, encompassing all of the area's creative productions and expanding endeavors to sectors like video games, podcasting, publishing and virtual reality. Now she says she's decided it's the right time to retire.
"We just went through the money so fast, and it can't be funded against until September of 2023," Burklund says."We've been busy with commercials and gothere, but the chances of getting another big series is very limited because of not having incentives. So it felt like a good time to go ahead and go out instead of in the middle of something."as a location manager while the production filmed in Dallas.
"When I was talking to these other sectors, you realized there was a lot of silos and they didn't know each other," Burklund says."A handful of people on the film side worked on the music side, so we thought if we could pull them together, we could create some synergy and get them working together more."
"I believe we could've had more if we had more infrastructure, but you only have so much with the state incentives," Burklund says."We could have so much more that comes in if we had more to support it. I would like to think [that] at some point, the powers that be will understand that it's a good return on the investment, jobs and good tourism dollars because people like to go see the places where things have been filmed.