Kimberly LeBlanc
Kimberly LeBlanc is proud to serve as the City of San Antonio’s Film & Music Commissioner, where she works closely with creative industry professionals and community leaders to foster growth in San Antonio’s local film community and promote San Antonio as a competitive destination for film, television, commercial and digital media production. As a part of the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture, the San Antonio Film Commission supports projects filming in San Antonio with a wide range of resources including: location services, turnkey film permitting, government liaising, crew and vendor production directories, casting calls, grants to individual artists and organizations, including film festivals and the Supplemental San Antonio Film Incentive Program (SSAI).
Prior to joining the San Antonio Film Commission, Kimberly was a senior staff member at the Texas Film Commission (in the Office of the Governor’s Economic Development & Tourism Division) for 12+ years, where she scouted more than 1,200 potential filming locations, administrated the state’s Film Friendly Texas program and successfully managed the varying needs of more than 2,000 film, TV, commercial and digital media projects filming in Texas.
Prior to joining the Texas Film Commission, Kimberly worked at the Austin Film Society, the Austin Film Festival and as the Assistant to Director Robert Rodriguez at Troublemaker Studios. Kimberly is a proud alumna of Trinity University, where she nerded out about cities (as an Urban Studies major) and helped co-found the Film Studies minor. She is a big fan of road trips, yoga, breakfast tacos, family movie nights, and the Spurs.
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