Austin Film School Programs UT: Radio-Television-Film at Moody College and the Education Pipeline Fueling Texas Production
Austin’s production industry is built on a foundation that most competing markets lack: a world-class film education program embedded directly within the city’s creative ecosystem. The Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication is one of the premier film schools in the United States, consistently ranking in the […]
SXSW Film Festival Austin: How the World’s Most Influential Convergence Festival Shapes Austin’s Production Identity
Every March, Austin transforms into one of the most important film markets and premiere venues in the world. The SXSW Film Festival Austin component of the broader South by Southwest conference draws thousands of filmmakers, distributors, studio executives, and audiences to screenings across the city’s theaters and venues. But SXSW is only the headline event […]
Austin Film Production Infrastructure: Austin Studios, Troublemaker, and the Studio Ecosystem Building Texas’s Next Production Capital
Austin has been quietly assembling the physical infrastructure of a major production city for over two decades. What started with converted airplane hangars on a decommissioned municipal airport has evolved into a multi-campus studio ecosystem stretching from East Austin to Bastrop County, with over a billion dollars in new development either under construction or in […]
9 Best Golden Hour Locations for Videographers in Houston
Houston’s golden hour is an underappreciated spectacle. The city’s flat coastal geography creates enormous sky views, and the combination of Gulf Coast humidity, atmospheric haze in the warm light, the dramatic industrial landscape, and the reflective surfaces of Buffalo Bayou creates golden hour conditions that are genuinely striking when you know where to find them. […]
10 Things Nobody Tells You About Working in Houston’s Film Industry
Houston is the largest city in Texas and one of the most underrated production markets in the United States. Its scale, diversity, range of locations, and growing infrastructure make it a serious production destination that has historically been overshadowed by Austin and Dallas in national conversations about Texas filmmaking. But Houston’s production community knows exactly […]
9 Reasons Houston Is Quietly Becoming One of America’s Top Production Markets
Houston has long been overshadowed by Austin and Dallas in conversations about Texas film production, but the city’s enormous scale, extraordinary diversity, top-tier Houston videographers, filmmakers, and growing production infrastructure are making it an increasingly compelling destination that national and international productions are beginning to discover in earnest. Here are the reasons the production industry […]
Hollywood’s Body Double: How Houston Became Detroit, Outer Space, and Small-Town Louisiana on Screen
Houston is one of those cities that Hollywood keeps returning to for reasons that have almost nothing to do with how the city looks on a postcard. The Bayou City’s most famous screen appearances include a sequel in which it played Detroit, a space thriller in which it helped simulate weightlessness 35,000 feet above the […]
Movies Filmed in Houston Texas Cinematic Identity: Rushmore, Apollo 13, Urban Cowboy, Terms of Endearment, and Space City on Screen
Houston’s cinematic identity is built on two pillars that define the city itself: space and swagger. The movies filmed in Houston draw from NASA’s Mission Control and the Johnson Space Center as readily as they draw from the honky-tonks of Pasadena and the prep schools of River Oaks. The Bayou City has served as the […]
Austin Film Society Richard Linklater: How One Filmmaker Built the Institution That Made Austin a Film City
In 1985, a 24-year-old with oil rig savings, an unfinished Super 8 feature, and an insatiable appetite for cinema founded a small film screening series in Austin, Texas. Richard Linklater had no business plan, no institutional backing, and no particular reason to believe that Austin a college town with no production infrastructure could become a […]
Texas Film Incentive TMIIIP: The Complete Producer’s Guide to the $1.5 Billion Cash Grant Program Reshaping Production in the Lone Star State
For years, Texas had the locations, the crew base, and the cultural identity to compete with Georgia, Louisiana, and New Mexico for major productions. What it lacked was the financial firepower. That changed dramatically in 2025 when the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 22, committing $1.5 billion over ten years to the Texas Moving Image […]