The stakeholders in the city of San Marcos are working together to ensure that the community thrives. Texas State University adjusts its curriculum to suit the needs of local businesses, and city staff work to make sure that graduates want to stay here and keep their knowledge and skills local.
Currently, Texas is a burgeoning film center. With the Hill Country Film Studio set to break ground in 2024, it makes perfect sense that the university has given the longstanding unofficial film program its own building and has made film a specialization — Theater with a Film Production Concentration. Daniel Seed, the TXST Big Ideas podcast host and an assistant professor of practice at the school of Journalism and Mass Communication, said the Texas Legislature approved a film incentive package that gives $200 million in incentives for film across the state.
With these new developments, Elizabeth Buckley, a lecturer for the Department of Theater and Dance, went on the podcast to discuss the TXST film program, which she said could have an intern program on the horizon that would make the students' hiring ability skyrocket.
