The bill mentioned that the Northern Mariana Islands offer "outstanding and unique human and natural resources for the development of a strong motion picture, film, video and media industry."
First, it should attract foreign companies to produce movies in the Commonwealth through publicity, participation of the Film Manager and other officers in international cinema trade shows, and the improvement of the infrastructures in the islands.
"[5] In 2000, Butch Wolf, a professional American sound effect editor who lived in Saipan, cooperated with the college to create the Pacific Rim Academy, aimed at teaching local students the fundamentals of film-making.
[6] In 2001, the Pacific Rim Academy ended its partnership with the Northern Marianas College and continued as a private for-profit company under the name Talk Story Studios, which specialized in producing commercials.
[7] Galvin Deleon Guerrero, a teacher at Northern Marianas College and the principal of Saipan's Mount Carmel School, continued to work with students independently of Talk Story Studio.
In 2017, he directed We Drank Our Tears: Francisco Babauta’s Story, a short movie about a family of islanders who lived on a cave to escape the Japanese during World War II.
[9] In 2019, two former female students of Guerrero, Jenikah Elayda and Cesiah Maclang, were honored at the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska for their documentary Starting Over Again about the aftermath of Typhoon Yutu.