Above Left to Right: Cade Bennett who stars as Bo Pilgrim, Brian Ramirez, Unit Production Director, and Producer, and Jalyn English, Producer
The NTCC Webb Society, affiliated with the collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association, has just released its 2020 film trailer on the life of Bo Pilgrim. PILGRIMage, a Story aBOut Northeast Texas will premiere in February as the ninth feature-length film of the Webb Society, and Honors Northeast in as many years.
The trailer can be accessed here.
Brian Ramirez, the son of Carlos and Eunice Ramirez of Mount Pleasant, has served as the editor for both the trailer, and the movie. The 100-minute film has currently reached a pre-production phase, with Ramirez employing Adobe Pro, and Adobe Premiere, installed by NTCC computer services. As Unit Production Director, Ramirez was a highly intuitive and well-connected leader, who completed 52 of 54 scenes last August with members of the Webb Society, and Honors Northeast. He was a foremost promoter of the need to overcome the obstacles associated with filming in the pandemic summer of 2020.
The local Webb Society has received remarkable support both this year and last from a regional composer, and former head of NTCC computer services, Kenny Goodson. Goodson has brought both of his areas of expertise together to create an extraordinary weave of symphonic, and for the case of Pilgrim, southern Evangelistic sound.
Cade Bennett, the entering Cypress Bank Scholar of Honors Northeast, stars in the trailer and the film as Northeast Texas’s most noted Fortune 100 entrepreneur. The film alludes to a noteworthy moment in 2008 when Pilgrim’s Pride was the number-one chicken producer of the world.
Jalyn English, the college’s first James and Elizabeth Whatley Honors Endowed Scholar, is the film director. English has presented aspects of the film culture at NTCC at five different venues, including the 2020 virtual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council, and the Webb Society State Meeting last March in Austin.
The film last summer received special support, and some last-minute organizational thrust from Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery of Scroggins, patrons of Honors Northeast, the NTCC administration, and the family of Andrea and Julio Reyes of Hughes Springs.
The eight other Webb/Honors Northeast films, all on topics concerning the history of Northeast Texas, can be found by clicking here.
