Your connection in Texas.
Texas pays a cash grant for shooting here, and the rules are public. The bookkeeping underneath them is where shows lose money. That part is our job. Coming from out of state? Start with Filming in Texas.
Your boots on the ground in Texas.
Production Management
Our UPMs and coordinators run your production here in Austin. Your crew shows up with the location set and ready to work.
Crew & Locations
We bring a powerful network of production professionals, local business owners, locations and connections that makes filming in Texas a breeze.
What We Offer
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Local Knowledge & Expertise
We live here. We know the crew, the vendors, the locations, and who to call for a permit in each part of the state. It’s rarely the regional film office, and the longest lead time in Texas is three weeks. Calling the right office first keeps your schedule intact.
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The audit file, built as you shoot.
Texas pays after you finish and pass verification. So we keep the record while you shoot: resident declarations at hire, location days logged the day they happen, vendor records filed the same day. When you wrap, the file is already done. Whether your project qualifies is the Texas Film Commission’s call. Our job is to have the file complete when they ask for it.
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Personalized Production Hub
One project site for your show, with a view of it built for every department. Camera gets shot lists and look books. Hair and makeup gets continuity stills and character breakdowns. Everyone is looking at the current version, and nobody is working off one of six.
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Production data center
Daily crew briefing
Producer daily wrap
Use your systems
A personalized project website for each member of your staff. Camera has the shot lists and look books. Hair and makeup has continuity photos and character breakdowns. Everyone preps from the same current version.
Customized to your shoot. We take your crew’s prep work and make sure every department gets what it needs, every day. Cast gets sides and a brief on where the scene sits in the story. The DP gets the shot list, continuity and look book comps. It all goes out by email or text every morning.
Our system collects the daily call sheet and the camera, continuity and DIT reports, and keeps them in one place your whole team can reach. Producers and department heads get personalized daily crew briefings each morning and wrap reports each evening, plus weekly and monthly summaries.
You don’t need new software, apps or spreadsheets. Your process stays the same. It just becomes easy to find and organized from pre-production through post. Every phase of your production runs faster.
State of Filming in the Union
The 2027 report. Free edition.
Every state film incentive program in one book. What each one pays, the floor you have to clear before the rate matters at all, and whether you are paid in cash or in a credit you have to sell. Forty-two jurisdictions pay. Eleven do not. The Executive Edition, with the film office contacts and the budget planner, is $19.99. Available here.
Who to call about shooting in Texas
The film offices directory. 25 pages.
The Texas Film Commission, eleven regional commissions, and fifty-one city and county offices, with who issues the permit, the fee, the lead time and the insurance minimum. The finding people keep is that the film office usually does not issue the permit. Three of the eleven do.
The Festival Report 2026
The guide. 41 pages.
A hundred festival rulebooks, read end to end and reported back. How the submission tiers actually work, what a fee waiver is worth, which deadlines are real and which are marketing, and the dated calendar through June 2027. The full report, with all 109 festivals, is $9.99. Available here.
Screening your film in Texas
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Close to eighty independent rooms across seven regions that will book a finished film. How each kind of room books, the five things a venue checks before it says yes, the first call in every region, and what has closed. Checked against each venue's own site.
The Indie 100
The nation’s 100 best indie theaters.
All one hundred independent theaters, with the city, the kind of room, and what each one actually books. That last column is the one that saves you the wasted email. The complete directory, with programmer names and booking contacts, is $9.99. Available here.
Texas film incentives at a glance
The executive producer's glance pass. Free.
One picture, budgeted against Texas, Georgia, New Mexico and California, with the same assumptions carried across all four. What comes out is that the base moves the final number more than the headline rate does. This is a model, not a quote. Confirm anything you are about to budget against with the Commission at 512-463-9200.
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