The Texas Round-Up

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.

Texas first: AFF winners, Lone Star at 20, a documentary at No. 1, new deals, filmmaker lessons, and this weekend’s festivals and deadlines.

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.

The University of North Texas supplied the fictional Texas State. Fouts Field supplied the football. 17,000 locals showed up because the radio asked.

One theater with a filmmaker service menu, a Fort Worth that lost four rooms in four years, and the suburban historic houses that publish their rates. The North Texas edition.

Every city owns the how-to-apply page. Nobody says how long it takes. Here are the published lead times for eight Texas jurisdictions, side by side, from their own pages, and the one clock that isn't the city's.

Three hundred million dollars a biennium for a decade, a rebuilt tier ladder that tops out at 25% before uplifts, and about a hundred applications already in. The numbers, precisely.

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.

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.