Dallas Filmmaker Timothy Stevens wrote, directed, edited, and shot his first feature narrative during the pandemic with a small group of Dallas-based artists. The Ghost Lights world premieres at the Lone Star Film Festival on Friday, November 12, 2021, 8 p.m. at the Downtown Cowtown at the Isis Theater. Tickets are available here: https://www.goelevent.com/LSFF/e/TheGhostLights
In mid 2019, Stevens was helping develop a paranormal docu-reality show, and the pilot was going to be about the Marfa Lights. He put in much in-depth research, including interviews with witnesses who claimed to have intense, up-close encounters with the lights. Ultimately, the show was dropped, but the research he did became the inspiration for The Ghost Lights which he wrote within a year ago.
“The Ghost Lights is the culmination of a dream- our first feature film, made during the most challenging year of our lives, during a pandemic, with a crew of 4 people, 10 days, over 1,000 miles from Dallas to Terlingua and back, a new-born at home, and lots of coffee,” said Timothy Stevens.
This narrative feature sci-fi drama was fully funded through Indiegogo, a crowdfunding campaign, raising a little more than $5,000 with most of the funders coming from the Marfa and Terlingua area. It stars DFW-based artists including Billy Blair, Katreeva Phillips and John Francis McCullagh. Stevens is a filmmaker favorite at the Lone Star Film Festival. This is his third film and the others included a narrative short film called The Resurrectionist (2016) and a documentary feature film called Let’er Buck (2018).
The film’s second screening will be at the Starlight Theatre (631 Ivey Rd, Terlingua, TX 79852) on Friday, December 3, 2021 at 9 p.m. Free admission for this West Texas premiere and reservations will be available on the Starlight Theatre’s website. Follow Spectrograph Films’ social media to get updated on when reservations become available.
