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Made in Texas | Lawmen: Bass Reeves
"I've shot in Los Angeles...I've shot in Atlanta, I've shot in New York, I've shot Pittsburgh, I've shot in a lot of places and love all those crews...but the combination of the landscape with the crew you get being [in Texas], is bar none." And that's just one of the incredible quotes to come out of our Made in Texas interview with Chad and directors Christina Voros and Damian Marcano. Listen in now as they discuss their process of telling the story of a truly incredible real-world individual, filming in Texas towns some Texans hadn't even heard of and so much more.
Made in Texas | El Gato Feo filmmakers Daniel Fabelo & Learda Shkurti
What's the benefit of filming in a place like Pandale, Texas? Per Learda Shkurti, producer of the short film "El Gato Feo": "Just the amount of land they had and the amount of land we had to work with was...insane." If you know West Texas, you know exactly what she's talking about! Check out our latest Made in Texas interview with Learda and writer/director Daniel Fabelo to hear more about the logistics of working in a remote location, avoiding snakes, javelinas and mountain lions and more, right now.
Happy Halloween From the Texas Film Commission
Happy Halloween!
Made in Texas | Sunshine Shuffle director Xalavier Nelson Jr.
We recently spoke with Strange Scaffold studio head Xalavier Nelson Jr. - director of such games as Sunshine Shuffle and the just-released El Paso Elsewhere - and his thoughts on El Paso were just so good we almost couldn't wait to share them with the world: "The idea of El Paso being a homebase that can extrapolate art and incredible people and experiences into the wider world...is kind of a perfect encapsulation of Texas as a whole. We are a small portion of the overall world...but gosh, we impact the globe on a daily basis." But wait, there's more! Settle in and listen as we chat with Xalavier about the surprising difficulty of making a card game, the benefits of working in Texas, what's on the horizon for Strange Scaffold and more, in our latest Made in Texas interview.
Made in Texas | When You Get To The Forest director Eric Power
"There's a huge history in animated films dating back to the beginning of cinema for cut-paper stop motion," Eric Power, director of the feature film "When You Get to the Forest" recently told us. "So it's nice to carry on that tradition in a new century." We couldn't agree more! Listen in as we discuss Power's latest film and the art of stop-motion filmmaking in our latest Made in Texas interview.
TFC September 2023 Newsletter
TFC Newsletter, September 2023
Made in Texas | The Robert Rodriguez Interview
This one has been a long time coming, y’all: our own Robert Rodriguez sat down to interview none other than legendary Texas filmmaker…Robert Rodriguez. Robert meets Robert in our latest Made in Texas interview – listen as they discuss the benefits of working outside of Hollywood, making movies with your family and more, right now. Special thanks to Nixon Guerrero and Luis Caffesse
Made in Texas with “Love & Death” crew Ben Lowry & Gabriella Villarreal
Listen in on Part 2 of our "Love and Death" Made in Texas interview, with Sound Mixer Ben Lowry and Set Decorator Gabriella Villarreal, as they discuss their individual roles on-set, why this project was different than others they've worked on, their favorite elements of production and more.