Oklahoma Gazette: When did you decide to make a documentary about the survivors of the Parkland shooting? How did you go about getting in touch with them and actually making the documentary? Cheryl Horner McDonough: I was inspired to make this film in the immediate aftermath of the tragic Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland, […]
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deadCenter 2020: OKG talks with the creators of Shifter
Brittany Pickering: We’re here talking with Jacob Burns and Zachary Burns about their film Shifter, which is in deadCenter Film Festival this year. Hi, guys. How are you? Jacob Leighton Burns: Doing good. How are you doing? Zachary Burns: Doing great! Brittany Pickering: Good! Can you guys give a short description of the film so that […]
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deadCenter 2020: Q&A with director and screenwriter Ella Janes
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 […]