DALLAS FILM COMMISSION

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we sit down with two members from the Dallas Film Commission: Tony Armer, the commissioner, and Andrew Vela, a project specialist. We pepper Tony and Andrew with questions throughout the episode. What does a film commission office actually do? How do offices differ at the state and city levels? How do they help local filmmakers? And who’s responsible for incentives? Andrew and Tony (who is also one of the founders of the Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida) also answer our many questions about festivals. Should you go to your local film festival? Is it worth submitting to the bigger ones? And which festivals should you even submit to? In between all our questioning, we also learn how Tony and Andrew came to work at the Dallas Film Commission and of the various responsibilities of their roles within it.

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast.
0:08.0	A collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and Agust.
0:14.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:22.1	This episode is sponsored by Phylix, a California-based lighting company with close to 40 years
0:27.8	of in-house lighting and expertise.
0:31.0	Phylix is known for their LED color franelles ranging from the smallest Phylix Q3 to the
0:37.4	largest Phylix Q10, and they set the gold standard in the motion picture industry with precise
0:44.2	color science, brightness, and beam shaping.
0:48.0	Phylix recently launched a new LED color lipsoidal called the Phylix G3, which can make razor
0:55.9	sharp cuts.
0:59.8	Today we're doing something different.
1:02.0	We have, as our guests, two of the primary people from the Dallas Film Commission, Tony Armour,
1:07.4	the Commissioner, and Andrew Vila, the project specialist.
1:11.6	We're looking forward to learning a lot today.
1:14.6	Thank you, Andrew, and Tony.
1:16.4	Thank you for having us so much for having us, excited to be here.
1:19.3	So we'd like to start by asking our normal question, which is, how did you get to where
1:24.4	you are today?
1:25.4	Is there something as a kid that you like to do that tells you you want to be a film commissioner?
1:31.6	What's your story?
1:32.6	That's an interesting question, because not a lot of people know what the film commission
1:37.4	is or what these jobs mean.
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