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Filmmaker and singer-songwriter Scott Ballew’s new album, <a href="https://lahondarecords.com/collections/all/products/scott-ballew-rio-bravo-vinyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rio Bravo</a>, is out now through La Honda Records. A Texas football star turned film director turned junkie turned musician, Austin-born Ballew has a life story so compelling that a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEkWxtLjD-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mini-doc</a> was created in 2023 to chronicle his enticing metamorphosis. Ballew has worked as Yeti’s Head of Content, directed shorts featuring Ryan Bingham, J.B. Mauney and Margo Price, and recently made a documentary on Terry Allen and a film, All That is Sacred, chronicling the hazy creative stratosphere of Key West in the 70s. The latter is a glimpse of the lives of American literary giants Thomas McGuane and Jim Harrison and superstar Jimmy Buffett. (Photo by Johnny Musselman.)

Scott Ballew

Film

How Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Started My Music Career

Aharon Keshales&#8216; new film, the action drama South of Heaven, starring Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly, is out now in theaters, on VOD and on digital through RLJE Films. Keshales was a film critic and a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University before he co-wrote and co-directed his 
first feature, Rabies, in 2010. Rabies (aka Kalevet) was Israel&#8217;s first horror film and it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2013, Keshales co-wrote and co-directed Big Bad Wolves. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Saturn Award for Best International Film. The film was also named &#8220;The best film of 2013&#8221; by Quentin Tarantino.

Aharon Keshales

Intimate Spaces, Brutal Landscapes

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

Jim Hemphill

Underrated/Overlooked: Jim Hemphill on The Duel

Sam Peckinpah