in which a Fort Worth native returns from L.A. for Christmas to find that the family he left is tearing apart at the seams. Then he discovers his grandmother has been placed in a nursing home and decides to bring her back for Christmas against his family's wishes.
"It didn't matter if it was a documentary or a narrative film," Cain says."He was always about story structure and what's at the heart of this. What does he want his audience to feel when they walk out of that story. He was a mentor to so many filmmakers who helped them to understand the importance of it."
Huckabee didn't stop creating once he or a film's director yelled cut. He produced music throughout his life. During his early days in Austin, he played as the drummer for the incendiary, groundbreaking punk band The Huns. He drew, painted and took up photography up until his final days. There were"no boundaries to his creativity," Cain says.
"He's one of these characters who was always making art," Horn says."If he wasn't working on a script or a film set, he was drawing. He was dying of cancer and for the rest of his life, he spent two effing days doing a painting of me and my girlfriend. That always impressed me, that he was always creating.
Great article on Fort Worth’s homegrown filmmaker.