Texas film mediawebsite
Texas Art & Film
Founded in 2009 by Evan Zimmerman to promote art and film in Texas.
2009– · active
/legacy/media/texas-art-and-film/ ↗︎ · Archived copy ↗︎
The story
Texas Art & Film is a review site founded in 2009 by Evan Zimmerman, a publisher and photojournalist who set out to promote art and film in Texas. In 2010 the site, then at texasartfilm.com, called itself a nonprofit within the Zimmerman Arts Cooperative and ran letter-graded reviews and Oscar commentary by Dustin Chase. By early 2012 it had added a video interview channel and was carrying Houston Film Critics Society award news and items on WorldFest and the Cinema Arts Festival, with reviews and interviews by Chase and Donna Copeland, a clinical psychologist who also appeared on KUHF's Houston Matters.
The site has since covered SXSW, Austin Film Festival, the Dallas International Film Festival and Toronto, and its archive is tagged by festival and year. Chase, now editor at large, belongs to the Critics Choice Association and the Houston Film Critics Society. James Brown, a former KPRC Radio co-host who lives in Houston, joined in 2017 and has been editor in chief since 2022. Contributors include Max Weimmer, a founding director of the Houston Greek Film Festival. The site was still posting star-rated reviews in October 2026.
Known for
| In 2010 the site described itself as a nonprofit that was part of the Zimmerman Arts Cooperative, and ran letter-graded reviews and Oscar commentary by Dustin Chase. | ↗︎ |
| By January 2012 its homepage carried a Texas Art & Film Channel of video interviews, Houston Film Critics Society award news, and items on WorldFest and the Cinema Arts Festival. | ↗︎ |
| Its review archive is tagged by festival and year, from SXSW 2011 through Austin Film Festival 2025, with tags for the Dallas International Film Festival, Toronto and the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. | ↗︎ |
| Editor at large Dustin Chase, reviewing since 1997, belongs to the Critics Choice Association and the Houston Film Critics Society. | ↗︎ |
People
| Name | Role | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evan Zimmerman | founder | 2009- | ↗︎ |
| Dustin Chase | critic; now editor at large | by 2010- | ↗︎ |
| Donna Copeland | critic and interviewer (1939-2022) | by 2012-2022 | ↗︎ |
| James Brown | film critic and copy editor from 2017; editor in chief since 2022 | 2017- | ↗︎ |
| Max Weimmer | contributor | current | ↗︎ |
| Mark Schumann | contributor, awards podcasts and reviews | current | ↗︎ |
Sources
- About Our Critics Texas Art & Film n.d.
- Movie Reviews & Film Festival Coverage (homepage) Texas Art & Film 2026-10
- mainpage (archived homepage) Texas Art & Film via Internet Archive 2010-03-25
- Main Page (archived homepage) Texas Art & Film via Internet Archive 2012-01-14