subUrbia director Richard Linklater cut his directoral teeth on a $3,000 Super8 feature entitled It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books (recently acquired for distribution via Miramax by his friend Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Productions) before stepping into the international spotlight with his $23,000 cult classic Slacker. His first studio feature, Dazed & Confused, received widespread critical acclaim, surpassed the cult status of even Slacker (playing every night for more than a year in his home town of Austin, Texas), became an industry hit and secured him a first-look production deal with Castle Rock Entertainment. His next feature, a daringly unconventional romance entitled Before Sunrise, cemented his position as one of the most slyly observant, humane and cinematically gifted writer / directors of our time.

Linklater continues to live and work in Austin, Texas, where he is the lynchpin of its burgeoning independent film community. He founded The Austin Film Society in 1986, and was responsible for securing innumerable screenings of rare, classic and underground films. In 1995 he established the Texas Filmmaker's Production Fund and grant program (which assists starting Texas filmmakers with that most crucial of all resources - money), booking both a special advance screening of Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn, and an entire film festival hosted by Quentin Tarantino, as fundraising events (he even convinced Tarantino to host the actual American premiere of Pulp Fiction in Austin to raise money for the Film Society).

Richard's next project is The Newton Boys, and stars Matthew McConaughey (whom he discovered) in a period piece about a gang of 1920s Texas bank robbers who orchestrated the most successful robbery spree in U.S. History, yet were virtually ignored by the media because of their non-violent, business-like tactics.