Cyndy McCrossen
City of Albuquerque Film Liaison
About Speaker
Cyndy McCrossen was recruited by Mayor Tim Keller in 2021 to serve as the Film Liaison for the City of Albuquerque Film Office. An IATSE member since 2008, Cyndy has specialized in New Mexico location scouting and management for film, television, commercial productions for over a dozen years with credits on shows such as Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Preacher, Outer Range and many others. Born and educated in NM she also lived in New York City – where she studied and performed Modern Dance- for over a decade. She has worked as a producer for still photographers and as an advocate for the film industry and film crew education. She serves as a member of Central New Mexico’s Film Advisory Committee, was recently awarded Albuquerque Film & Media Experience’s ‘Impact’ award, is a member -and award winner- of Location Managers Guild International and a member of the Association of Film Commissioners International. In her current position as Film Liaison in the City of Albuquerque Economic Development Office Cyndy has been responsible for the faceforward, physical relocation of the Albuquerque Film Office, the development of a wide-range of advertising campaigns to promote local film labor to national decision makers (one garnering an International Economic Development Council silver award) She also developed a Sustainable/Green Film Vendor data base. She has been an early advocate and supporter of the acclaimed Albuquerque branded PBS music series ‘Bands of Enchantment’. In 2022 she was invited to speak in Karlskrona Sweden at the Carl Film Forum (with Breaking Bad producer, Steward Lyon) on the subject ‘Breaking Bad’s Economic Impact on Albuquerque’. She has spoken in prior panel discussions with the Red Nation Celebration Institute on the subject of ‘Economic Development on Native Lands’. She often travels to promote Albuquerque’s film industry and continues to advocate and facilitate for all members of the Albuquerque community along their path as filmmakers.