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The Texas Round-Up
Notes from working in Texas film.
A guide to the indie resurgence: how independent films make money in 2027.
Three cast tiers, the budget each can carry, and the five ways an independent film earns its money back after the festival run.
Every festival deadline in December 2026.
The third month-ahead festival ledger. Every submission deadline in December 2026, every festival running in it, and the eight December deadlines that are not on the festival’s own website.
Every festival deadline in November 2026.
The second month-ahead festival ledger. Every submission deadline falling in November 2026, every festival running in it, and a Berlinale correction with six days left on it.
Every festival deadline in October 2026
The first month-ahead festival ledger. Every submission deadline falling in October 2026, every festival running in it, and six corrections to the report it is built on.
What a hundred festival rulebooks actually say.
We read the actual regulations at roughly a hundred film festivals in one week. More than a quarter were showing a dead deadline on their own website, and that was not the strangest thing we found.
Odie: what shooting a feature in Texas taught me about the budget.
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.
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