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The Texas Round-Up
Notes from working in Texas film.
Lubbock, the Panhandle and the Big Country: every independent screen a filmmaker can book.
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.
Leap of Faith turned Plainview into Rustwater, Kansas, and the name stayed up for 24 years.
Plainview played Rustwater, Kansas for eleven shooting days in 1992, after two months of preparation, and the water tower kept the fictional name until 2016.
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