Geng Lu began as a film producer with an 800,000 yuan (100,000 U.S. dollars) investment in a film that could also launch the acting careers of his immediate family.

    Geng started as a greenhouse vegetable grower in Balizhuang Village, Yanqing County in the northern suburbs of Beijing. He also owns a factory making doors and windows, which reports annual sales of 5 million yuan (625,000 U.S. dollars).

    Descended from generations of farmers, his big ambition as a young man was making movies.

    "I also wished to become a police officer in my childhood, but this dream never came true," he says.

    But that dream too is reflected in his first production, "I'm ACop", which has begun filming in Yanqing, a county with well-known scenic attractions, such as the Badaling Great Wall and the Longqingxia Gorge.

    "I'm A Cop" tells the humorous story of Li Youzhi, a senior high school student born into a police family, who is eager to become a police officer and is always ready to help others for a just cause.

    Major roles are being played by professionals and Geng's family, including his son, daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter, as well as fellow villagers.

    The film aims to encourage young men to help their communities and Geng handpicked the script from the Beijing Film Studio. "I'm really want to do something for young people as well as realize my dreams," he said.

    The 93-minute digital movie is expected to have a nationwide release next year. "I will do the film business in a commercial way."

    For his next production, Geng says he will invest in another movie that reflects Chinese village life influenced by "Ba Rong, Ba Chi" (Eight Honors and Disgraces) proposed by Chinese President Hu Jintao.

    In March, Hu reminded the people to maintain socialist morality with "Ba Rong, Ba Chi," which in Chinese reads like pairs of opposing moral values and has a rhyming poetic lilt, such as "Follow science; discard superstition" and "Be diligent; not indolent."

    Geng has registered his own media company named Beijing Xiadu Shiji Cultural Company.

    "My movie dream has just begun, and I hope to be shooting blockbuster films in the future," he says. Enditem