Jason A. Raschen is a Houston-based award-winning film producer and a permanent fixture in Houston’s independent film scene. He has lived in the Houston area for over 25 years. His films have been selected and have screen at numerous film festivals around the world, including The Houston Cinema Arts Festival. His body of work includesContinue Reading
Summer Interview Series – Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson is a Texas based actor who took a non-traditional route to enter the film industry. He has been a part of projects ranging from commercial to feature films like Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. He was very gracious to spend some time talking to Boomtown Film Festivals about the most important things an aspiringContinue Reading
Summer Interview Series – Cassie Hay
The benefits of having multiple skills, the Texas film industry, women as directors, and more. We touched on all the important topics with Cassie Hay, Director, Writer, and Producer of The Liberators. The Liberators was your first feature, but you’ve worked a lot on other productions, mostly as an accountant or location scout. How didContinue Reading
The Value of the Short Film
Authored by: Danielle Nicole Husband (Film Programmer of Boomtown Festival) The first time I attended a writing workshop it dismayed me to learn that we were expected to write short stories when all I longed to do was turn the stories in my head into brilliantly crafted novels. It wasn’t until I started to digContinue Reading