Orlando Sentinel story about movie Snake Island II

Carving a niche in film

Move over, Hollywood, this is Brevard

Producer thinks he has found 'ideal' spot for movies

By Cory Jo Lancaster — Of the Sentinel Staff

MELBOURNE — Filming will start this weekend on a low-budget, teen thriller in south Brevard that its producer hopes will transform the area into the backdrop for a budding film industry.

Snake Island II, a movie about a young boy's revenge on a group of teens who killed his father, will be producer James Ingrassia's second venture. His first, Sunstroke U.S.A., a $500,000 film shot in Melbourne Beach two years ago, has been shown at three film festivals but has not been re-
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ber, will be set on a deserted island in the Indian River, Ingrassia said.

"The plan is, after this movie, to do three to
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"This area — Central Florida — is going to become the new Hollywood."

— producer James Ingrassia

Volonnino works on a tiki Thursday for a movie to be filmed in south Brevard.

Eileen Samelson / Sentinel