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A new independent publication

Houston has been making films for decades.
Most people don’t know their names.

Third Coast Cinema covers the productions, the crews, and the people building Houston film.

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ON SET◆BEHIND THE CREDITS◆HOUSTON, IN FRAME◆THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE PICTURE

Now on the Third Coast

Stories from a film city
in motion.

A working front page for the stories we are following now: productions, policy, people, and the stubborn case for making movies in Houston.

The people who make the picture

On the set of Inertia, the frame belongs to the camera operator, boom team, performers, grips, and every pair of hands just outside it. This is the Houston film story we want to tell.

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Houston has a five-year plan for film. Now comes the hard part.

The city wants more productions, stronger training, and a working soundstage by 2030. The ambition is real. So is the distance between a plan and an industry.

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Photo: Erika Ubias / Midnight High

Midnight High, under the lights

A Houston production with a full press archive gives us a better starting point than hype: the work, the faces, and the image-makers who shaped it.

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Photo: Tasha Gorel / Rice University

The programmer watching 500 films

Michael Robinson came up through a Rice projection booth. Now he is shaping the Houston Cinema Arts Festival's curatorial voice.

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Photo: Stryde Studios / Inertia

What the finished frame leaves out

A working set is choreography: lens, light, sound, performance, and a dozen quiet corrections. We want to name the people making those corrections.

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A Houston feature, one hard choice at a time

Occasional field notes from Finding Jazz, centered on the craftspeople, locations, and practical decisions behind an independent production.

Notebook coming soon →

Preview edition: images are shown with source and photographer credits for editorial review. Publication permissions will be confirmed before public launch. Third Coast Cinema originals are marked as forthcoming.

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Opening Statement

Third Coast Cinema Is Launching.
Here’s Why Houston Needs It.

Houston has the films, the crews, and the stories. It is time the city had a film press that treats them like an industry.

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The Editorial Desk

Three ways into the picture.

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In Production

Where the work is happening now.

Shoot coverage, set visits, production diaries, and dispatches from the people making films across the Gulf Coast.

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Profiles

The names behind the names.

Directors, grips, critics, editors, actors, and craftspeople in conversations that go deeper than the press kit.

Meet the people →
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The Case for Houston

A film city hiding in plain sight.

Essays and arguments about what Houston has, what it needs, and why the industry should pay attention.

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ABOUT TCC

No red carpet required

Film journalism
from the inside.

Third Coast Cinema covers the productions, crews, and people the rest of the press ignores. Based in Houston, it is built for readers who care how the picture gets made—and who makes it possible.

Houston film, from the inside.

The Third Coast Dispatch

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