Shot in Texas

Man of the House shot on the University of Texas campus in late 2003, using the actual UT name, stadium, band and cheerleaders. The locations, the access it took, and what a live game day costs a schedule.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.