Shot in Texas

One state office runs the grant. Eleven regional commissions run the ground. 218 certified communities have a local liaison. Who does what, and who to call.

A ranked list of the 100 best U.S. theaters for independent film, and which 72 will actually book yours. Free brief, plus the working file.

The seven-part directory, folded into twelve pages you can print: the two booking worlds, the five things a venue checks, the first calls in every region, and what has changed. Free, for an email address, and here is what the address is for.

Close to eighty independent rooms across seven regions that will program, rent to, or festival a Texas filmmaker, checked against each venue's own site. The three doors in, the five things that decide whether a venue says yes, and the regional editions.

September's ledger of what's actually shooting in Texas, by region, with a named source on every line. Plus two corrections to the August edition.

What the program actually is, the two thresholds that decide whether you qualify, and the places productions lose money they thought they had.

Fifteen short-film grants from 225 applications, a feature cycle worth up to $20,000, and a March gala at Troublemaker Studios. How Austin funds its own.

Three hundred million dollars a biennium for a decade, a rebuilt tier ladder that tops out at 31%, and about a hundred applications already in. The numbers, precisely.

The Paramount goes dark for a $65 million restoration while AFS Cinema builds a 179-seat third screen. What that says about who's betting on theatrical here.

The festival cut two days, lost its convention center, and still premiered ninety world premieres. What we took home from March.

Four Sheridan productions, the largest studio campus in the state, a final season in Midlothian, and a fund with a hundred applications. The August ledger.

I directed and produced Odie in Austin this spring. Three things I'd budget differently, one thing Texas gave me that no other state would have, and no company-level claims.

The Davis Mountains for the Rockies, the Hill Country for Provence, Palo Duro for the Outback, Caddo Lake for the Amazon, and four European villages that shouldn't exist here. With the honest limits.

What actually exists, who runs it, and what's still a rendering. Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Midlothian, Bastrop, San Marcos, Mansfield, sorted honestly, no rates.

You already have a line producer. Here is what the Texas half of your production office does that they can't, from the Odie shoot, and the honest cases where you don't need it.