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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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 […]
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Writer’s way
The city’s — and perhaps region’s — biggest annual songwriting event is moving to one of its hottest venues. The two-day Oklahoma Songwriter’s Festival, now in its third year, is set to make its Tower Theatre debut April 13-14 after two years of showcase performances at ACM@UCO Performance Lab. Several private events are scheduled for […]
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deadCenter Film Festival’s engaging high-school education program spans the state
deadCenter brings its program to around 30 high schools each year, from inner Oklahoma City to rural Guymon and Durant.
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deadCenter, OKC Film Society and 21c Museum Hotel team up for the Filmography series
A free screening of the documentary The Queen of Versailles is 8 p.m. Friday.
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DeadCenter Film names John Kennedy its board chairman
Kennedy was once made history when he was appointed Oklahoma’s youngest secretary of state.
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Photo Page: deadCenter Film Festival 16 highlights
An estimated 30,000 movie professionals and fans attended this year’s deadCenter Film Festival.
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deadCenter Film Festival: Organizers have built an event with universal appeal
“We always want to be doing something that gives back to the community,” Blaschke said, “and in a way where everyone can participate.”