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Action heroes: our first annual search for the next great Texas directors.

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Don't get us wrong: The Third Coast is real and thriving. Prison Break and Friday Night Lights are being shot in Dallas and Austin, respectively; Texas-set films by the Coen brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson recently wrapped production; even Dallas might finally get made. But for all the activity, something's noticeably amiss. In the decade-plus since Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater, and Wes Anderson burst onto the scene, no new major Texas directors have emerged to succeed them. Is our state still capable of producing original, off-kilter talent?

With the fourteenth edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival upon us, the time has come to answer this question. We present our first annual survey of rising filmmakers who might (or might not) become the next big Texas thing. Our criteria: (1) Directors must be Texas-born, -raised, or-educated, (2) theirwork needs to have played at nationally respected festivals like Sundance or SXSW, and (3) they must have a feature-length film on the festival circuit or in commercial theaters in the next year.

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