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Homegrown Spirit Thrives in ‘Okie Shorts Mix Tape Vol. 1’ – dCFF20
June 14, 2020

The most intimate stories are often those closest to home.

Oklahoma’s homegrown short films return to the deadCenter Film Festival with Okie Shorts Mix Tape. Divided across two volumes, the first offers an intense glimpse into…

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‘Billie’ Offers A Unique Portrait Of Lady Day – dCFF20
June 13, 2020

“Billie Holiday sang only truth. She knew nothing else,” states fellow singer and friend Sylvia Syms of the late Lady Day (1915-1959) near the beginning of Billie, a new documentary from James Erskine (The Battle Of The Sexes, The Ice King), available now through Sunday via deadCenter’s…

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Shifter Audio Diary #5 – A deadCenter Homecoming – dCFF20
June 11, 2020

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It’s been four years since Planet Thunder Productions, writer/director Jacob Leighton Burns and producer Zachary Burns won deadCenter’s Best Oklahoma Narrative Feature Film in 2016. After next taking home the first-place prize from the 48-hour…

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Shifter Audio Diary #4 – The World Premiere
March 5, 2020

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After more than a year and a half of fundraising, pre-production, filming and, post-production VFX, The Cinematropolis co-founders Jacob Leighton Burns and Zachary Burns are premiering their new time-travel body horror film, Shifter, at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival in San Jose, California on Friday,…

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Oscars 2020 Predictions – The Cinematic Schematic
February 6, 2020

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After a long hiatus, The Cinematic Schematic returns for a special episode to give listeners, cinephiles and people hoping to be impressive at this Sunday night’s 92nd Academy Awards watch parties everything they need to build a semi-accurate-ish Oscar ballot. Tune in to the conversation to…

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The Most Beloved Films of the 2010s – Day 4: From Around the Web
December 31, 2019

In the final part of our four-part series, we spoke with writers, podcasters and personalities from around the web about their most beloved films of the 2010s.

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The Most Beloved Films of the 2010s – Day 3: deadCenter Film Festival Staff
December 30, 2019

In part three of our four-part series, we spoke with staff members of Oklahoma's largest film festival, the deadCenter Film Festival, about their most beloved films of the 2010s.

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