Pictorial Pictures
Some stories get told in parentheses — mentioned in passing, then set aside. We make those the whole picture.
An independent production company in Austin, Texas, founded by writer/director David Lykes Keenan.
A town too small to hide in.
1988, small-town Texas. A basketball prodigy, a troubled best friend, and a long-estranged gay father who returns. A story of fathers and sons — biological, adopted, and chosen — shot entirely through a single 50mm lens.
Independent horror proved a small film can own the culture. Independent drama deserves the same shot.
Over the past decade, bold independent studios turned modest genre films into phenomena — critical darlings that broke out at the box office and reshaped what audiences expect from cinema. Pictorial Pictures exists to win that same territory for the intimate drama.
We champion under-represented stories and the writers who carry them: queer lives, small towns, late bloomers, people the industry files away as an aside. Then we give those stories the craft, the marketing conviction, and the theatrical ambition usually reserved for a midnight premiere.