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 […]
Alyx Picard Davis
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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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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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Evolving focus
deadCenter Film Festival 2018 wrapped in June, but the event’s organizers are already thinking about the future. Submissions for the 2019 festival open Wednesday, and cutting-edge technology, a returning category and a new eligibility requirement that could increase deadCenter’s potential for Academy Award consideration are all part of the coming attractions. In hopes of being […]
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Cover Story: Studying the storied history of banning popular literature
“I think one of the quickest ways to get a book read is to ban it,” Cheek said as she worked at Norman Public Library West.