Crime After Crime (2011) Crime After Crime is the award-winning documentary that tells the story of Debbie Peagler, a survivor of brutal domestic violence who was wrongfully convicted in the murder of her abuser and spent over 25 y
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Where the Story Came Together: Hell or High Water and the halflife* Nob Hill Cabin Some of the best stories about filmmaking happen behind the cameras. For Hell or High Water — the 2016 neo-Western that would go on to earn four Aca
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From the Desert to the Big Screen: halflife* and Xeno Every so often, a project lands on our desk that reminds us just how wide-ranging this industry can be. Xeno (2025) is one of those — a big-swing sci-fi adventure produced by Ke
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Second Unit, Big Energy: halflife* and Disney's Lemonade Mouth Not every project halflife* takes on is dark and intense. Sometimes it's a Disney Channel movie about five misfit kids who form a band in detention — and it's just as fun t
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Lemonade Mouth

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Force of Execution Steven Seagal's fourth collaboration with director Keoni Waxman, Force of Execution is a gritty, grindhouse-style crime thriller starring Seagal alongside Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo, and Bren Foster. Filmed and se
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Force of Execution

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Blood Father (2016) Blood Father is a gritty action-thriller starring Mel Gibson as a recovering alcoholic ex-con who reunites with his estranged teenage daughter (Erin Moriarty) to protect her from a Mexican drug cartel. Directed
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Longmire Longmire is the neo-Western crime drama based on Craig Johnson's bestselling novels, following Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) as he polices fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming — a landscape brought to life not in Wyo
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Longmire

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House of Cards House of Cards is the Netflix political thriller starring Kevin Spacey as the ruthlessly ambitious Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his equally formidable wife Claire — the series that put Netflix's original progr
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Marvel's The Avengers (2012) Before it became one of the highest-grossing films in history, Marvel's The Avengers began its journey right here in Albuquerque — principal photography officially kicked off in the city in 2011, with J
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The Odd Way Home (2013) The Odd Way Home is a road-trip drama filmed on location across New Mexico's high desert, following Maya (Rumer Willis), a young woman fleeing an abusive relationship, and Duncan (Chris Marquette), an autist
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Dark Around the Stars Dark Around the Stars is a character-driven drama directed by Derrick Borte, filmed on location in New Mexico. The screenplay, written by Mark Kassen, was notable enough to land on the 2005 Black List — Holly
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On Location in Santa Fe: halflife* and Jane Got a Gun Westerns have a way of finding their way to halflife* — and Jane Got a Gun (2016) gave us the chance to work alongside another high-profile cast on New Mexico soil. The film, a
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Shot Caller (2017) Shot Caller is the gritty crime drama that gave Nikolaj Coster-Waldau — best known as Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones — one of the most transformative roles of his career, as a successful businessman whose D
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From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series is Robert Rodriguez's television expansion of his and Quentin Tarantino's cult-classic 1996 film, following the fugitive Gecko brothers as a bank robbery gone wrong se
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Frank (2014) Frank is the critically acclaimed black comedy following Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), a young musician who joins an avant-garde band led by the enigmatic, giant-headed Frank (Michael Fassbender, delivering an acclaimed perf
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The Night Shift The Night Shift is NBC's ensemble medical drama following a team of ex-Army doctors running the overnight ER at a fictional San Antonio hospital — bringing battlefield-tested skills, and the weight of their wartime
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Gold (2016) Gold stars Matthew McConaughey — in a striking physical transformation — as a down-on-his-luck prospector who teams up with a geologist to chase a massive gold discovery, loosely inspired by the real-life 1990s Bre-X mi
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War on Everyone (2016) War on Everyone is the pitch-black buddy-cop comedy from writer-director John Michael McDonagh ( The Guard , Calvary ), set and filmed entirely in Albuquerque. Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña star as tw
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Bearing Witness: halflife* and The Forgotten Bomb Not every project halflife* takes on is built for popcorn and box office. Some are built to matter in a different way — and The Forgotten Bomb is one we're especially proud to have
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Forgotten Bomb

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Behind the Scenes with an Underdog Story: halflife* and Spare Parts Some of our favorite work happens away from the edit bay entirely — camera in hand, sitting across from the people who bring a story to life. That was the case with
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It All Begins Here

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