FILM NEWS and SHOT IN TEXAS
Getting arrested as an extra on the set of
Richard Linklater's "The Newton Boys"
in Austin.
My column about the ins and outs of the Texas film industry, FILM NEWS, appears twice monthly in the Austin Chronicle. You can read past columns here and other Chronicle articles by me here. I am also now penning a monthly column called SHOT IN TEXAS for the Dallas Morning News. Look for it the first Friday. Previously my column ran from 2000 to 2004 in the Austin American-Statesman. Check out the last Statesman column. The column has also appeared in newspapers in other Texas cities including San Antonio, Waco and Laredo. I also occasionally write about the film industry for Variety.
A script I cowrite, DEADLY LITTLE LIES, is making the rounds now and it looks promising. Stay tuned.How did I become an "expert" on film in the Lone Star State? I was a movie extra.