Oklahoma Gazette: What is And With Him Came the West about? Mike Plante: Famous in the Wild West for winning a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp saw the best and the worst from fame in the late 1800s. Desperately wanting to write his own legend in his old age, he […]
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deadCenter 2020: OKG talks with director / screenwriter / actress Cate Jones
Brittany Pickering: I’m Brittany Pickering, the editor-in-chief of Oklahoma Gazette, and I’m here with Cate Jones, a filmmaker, who has a film called She’s the Eldest in deadCenter this year. Can you tell me a little bit about your background and how you got into filmmaking and acting and all of that? Cate Jones: I […]
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deadCenter 2020: Q&A with directors and writers Jim Hanft and Samantha Yonack
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 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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Striking film
Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart 8 p.m. Oct. 18 Rodeo Cinema 2221 Exchange Ave. rodeocinema.org 405-815-3275 $10 Online movie database IMDB credits Mickey Reece as writer and director on 30 films. The Oklahoma-based filmmaker — whose Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart screens at Rodeo Cinema, 2221 Exchange Ave., on Oct. 18 […]