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Letter from Waco

A humorous portrait of “the West’s most southern city,” a place governed by four principles: race, religion, death, and football.

Premiere Date

August 12, 1997

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Winner

1997 South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) - Feature Documentary Award

Don Howard

Producer

Don Howard is a filmmaker and editor from Texas, and an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches film and video editing. He was a founding member of the New Orleans Filmmakers’s Collective. He founded One Big Eye Film/Video Post Production Services in Austin in 1994. Howard has been the editor for a number of narrative and documentary films, including Cultivating Charlie and Dazed and Confused.