to non-communication. With our State $600-million-plus budget shortfall it would only make sense to keep the revenue generated from a show here in the New Mexico Economy. I assume that would be the main interests of New Mexico residents.
Tiguex Productions has worked tirelessly on a partnership with Lowrider Magazine and the local community to lose it to an outside source. Out of state promoters recognize the lack of communication and alliances within our government and local businesses and profit on our New Mexico resident’s behalf. Having a New Mexico business like Tiguex Productions or any New Mexico business promoting this Lowrider Magazine event all profits and jobs would have stayed here in New Mexico. It is imperative to our state economy to keep New Mexico businesses flourishing. We allow out-of state promoters and producers to profit from New Mexico customs and traditions and enable the promoter to spend profits in the promoters’ home state due to non or mis-communication between government and local businesses. The State of New Mexico has to support local business and local film productions by hindering outside dealings from coming in to The Land of Enchantment to do work New Mexico businesses are rightly equipped to execute. I am asking all elected officials within the State of New Mexico and Governor Richardson’s Administration for assistance in addressing and resolving these issues.
Tito Chavez
Tiguex Productions LLC