April 29, 2024

Made In Oklahoma Narrative Features

Take a look at some of the biggest made in Oklahoma Features debuting at deadcenter 2016!

Electric Nostalgia

Electric Nostalgia

When: 6/09 – 9:45pm , 6/11 – 2:15pm

Where: Harkins Bricktown

ELECTRIC NOSTALGIA is the first feature film from writer/director/cinematographer Jacob Burns, and a perfect culmination of the vision and storytelling he has honed over the years with his outstanding short films, several of which played deadCenter.

 

Great Plains

Great Plains

When: 06/10 – 8:45pm , 6/12 – 6:30pm

Where: Harkins Bricktown

GREAT PLAINS is a dramatic thriller about a mother and her boy running from a violent, abusive step dad. The film is directed byBlair Hayes (BUBBLE BOY) and filmed on location in Oklahoma.

Tara Buck Pierce (TRUE BLOOD) stars as a tough Oklahoma cowgirl trying to raise and protect her son Kipp, played by newcomer Spencer Mabrey. After her new husband Tommy violently attacks her one too many times, she grabs Kipp and escapes, driving west down the old country roads – with dreams of California and starting over.

 

Heartland

Heartland

When: 6/11 – 5:30pm,  6/12 3:45pm

Where: Harkins Bricktown

HEARTLAND is a wonderfully tense family drama directed by Maura Anderson, who production managed the Oscar nominated independent film, WINTER’S BONE. The film is co-written and produced by Oklahoma native Velinda Godfrey, who also plays the lead role.

HEARTLAND tells the story of a young Oklahoma artist who lands back in her mother’s stifling household after her girlfriend dies, but finds temporary escape in a reckless weekend affair with her brother’s girlfriend.

 

O Brother!

O Brother

When: 6/11 – 7:30pm, 6/12 – 8:30pm

Where: Harkins Bricktown

O’ BROTHER! is a wild comedy starring comedian Spencer Hicks as Michael, the Mayor’s Chief of Staff who is caught on an adultery website and loses his wife and job in the public scandal. His estranged gay brother Luke (Lance McDaniel) comes to the rescue and hides Michael with the drag performers Kitty Bob Aimes and Norma Jean Goldenstein at his gay bar and dinner theater, The Boom. While Luke is dealing with his boy toy employee Angel (Del Murphy), Michael is quickly whisked away by his ex-con best friend Terry (Mathew Alvin Brown). Terry leads Michael on an adventure through strip clubs, bachelor parties, cock fights and gang warehouses, where he will either die in a gun fight with a Mexican gangster (Wilson Navas) or reconcile with his brother and join his true love (Stephanie Pena).

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