Why we built it
About Texas Call Sheet
Texas is the future of filmmaking. But to build that future, we need to understand who we are, connect resources and people across the state, and invest in each other with pride in our shared legacy.
What that means here
Understand who we are. Cameras rolled in Texas as early as 1900, filming the ruins of the Galveston hurricane, and in 1910 Gaston Méliès opened the state’s first studio in San Antonio. More than 2,000 productions have shot here since, from Giant to Boyhood to Landman. The record is here, town by town, so we can see what we’ve already built.
Connect resources and people. The people and companies who make films here are spread across a state the size of a country, listed in a dozen places or nowhere at all. This puts crew, companies, open calls, dates and what’s shooting now in one place, on one map.
Invest in each other. Hire Texans, rent from Texans, show up for each other’s screenings. If you make films here, claim your listing so the next production can find you.
From the editor
I’m a Texas filmmaker based in Austin, and I’ve worked all over the state. I know from personal experience that finding the resources, connections, and contacts to get things done can be a helluva challenge. To date, Texas has no “Hollywood”; our industry, community, and potential, while rich, are diffuse, scattered across geography and hidden in dusty corners of the internet.
Texas Call Sheet is designed to wrangle it all together in one place for the first time. It’ll be an ongoing effort, and it can’t be done without your help. So thank you for posting, reading, and sharing it on.
Sincerely,
James Treakle-Smith
Editor, Texas Call Sheet
More of my work, including If They Took Us Back (nominated for an NAACP Image Award) and the documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, is at multihyphenate.art.
Where the data comes from
- Filmed in Texas. Titles, credits and filming locations come from Wikidata (public domain, CC0), Wikipedia’s “shot in Texas” categories (used as facts and linked, never copied), and the Texas Film Commission’s public filmography of productions made in Texas since 1910. Incentive amounts come from the commission’s paid projects report. We re-key facts; we don’t reproduce documents.
- Directory. Every listing names its public source: film commission pages, company websites and similar. Websites are checked on a schedule. Listing here is not an endorsement.
- Calendar and calls. Dates and calls come from organizers’ and productions’ own public pages, credited and linked. We don’t scrape private groups.
- Maps. Boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau; rivers, lakes and highways from Natural Earth; city streets © OpenStreetMap contributors. Drawn in the Texas state Lambert projection.
Corrections
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