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The Texas Round-Up
Notes from working in Texas film.
Spotlight: San Antonio Film Commission turned 40 after issuing 586 film permits in 2025.
Film San Antonio turned 40 with 586 permits in 2025. Who runs it, who helps filmmakers, and how to start with permits, SAFI and crew calls.
Selena filled the Alamodome with about 34,000 unpaid extras in one day so it could play the Astrodome.
Selena was shot in San Antonio and Corpus Christi in 1996. The Alamodome played the Astrodome, Poteet played Monterrey, and a college played the Grammys.
Blank Check’s castle is a real Austin house, and it started life as a water tower.
Blank Check is set in Indiana and was shot in central Texas: an Austin castle, a San Antonio bank hall and theme park, and a Dallas fountain.
San Antonio and South Texas: every independent screen a filmmaker can book.
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.
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