Hudgins, Bob

Before joining the Texas Film Commission as director in December 2005, Bob Hudgins was Deputy Director of the Illinois Film Office for eight years. Projects that he helped bring to Illinois include Road To Perdition; Spiderman 2; Batman Begins and the Fox TV series Prison Break. From 1985 to 1998, he was a freelance film location manager on projects including Field of Dreams; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Michael (filmed in central Texas); Wayne’s World; Rudy; and Groundhog Day. As the director of the Texas Film Commission, Bob is using his years of experience and his extensive network of industry contacts to increase film and television production in all parts of Texas. This year, Bob has been pleased to welcome a number of major projects to Texas, including Season Two of Prison Break, the new NBC series Friday Night Lights and an untitled feature from director Kimberley Peirce, her first in Texas since the Academy Award-winning Boys Don't Cry.