Oklahoma Gazette: How did you meet, and when did you start making music together? Jim Hanft and Samantha Yonack: We met at a friend’s comedy show and a week later wrote our first song together. OKG: What’s the story of After So Many Days? What made you decide to play a show every day for […]
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deadCenter Film Festival: Q&A with documentary director Cheryl Horner McDonough
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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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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Cover: Tech boom
For its 19th annual celebration of local, regional, national and world film June 6-9 in downtown Oklahoma City, deadCenter Film Festival selected 140 features and short films. Among the final films announced for this year’s event include director Danny Boyle’s musical fantasy Yesterday, about a world in which the Beatles never existed, and Growing Up […]