Richard Linklater’s participation in the anthology series “God Save Texas,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, brought him to trace his high school football teammates to the Texas prison system.
Based on Lawrence Wright’s book, “God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State,” native directors Alex Stapleton, liana Sosa and Linklater painted their own portraits of Texas. Linklater’s return to his Huntsville roots took him on a process of search and discovery in which he determined an excessive amount of his high school football teammates ended up unemployed or incarcerated by the Texas prison system.