Selected Writing on Film, Culture & Personal Matters

  • Reality Bites, Looking Back at The Real World Austin: Austin’s film community shaped the reality show and vice versa

    Austin Chronicle, July 22, 2024

  • Filmmaker and FIlm-Educator Paul Stekler Says Goodbye to UT

    Austin Chronicle, May 6, 2022

  • Forgetting – and Remembering – the Alamo

    San Antonio Express News, July 9, 2021

  • How Serendipity, the 1986 World Series and believing in possibilities changed my filmmaking career

    Current: News for People in Public Media, Oct. 11, 2021

  • How UT’s Tom Schatz Shaped Austin’s Film Scene

    Austin Chronicle, Aug. 13, 2021

  • Lawmakers must save the Texas Film Industry

    Houston Chronicle, March 19, 2021

  • How to Kill the Texas Film Industry

    Fort Worth Star Telegram, April 26, 2017

  • Documenting New Orleans; And Putting ‘Getting Back to Abnormal’ in Context

    Cultural Vistas -Magazine of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2014

  • His Presence was a Lovely Thing: James Welch 1940-2003

    Austin Chronicle, August 22, 2003

  • The Ten Greatest Texas Documentaries

    Texas Monthly, March, 2013

  • Bill, James & George’s Excellent Adventure: Back in ‘The War Room’

    Documentary (International Documentary Association), Summer 2012, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 10-11

  • Reality Candidates: Documentaries on the Campaign Trail

    Documentary (International Documentary Association), Fall 2008, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp.23-30

  • Tom Cohen and Peter Davis' 'The Campaign'

    Documentary Magazine, July 1, 2002

  • Lost Weekend: The Mummy Returns… to Pearl Harbor (and Other Tales of Woe

    The Texas Observer, Aug. 17, 2001, Vol. 93, No. 16, pp. 22-24

  • How to Steal the Presidency Without (Having to See Like You’re) Really Trying

    Texas Observer, June 22, 2001

  • All the Pretty Pictures: All the Pretty Horses reviewed

    Texas Observer, February 16, 2001