The Texas Round-Up

The Royal's exterior is in Archer City. Its interior is a different theater 30 miles away in Olney. Eight Oscar nominations, no stages, two lights.

Four rate sheets, three of them from city-owned historic houses, a Mineola single screen that has shown movies since 1920 and runs a free shorts festival, five festivals that are the region's real on-ramp, and a warning about weekends.

Fourteen rooms from Abilene to the Oklahoma line, many of them community-owned single screens, four with rental rates posted, plus the festival in Lubbock that wants films about the Southwest. And why Midland, Odessa, and San Angelo are not on the list.

Two El Paso festivals that pay local filmmakers, a city-owned digital cinema inside the Plaza, a cultural center with a twelve-week lead time and a museum with an eight-week one, and the nonprofit theater that is Marfa's only screen.

One true art house, the civic halls that do the real four-walling, a film society running Laredo's only non-chain screen, an artist-run film center in Harlingen, and the festivals that stand in for theaters across the Valley and the coast.

A subsidized DCP room in Midtown, a monthly showcase that takes Houston shorts for free, two venues that price a film screening as its own line item, and one ownership question you should know about before you call River Oaks.

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.

Twelve rooms between Waco and Kerrville that will program or rent to a filmmaker, four more to call first, with the path in, the format they take, and what changed this year.

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, with no email address required.

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.

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