You do know that “The Alamo” is not the only movie ever filmed in Texas
A lot of the industry people who make this happen will be in Houston starting tomorrow, lining up for the annual meeting of the Texas Motion Picture Alliance on July 23rd.
This TXMPA is an advocacy group that supports our film, video, interactive and digital media. It lobbies the Lege in Austin Texas
Why’s this get-together important enough to warrant a Signalwriter blog post? Not to mention events and parties here in the Bayou City
Working for and with Locke Bryan Productions I have had the chance to do video and TV projects like this. I’ve worked on client audio projects with Audio Bob. I’ve worked with Zephyr Salvo on website creation and content development. Participants in the TXMPA are an integral part of my work-life.
When colleagues like Locke Bryan, Bob Vance and John Phillippe (among others) tell me they’re hosting a party for the industry and TXMPA attendees on Friday, July 22, I’d kinda like to be there to say “I appreciate your work.”
Becci Himes, Executive Director of the British-American Business Council Houston, also sent the TXMPA schedule over – she wants me to attend the luau the following evening, after the membership meeting. She noted, “Richard, I see a new Hawaiian shirt in your future!”
I’ll start by wearing an extra-loud one to this Margarita Madness lash-up on Friday. I’ll try to drop some memorable lines like, “You shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas
That’s from “Thelma and Louise,” 1991. Not filmed here. Maybe one of those TXMPA-ers will be able to use it in marketing.
3 comments:
Reads well. Go ahead, name your favorite Texas movies (where a significant portion, if not all, of the movie is made in Texas or about Texas). You go first. Yours won't influence mine. I'll be naming five.
I have to go first, Greg? Thanx a bunch. That’s a challenge. Okay, my choices (in no order) are:
▪ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
▪ The Sugarland Express
▪ Bonnie and Clyde
▪ Rushmore
▪ Bull Durham
The Last Picture Show. And with all due respect to the others, a long pause before Lone Star, Giant, Terms of Endearment, and Bonnie and Clyde (although that one ended in Louisiana). Urban Cowboy was good, as was the one of the teenagers in the really small town who set up their lawn chairs in the middle of the road. Fifty years ago, The Alamo was good. Might be worth another look. Haven't seen Friday Night Lights, Hope Floats and surely dozens of others, including the new one by Mr. Malick. JFK way way down on the list, although they did spend a lot money making sure the Texas Theatre looked just right.
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