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TFC Inaugural Digital Media Newsletter
TFC Inaugural Digital Media Newsletter, February 2024
Governor Abbott Launches New Digital Media Friendly Texas Program
Governor Greg Abbott today launched the new Digital Media Friendly Texas Certified Community program in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism. Launched through the Texas Film Commission, this new program will attract digital media production across the state and grow local jobs in animation, visual effects (VFX), video games, and extended reality (XR).
TFC January Newsletter
TFC Newsletter, January 2024
TFC November 2023 Newsletter
TFC Newsletter, November 2023
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
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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.