The Flatland Film Festival starts Oct. 6 and goes through the weekend, with multiple screenings of films with local connections. The festival is a celebration of Texas filmmaking. A short film screening on Friday night at Alamo Drafthouse includes films from nine local filmmakers. The feature programming block also includes films with local angles. Robert Peaslee, co-chair of the […]
Short Film: The Canvas
September 19, 2016 by
After getting his first C in Art Appreciation, a class he enjoyed but just did not do great in, Juan Gil was determined to turn a negative into a positive. The art he studied in the class inspired his short film, “The Canvas.” “I was pissed that I got a C, but at least I got […]
Short Film: Night of the Deadly Puppet
September 15, 2016 by
What started out as a Snapchat series starring a puppet is now a short film featured in an international film festival. Ricardo Cortez, a senior electronic media and communications major, came up with the idea for “Night of the Deadly Puppet” over the summer after making Snapchats featuring his childhood toy, Roger. Starring his little brother, […]
CoMC Students Begin First Feature Film
March 31, 2016 by
By Violeta Trevizo What began as a casual conversation at Market Street in the fall of 2015 has now become a project Weston Davis and John Hackney hope will be a milestone in filmmaking for other Texas Tech University students like themselves. “Sam (on Everything)” has gone through many script changes in the past months. The […]
Thoughts On Fire – Student Film Reaches Final Round In Competition
March 21, 2013 by
Erika Laffin, a senior visual communications major from Great Falls, Montana, wrote and directed a five-minute short film that chronicles the relationship of a couple as a means of bringing light to the ways in which we waste energy. The film has just reached the final round of the fourth annual TXU Energy Light Up […]
