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The Oak Cliff Film Festival is back. See which films are making their Texas debut The 10th annual event will bring 57 films to venues around Oak Cliff. The Texas Theatre is one of the venues screening films during the Oak Cliff Film Festival, which returns June 24-27.(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor) The Oak Cliff Film Festival is back. The 10th annual event will return June 24-27 at various venues around Oak Cliff, including the Texas Theatre, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Kessler Theatre and more. Fifty-seven feature and short films will screen at this year’s festival, with 15 feature-l...

Oak Cliff Film Festival reels out 15 Texas premieres for 2021 edition Oak Cliff Film Festival reels out 15 Texas premieres for 2021 edition Photo courtesy of The Criterion Collection Summer of Soul will be the opening night film at the 2021 Oak Cliff Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Mass Distraction Media Recent Oscar nominee Riz Ahmed stars in Mogul Mowgli, a spotlight feature film at the Oak Cliff Film Festival. Photo courtesy of Strand Releasing The 10th annual  Oak Cliff Film Festival is returning live, June 24-27, at various venues around Oak Cliff, including the historic Texas Thea...

Kid Candidate of the new documentary, part of this year's SXSW film Festival In 2018, 24-year-old Hayden Pedigo released a bizarre 58-second video announcing his candidacy for Amarillo city council. At the time, Pedigo had no intention of launching an actual political career; the video was meant to be a Harmony Korine-esque exercise with an amateur filmmaker friend. But when the video goes viral — at least within his community — the resulting attention inspires him to make a real run at upending the status quo. So begins Kid Candidate, the new documentary from director Jasmine ...

SXSW Kicks off Virtual Online Festival The iconic South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is almost entirely virtual this year, streaming content across five channels this week.

It’s been almost two years since guitarist and Amarillo-native Hayden Pedigo launched his bizarre  announcement for his run for Place One on the Amarillo City Council, which urged local head scratching as well as national attention. After a long wait, tomorrow at 10:00 am CT, the feature documentary about his campaign debuts at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. The film, entitled Kid Candidate, follows Hayden around Amarillo as he shines a spotlight on communities he feels are underrepresented in city government, while encouraging younger citizens previously unlikely to participate in local e...