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1938 — the present
The record, honestly drawn: Fort Wayne has never been a movie town in the Hollywood sense, and its film history is the more interesting for it. One feature made here became a landmark of American independent cinema and won at Sundance. One was made here by a local industrial filmmaker in 1960 and premiered at the Embassy. The rest of the record is a hometown production layer — commercial and industrial shops that occasionally reached for a feature — and, in the digital decades, a long tail of micro-budget independents shot in houses, schools and a doomed movie theater. Local lists of "Fort Wayne movies" habitually mix together films shot here, films merely set here, and films that only mention the city; this chapter keeps the three apart, and gives the most famous claim of all — that Hoosiers was filmed here — the examination it has earned.