The Texas Border Is the New Frontier of Film

The Texas Border Is the New Frontier of Film

In the movie The In Between, set in Eagle Pass, a group of five athletic high school boys jog down a dirt road. To their left is a thick brush of reeds that line the Rio Grande. To their right is the steel border wall, looming ominously.  “Hey, the Border Patrol, dude!” one says as a car approaches. “He’s like, ‘What the heck?’” another says as they step aside to allow the unmistakable green-and-white pickup to pass.  Later, on the Mexican side,…