Austin's film community shaped the reality show and vice versa
: 16 seasons in, the era-defining reality show came to the indie film capitol of Texas, and neither was quite the same again.It was nineteen ago that I got a desperate early morning call. A group of young women living downtown were on deadline to finish a short film about a band trying to make it at South by Southwest and their Avid editing program had frozen.
Murray and Bunim pitched MTV on “a hot, sexy drama about young people – without having to pay any writers,” with plots emerging from conflicts found within hundreds of hours of footage. MTV bit and filming began in a Manhattan loft over the Memorial Day weekend in 1991.
The kids were very young, pretty immature, not much into working very hard, and partying and fighting a lot, no doubt why years laterIn the reality show blogs, I was dismissed as the maker of many films, none of which they’d ever heard of., had his mom die back in Boston, and got together with a smitten Melinda. Wes drunkenly hooked up with local girls to make Joanna jealous, and of course, they also got together . Lacey fought with Rachel, who served as a nurse during the Iraq War.
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