{"id":346247,"date":"2025-10-31T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346247\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:27:10","slug":"the-writer-short-film-stars-yellowstone-actors-at-lone-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346247\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Writer\u201d Short Film Stars Yellowstone Actors at Lone Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Lone Star Film Festival gets underway in Fort Worth, one short film is already making waves with its exploration of family, ambition, and the shadows of the past. Following its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival,\u00a0\u201cThe Writer\u201d screens on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 4:45 p.m. inside The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth\u00a0as part of the festival\u2019s shorts block, with a post-screening Q&A to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Austin Glasser and Luke Maddenwald, the short stars Jefferson White of\u00a0\u201cYellowstone\u201d, Neal McDonough, also from \u201cYellowstone and \u201cTulsa King\u201d, and Sara Paxton, \u201cAquamarine,\u201d \u201cGood Girls,\u201d \u201cBlonde,\u201d \u201cWeapons\u201d, alongside Sherri Saum, \u201cThe Fosters,\u201d \u201cGood Trouble\u201d and Kariana Karhu.<\/p>\n

The film tells the story of Henry (White), a self-isolated screenwriter haunted by the ghost of his father (McDonough) in a lonely fishing cabin. Pressured by his manipulative agent, Lynn (Saum), and recent Hollywood success, Henry pours himself into scripts for an action franchise he cares little about. As his isolation strains his marriage to Zoe (Paxton) and his bond with daughter Amber (Karhu), the story crescendos to a raw confession of faults, fears, and regrets \u2014 a reckoning with what truly matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019The Writer\u2019\u00a0is a beautiful script, and the team put together a remarkable cast,\u201d White says. \u201cAustin is an incredibly committed, generous artist, and it was an honor to collaborate with him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The short also carries a distinctly Texas pedigree behind the camera. Fort Worth native Ben McBurnett served as Director of Photography, building a career from grip trucks to major projects in the Taylor Sheridan<\/a> universe, \u201cYellowstone,\u201d \u201cLioness,\u201d \u201cLandman\u201d, with work featured on Paramount+, Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, and more. Executive Producer Red Sanders, through Red Productions, lent further local expertise, continuing his work expanding the Fort Worth film scene with collaborations that span from Kendrick Lamar to the streaming series\u00a0\u201cFruitcake Fraud.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Glasser, the Texas connection runs deeper than the crew. A fourth-generation filmmaker and Dodge College of Film and Media graduate, he self-financed\u00a0\u201cThe Writer\u201d\u00a0to bring one of his personal stories to life. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had the opportunity to film in Texas, and it just feels right that we get the chance to show in Texas as well,\u201d Glasser said in a release. \u201cMy biggest wish for those who see the film is to not be afraid of following their dreams, but that they can always find another path to get there and that our happiness, along with the happiness of others, can be our greatest guide.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Lone Star Film Festival gets underway in Fort Worth, one short film is already making waves…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,2677,12043,185,4084,7371,7372,9730,119259,53,5921,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,16544],"class_list":{"0":"post-346247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-artists","10":"tag-arts-and-culture","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-festival","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-fwtx-staff","16":"tag-lone-star-film-festival","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-style","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-top-story","21":"tag-tx","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-yellowstone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115470430623824426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}