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Stephen Mims

Director and screenwriter, Stephen Mims, screened a rough cut of his Kentucky Fried Movie styled film "One Eye Peeled" at last year's Spindletop Film Festival. This Austin based filmmaker shot, edited and then screened a short film, "Lifetime Subscription," shot on digital video during the first day of the 2001 festival without first meeting his cast and crew. Mims premiered his feature film "The Perfect Speciman", which he wrote and directed, at South By Southwest.

Mims also teaches an advanced production course at Austin Film Works, a private school he established. The Austin resident teaches the first finer points of movie production by having students actually make a full-length feature film. A former film-production professor at the University of Texas, Mims quit his university job in 1993 to start Austin Film Works. Noted director and screenwriter Robert Rodriguez studied under Mims.

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