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deadCenter 2026 Featured Film Festivals Special Episode The Cinematic Schematic
2026 deadCenter Film Festival: Everything You Need to Know
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    deadCenter 2024 Film Festivals

    Wild Goat Surf Is dCFF24’s Most Poignant Coming-of-Age Drama

    June 11, 2024
    Shayelin Martin and Leandro Guedes in Wild Goat Surf (2023)

    Wild Goat Surf is a heartfelt coming-of-age drama following its titular character, Goat, during the summer of 2003 in a rundown Canadian RV park. Goat is a surf-obsessed, 12-year-old skater girl, daughter to struggling single mom Jane. During these unstructured, sun-soaked days of youth, Goat navigates the…

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    deadCenter 2024 Featured Interviews The Cinematic Schematic

    Paul Sparks Returns to Oklahoma, A Land of Growing Opportunities for deadCenter 2024

    June 11, 2024
    Paul Sparks
    deadCenter 2024 ICON Award-Winner Paul Sparks joins The Cinematic Schematic from deadCenter 2024 to discuss revisiting Oklahoma, the upcoming film The Bikeriders, and what it means to be an artist committed to the pursuit of storytelling.

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    deadCenter 2024 Essays

    Stories Too Big for Cinema Unfold in the deadCenter Episodics – dCFF24

    June 11, 2024
    Adam Narimatsu in Nathan Colby's Body Snatchers, a tv pilot that screened at the 2024 deadCenter film festival.

    The 2024 deadCenter Episodics Showcase Genre-Defying Pilots

    Every great show starts somewhere. This year’s deadCenter Episodics features short films that allude to long-form narratives that demand to be told. This year’s collection of distinct and compelling pilots includes four genre-defying entries…

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    deadCenter 2024 Essays Film Festivals

    La Singla Documentary Presents a Mystery Wrapped in Passion and Pain – dCFF24

    June 10, 2024
    La Singla

    2024 deadCenter Film Festival Best Documentary Feature winner La Singla tells the story of Antonia Singla, a born-deaf Romani from Spain. As a teenager in the 1960s, she was one of the most celebrated flamenco dancers in the world. But as quickly as her stardom rose,…

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    OKC Mayor David Holt Weighs In on Thriving Film Industry at deadCenter 2024

    June 10, 2024
    OKC Mayor David Holt
    OKC Mayor David Holt joins The Cinematic Schematic from the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival to discuss its overall impact on the state of Oklahoma and OKC's growing film industry.

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    deadCenter 2024 Essays

    Saucedo Documentary Captures the Aftermath of a Meteoric Rise – dCFF24

    June 10, 2024
    Alex Saucedo, the subject of Emmett Berg's Saucedo, which premiered at the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival.

    On his way to Tulsa, Oklahoma for his last appearance on ESPN’s Top Rank, former boxer Alex Saucedo begs a question as emotional as it is existential: What does he do with the fighter that still lives inside of him? Emmett Berg’s Saucedo traces that “what”…

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    deadCenter 2024 Featured Interviews The Cinematic Schematic

    Hail to the Breadsticks! Is an Irreverant Conversation Starter

    June 9, 2024
    Hail to the Breadsticks!
    Donick Cary joins The Cinematic Schematic from deadCenter 2024 to discuss his new movie, Hail to the Breadsticks! The film was named deadCenter's Best Oklahoma Feature by the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle.

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    deadCenter 2024 Essays Film Festivals

    2024 deadCenter Horror Shorts Block Offers Bite-Sized Chills – dCFF24

    June 9, 2024
    2024 deadCenter Horror Shorts
    Christopher Shultz recaps and reviews each entry in the 2024 deadCenter Horror Shorts block including SHÉ (SNAKE), Transylvanie, and more.

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    deadCenter 2024 Essays Film Festivals

    Citizen Sleuth Questions the Truth Behind True Crime – dCFF24

    June 9, 2024
    Emily Nestor in Chris Kasick's Citizen Sleuth, which screened at the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival.
    Daniel Bokemper reviews Chris Kasick’s doc, Citizen Sleuth, a jarring look at true crime that screened at the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival.

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    deadCenter 2024 Featured The Cinematic Schematic

    Secret Mall Apartment Unveils The Untold Story of Providence Place

    June 8, 2024
    Secret Mall Apartment
    Michael Townsend joins The Cinematic Schematic at deadCenter 2024 to share the story behind the documentary Secret Mall Apartment and his collaboration with director Jeremy Workman.

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