Catalyst comes to the Northland
17 Aug 2019
Cook County could one day become a place where movies and TV programs are filmed, or portions of them, anyway, bringing good-paying jobs with the filmmaking.
And Cook County could also host locations where TV and film writers gather to work on scripts, Riki McManus told a small group of people at Grand Marais city hall.
For more than 30 years McManus has been the director of the Upper Minnesota Film Office. She and Katie Strand, a producer, and JoAnn Jardine, a photographer, were in Grand Marais discussing Catalysts recent move to Duluth, and what that move means for the Northland.
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