Raider Reel Presents: Halloween Short Films

Throughout this semester, many Texas Tech University student filmmakers have been busy producing short films for the first Raider Reel Presents competition. The horror or thriller-themed short films had to be between two and five minutes in length and were judged by Texas Tech professors. Five of the submitted films will be sent to film festivals as one […]

Short Film: The Canvas

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

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

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

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 […]