University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. US News consistently ranks Texas the best public university in the state and, in its 2006 rankings places it 17th among all public research universities in the U.S.http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/natudoc/natudoc_pub.php. It is considered one of eight Public Ivies. The university is one of the largest single-campuses in the nation by enrollment, with nearly 50,000 undergraduates and graduate students attending.

High-tech growth and film in Austin

The University has been helpful in providing people for the high tech growth of

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Austin, the capital city located in the heart of Central Texas.

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Austin - Central Texas

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Michael Dell, former student and current Chairman of the Board of Dell Inc., kept his successful company, that he started out of his dorm room, in Austin, keeping the city and the university at the forefront of technology.

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Austin has been the location of a number of movies, including Secondhand Lions, Waking Life, Spy Kids, Dazed and Confused, Office Space, The Life of David Gale, Man of the House and Slacker. This combined with a growing independent film community has garnered the Radio-Television-Film program a good reputation as a film school. UT has spawned several well-known directors, including Robert Rodriguez (an RTF alumnus), Tim McCanlies, Catherine Hardwicke, and Wes Anderson. Austin hosts the annual Austin Film Festival and the South by Southwest Festival, both of which draw diverse films from all over the world, including many from RTF students.

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Secondhand Lions - Waking Life - Spy Kids - Dazed and Confused - Office Space - The Life of David Gale - Man of the House - Slacker - Film school - Robert Rodriguez - Tim McCanlies - Catherine Hardwicke - Wes Anderson - Austin Film Festival - South by Southwest

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Lately Austin's film industry has been rapidly growing, and in 2004 was named #1 in Moviemaker Magazine's annual "Top 10 Cities for Moviemakers." Capitalizing on this, the RTF department has begun a private production company called Burnt Orange Productions, seeking to use the talents of upper division and graduate RTF students in shooting independent feature films for distribution.

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2004 - Burnt Orange Productions

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