The Unconditional Surrender statue — or as some call it, the kissing statue — in Tuna Harbor Park drew a lot of attention. A popular Chinese TV series called “Rose Wedding” that pairs 10 couples up who marry on the show, and then follows their honeymoon adventures. California became the location of the wedding in the TV series and San Diego was the final destination. The Chinese production company was delighted to conclude the TV series with the couples posing like the famous sailor and nurse kissing in front of the statue and our beautiful Big Bay. The segment was titled “Kiss of the Century.” The set during the filming was a mass of giggles and these couples tried to get the posing perfect. The tourist cameras were busy snapping. Now, of course, San Diego gets the benefit with 160 million viewers tuning into this show in China. • Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from Japan produced a travel show called Tabi Salada that filmed in San Diego for three days. There were seven crew people and several others used for this project. Locations included Balboa Park and Old Town Historic Park, as well as many other San Diego icon locations. These projects promote San Diego as a tourist destination at no cost to us. Since July, the San Diego Film Commission (SDFC) has worked on seven tourist films from Germany, China, the U.K. and Japan, to name a few. • You may see lots of print shoots on our downtown streets in the weeks to come. Lots of catalogs are filming fashion for the holiday period and San Diego has wonderful, diverse locations. Wintersilks is here and there are also lots of car shoots, which is good to see again. The automotive industry was in such a bad financial state that our print and commercial business really suffered. Thousands of San Diego people work in this industry and depend on print, video and film work for their livelihood. There are more than 5,000 different types of jobs associated with this industry, so when you see a production truck parked downtown, be glad. That means San Diegans are working. — Cathy Anderson is the president and CEO of the San Diego Film Commission, and film commissioner of San Diego. Anderson has earned a national reputation for developing programs to foster the growth of the production industry in the region and for making San Diego “Hollywood South.”