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Local filmmaking round-up
The feature “Five Time Champion” recently wrapped in Smithville, starring Betty Buckley, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (“Friday Night Lights”) and John Gries (Uncle Rico in “Napoleon Dynamite”). The drama was written and directed by Berndt Mader, a former Radio-Television-Film student at UT, and some current and former RTF students worked on the film. Mader’s script went through the University of Texas Film Institute’s Script and Production Labs. More about “Five Time Champion” HERE.
We’re told that UTFI’s first feature (without Burnt Orange Productions) “Dance with the One,” which shot in Austin last year, is “locked.” It’s in post-production at UT and the filmmakers hope to have it done by summer’s end. Sundance 2010 is their first target. Read our on-set visit of “Dance with the One” HERE.
Out in lovely Bastrop, Carolyn Banks has wrapped and canned her first feature film “Invicta.” The tagline says it all: “Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas.” Learn more about the “horror tra-la,” as the puckish Banks puts it, HERE.
“Invicta”
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