Bright Lights, Big Sin City
CineVegas' L. Mimosa Jones is looking to create a Cannes-like event in the Nevada desert
By Jennifer M. Wood
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/festivals/article/bright_lights_big_sin_city_2780/
In just three short years, L. Mimosa Jones transformed
the Entertainment Development Corporation (EDC) of Las Vegas
from a start-up nonprofit to a thriving film enterprise, bringing
an additional $120 million in film production revenues to
Las Vegas. In 2001, the EDC acquired the CineVegas International
Film Festival, which is getting a facelift for 2002, and hopefully
establishing itself as a preeminent marketplace.