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Action heroes; the best emerging Texas filmmakers of 2009.

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No single style or sensibility drives our third annual look at up-and-coming Texas filmmakers, in which we profile practitioners of both no-budget indies and multimillion-dollar Hollywood popcorn fare and praise both earnest social dramas and deadpan comedies. It's a fitting snapshot for an uncertain era, as rapidly emerging technologies are transforming the way entertainment is created, distributed, and consumed. [paragraph] Our criteria for inclusion: (1) Filmmakers must be raised, educated, or based in Texas, (2) their work needs to have been released by a well-known commercial distributor or screened at nationally respected festivals like Sundance, and (3) they must have a new feature premiering in 2009. This year we've bent those rules slightly to include a director whose deeply unnerving debut emerged out of nowhere last May and a pair of producers of some of the most vital indies of the decade. Especially these days, some talent needs to be acknowledged precisely because it thinks outside the box. [paragraph] While this probablyisn't our strongest Action Heroes crop to date--none are as naturally gifted as David Gordon Green...

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