Tuesday’s presenter, Phillip Thomas, entered the Dallas film industry in 1970 after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. He started work at a Dallas PBS station as a documentary filmmaker for Jim Lehrer’s “Newsroom.” That experience led him to freelance as a director/editor cameraman, and by the late 70’s was directing national commercials and filming the Rolling Stones’ “Some Girls Live” concert. Phillip shared several of his films, including “Bobcats in my Backyard” which has quite a YouTube following. His areas of renown include time-lapse and aerial cinematography and have been utilized in productions which include an IMAX film for The Science Place, Oliver Stone’s “The Doors,” films for the Canadian Park System, and Garden of the Gods.

January 21 2020.Exchange