#TXVoices: A Bright Future for Emerging Latina Actress and Dallas Resident Giovannie Cruz

by Bob Valleau on February 3, 2022

This University of North Texas alumna has come a long way since graduating with a music degree in Opera and Early Music. After appearing in two Warner Brothers feature films this past summer, Cruz talks...

Five Minutes With Houstonian Shawn Welling, Multiple Award-Winning Director

by Bob Valleau on January 18, 2021

Shawn Welling is a former dancer/choreographer whose work has been seen on NFL/NHL Championship half-time shows, Cirque du Soleil, Broadway and MTV.  Today, this committed family man is the founder of Houston-based Welling Films, and...

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Five Minutes With Houston Lawyer and Film Producer Derek Potts

by Bob Valleau on August 19, 2020

Derek Potts has always been a film fan. Today, Potts combines his career as a successful litigator--he founded his now national law firm in 2001 out of two rooms as a solo practitioner—with that of...

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“Bohemian Rhapsody” | A Royal Treat

by Rita Cook, President North Texas Film Critics’ Awards on November 6, 2018

Starring: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Mike Myers I’ve loved Queen and Freddie Mercury for as long as I can remember. And I wondered how such...

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Red Carpet: David Spade Movie Premieres, Filmed in Corsicana, TX

by Ashley Allen on September 11, 2018

Corsicana residents recently walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of “Warning Shot,” which was filmed in their hometown. The September 6th premiere, held at the prestigious Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills,...