Host Enrique Suarez (left) and David Blue Garcia laugh with the audience about the time when Garcia needed extras to sit in the back of a truck for the movie “Tejano” Thursday, at the PlainsCapital Bank Theater in the Student Union on the Edinburg campus. “We were shooting this one scene in Harlingen and we needed, like, extras to sit in the back of the truck for this one scene for ‘Tejano.’ … So, they went across the street to this bar and they found two guys in the bar and said ‘Hey, you want to be in a movie?’ and they said, ‘Sure.’ So, they came, I met them, they went in the back of the truck and they were just there in the back seat silently sitting for like, all the time it took to shoot the scene, [I don’t know] who they are and you just make friends with people like that.” Garcia said. Adrian Hernandez/THE RIDER Harlingen native, Emmy Award-winning film director, cinematographer, and producer David Blue Garcia speaks with fans after the movie Thursday, at the ENTRE Film Center in Harlingen. “ I would say it’s an awesome experience, you get to have your questions answered by the director himself. I just wish ENTRE Film Center does more events like these,” attendee Pierre Lozano said.Michael Flanagan(left) speaks with Harlingen native, David Blue Garcia behind closed doors Thursday, at the ENTRE Film Center in Harlingen. “The director of photography was from McAllen, I called Rick, I told him the downlow, I’m going to Bulgaria to make Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and he, at first he was like, no that too short notice, what if we mess up? What if we don’t do a great job? Nah, my wife is not going to let me. … I was like Rick…youre doing this man, we’re gonna go to Bulgaria we’re two Mexicans going to clean up the mess,” Garcia said. Adrian Hernandez/THE RIDERTexas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Tejano, Emmy Award-winning film director, cinematographer, and producer David Blue Garcia, speaks to the audience about how he started filmmaking and storytelling Thursday at the PlainsCapital Bank Theater in the Student Union on the Edinburg campus. “ I just, like, commandeered my family’s VHS camera and just started making films at my friends,” Garcia said. Adrian Hernandez/THE RIDER
