Okie Shorts – OKC Friday

The most popular shorts program at the deadCenter Film Festival each year is Okie Shorts. Okie Shorts is a collection of short films made by Oklahoma filmmakers, typically filmed in Oklahoma. Because the filmmakers are local, they all come to the screenings at the festival and stay after to talk to audience members about their films. And, the filmmakers’ family and friends pack the theater, creating a raucous, supportive environment for premiering a short film.  One of my all-time favorites Okie shorts is Course of Food, a short documentary that won best Okie Short in 2015. The film was created by restauranteur Marc Dunham, owner of Nashbird Chicken, and filmmaking duo Christopher Hunt and David Tester of 1577 Productions. Hunt and Tester created the documentary about coach Eddie Sutton called Eddie: Cost of Greatness, which premiered at deadCenter.  In Course of Food, the film traces the life cycle of food by following an organically raised pig from Waynoka, Oklahoma all the way through to its final destination as an entrée on a plate at Ludivine Restaurant here in Oklahoma City. Andy Bowen, the organic pig farmer who also served as Mayor of Waynoka, became a break-out star and ended up
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