Oklahoma Gazette: At 13 years old, you’re the youngest filmmaker accepted to deadCenter Film Festival. How did you become interested in filmmaking? Ella Janes: I became interested in filmmaking because I grew up around it. My parents both are in the film industry, and so I always knew what to do and always had access […]
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deadCenter 2020: OKG talks with Lance McDaniel about this year’s festival
Brittany Pickering, editor-in-chief of Oklahoma Gazette: I’m here with Lance McDaniel, executive director of deadCenter Film Festival, and he’s going to talk to us about this year’s festival. Lance McDaniel, executive director of deadCenter Film Festival: Yes. Thank you, Brittany, for having me, and thank you to the Gazette because you guys have been a […]
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PRESS RELEASE deadCenter Film announces 2020 Oklahoma Film & TV Icons for 20th annual festival
The deadCenter Film Festival will honor four outstanding Oklahomans with the Oklahoma Film & TV ICON Award at its 20thannual film festival, taking place online from June 11 – 21, at www.deadcenterfilm.org. Honorees include studio executive Elaine Paul, actress Megyn Price, journalist Brandy McDonnell, and filmmaker Ryan Bellgardt. Elaine Paul is an Oklahoma City native […]
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PRESS RELEASE deadCenter Expands Access and Extends Dates for 2020 Festival
The deadCenter Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary from June 11-21, with an extended 10-day schedule, half-price passes and more movies and panels than ever before. Eddie, the definitive documentary about OSU coaching legend Eddie Sutton, leads the slate of 140 films from around the world and across Oklahoma that will premiere during the […]
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PRESS RELEASE Hideaway Pizza Launches Home Film Contest
4/2/2020 update: The deadline has been extended to April 15. Need something fun to do? Put your creative juices to work and submit an entry or two in Hideaway’s Inaugural Home Film Festival! Write a script, grab your cell phones, and get filming! Include Hideaway Pizza somehow in your video (we know you’ve got a […]
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New direction
deadCenter’s recently named new executive director Alyx Picard Davis began volunteering at the film festival in 2006. Studying screenwriting at University of Central Oklahoma at the time, Picard Davis heard about the festival from her French professor. “I just I loved it,” Picard Davis said. “I fell in love with the people; I fell in […]
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Continuing Tales
Season two of Scandalous Tales might have taken longer than fans wanted, but creator Alexandria Carr said it almost didn’t happen at all. “I know that people have been waiting for two years, and so I got to the point where I felt like I was rushing it,” said Carr, who writes, directs and plays […]
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Gone Hollywood
Casting notices for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Jesse Eisenberg watching a Thunder home game with Mayor David Holt seem to indicate Oklahoma’s status in the film world has noticeably improved from the days when the state served as the launchpad for Twister’s flying cow. Earlier this month, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Department’s […]
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Our time
For actress and producer Michaelene Stephenson, being a filmmaker is exactly what it sounds like. “My main goal would be to help movies get made, and if that means I’m the right person for a role and I need to act in the film, awesome. I really love doing that,” said Stephenson. “But if that […]
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Tackling subjects
Fathers of Football 18 p.m. Friday Rodeo Cinema 2221 Exchange Ave. rodeocinema.org 405-235-3456 $10 He lives in Austin now, but filmmaker Bradley Beesley has spent much of his life thinking about Oklahoma. His documentaries about barehanded fishing (Okie Noodling), the Oklahoma State Penitentiary rodeo (Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo) and The Flaming Lips (The Fearless […]