ChamberMade

Six Man, Texas

Hola folks,

I'm Tom Chamberlain and I've been an actor and filmmaker in Austin since 1990.  The blog name, ChamberMade, is also my production company's name.  The title of this entry is the title of the documentary film I'm helping along in the birthing process.  It is the brainchild of Alan Barber, who is much better known in the decorative tile industry (Architera), but has put a tremendous  amount of time money and effort into making this project happen. 

Six Man, Texas is the story of the small towns in Texas that play the 6-man version of the national sport of Texas and their struggle to survive in a world whose economic realities seem to work against them.  Alan and his partner, Laura Toups started this project in 2000 and last year, they brought me and editor Mike Scannell on board to help figure out where the movie was and what else needed to be done to complete it.  Almost a year and maybe 30 t0 40 more hours of tape later we were able to craft a first assembly from the 150 hour total with the help of assistant editor Dipu Bhattacharya and submit it to Toronto and the IFP.  Mike is in the process of refining that first cut into a rough cut, while the rest of us are putting promotional and publicity materials together.  We hope to have our website up within a week www.sixmantexas.com.

Later, I'll post about my latest acting gig and later than that, about my past credits.

Here's my imdb.com  page if you can't wait.

More later.

Welcome

08:50, 2006-Jul-7 .. Posted by WhenLightningStrikes

Tom,

Robert. Welcome to this site. I've annoited myself hospitality officer.

Good for you and your crew. I am puzzled though as to what the national sport of Texas is. What is six man? I'm intrigued.

You seem to have pushed this thing pretty far so far. Any response from the indy community?

Why thanks, and happy to be here...

09:20, 2006-Jul-7 .. Posted by tomas13

Robert, the national sport of Texas is football, of course. ;-) This movie is about the little towns that play the 6-man version of it and the meaning of the team and the school to the town. It was eye opening. When a small town loses it's school, it isn't long before it is gone. The school is the community center, the glue that holds it together and gives the place identity.

Yeah, we are pretty far along. As for the reaction of the indy community it has been positive so far, but then again we've only shown it to a few friends we know who've done this themselves. We are about to be a lot louder about this project. Thanks for the welcome. I haven't been able to browse around yet, so I don't know what you guys are up to yet. We being doing that over the next few days.

Finish you doc

08:36, 2006-Aug-9 .. Posted by Anonymous

Tom, we meet when you video taped Marriage is Forever for Mary Alice. Just wanted to let you know that in Oct. a group from L A that I belong will conduct a finish you doc workshop in Austin. This may or may not be of help, but it will bring in national talent to Austin for three days. More info at www.nalip.org
Rupert Reyes