the Flatland Film Festival
August 10 - 12, 2006
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Panel Participant - Drew Mayer-Oakes

Drew Mayer-Oakes is the director of the San Antonio Film Commission and was recently featured in “Texas Monthly‘s“ Texas filmmaking feature, "25 Most Important People Behind the Scenes." He graduated from the UT-Austin film school in 1985 and has worked in sports production, independent films, commercial production, post-production and film commissions. Films on which he has worked include The Road to Galveston (1996), Sidekicks (1992) and Redboy 13 (1997).
Mayer-Oakes made his first film on 8mm film in 1972 as a fifth-grade student at Rush Elementary School here in Lubbock. His father, the late William J. Mayer-Oakes, regularly made documentary films in his work as an archaeology professor at Texas Tech University, and both his father and the 1979 short film Shoes on the Road  served as inspirations to pursue his interest in film. Shoes will be screened as an invitational short on Saturday evening during the Flatland Film Festival. Mayer-Oakes was recently named vice president of the  newly formed Texas Motion Picture Alliance, currently serves on  the board of the  San Antonio Advertising Federation and holds a seat on the San Antonio College RTF Advisory Board.

Drew Also restored David Cagle's classic flatland film
"Shoes on the Road" which will be screened on Friday evening
before "jumping off bridges"

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