Taylor Sheridan's 'Landman' Opens Round Top Film Festival Debut

The first episode of “Landman,” the new Texas-shot series from “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan, will open the inaugural Round Top Film Festival on November 7 at 6:30 p.m. Series co-creator Christian Wallace will be on hand for a post-screening question-and-answer session.

“Landman” stars Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, Demi Moore and James Jordan in a tale of business and romantic struggles in the West Texas oil fields. The series, filmed in Tarrant, Weatherford and Young Counties, will stream on Paramount+ beginning November 17th.

The Round Top Film Festival takes place November 7-10 at Festival Hall and the 550 District in downtown Round Top.

Other films in the program include the documentary “Dolly Parton: Bigger Hair, Bigger Heart”, the main film “Sheepdog” with Vondie Curtis-Hall and Virginia Madsen in the main roles and the final film “Behind the Lines”, a documentary based on Andrew Carroll's bestsellers ” Letters of a Nation,” “Behind the Lines,” and “War Letters,” all of which focus on historically important correspondence.

There will also be a screening of Richard Linklater's 2016 'Everybody Wants Some', with cast members Temple Baker and Will Brittain taking part in a question and answer session. Also screening is the 1995 film Apollo 13, with a question-and-answer session with co-screenwriter Bill Broyles Jr. and novelist/Texas Monthly contributor Stephen Harrigan.

The documentary “Takin' Care of Business” follows the journey of guitarist Randy Bachman, one of the driving forces behind the bands The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, in search of his beloved 1957 Gretsch guitar, which was stolen.