Plaza Classic Podcast: Plaza Classic Podcast 8: "Sissy Spacek is coming to El Paso!"

Plaza Classic Podcast 8: Sissy Spacek is coming to El Paso!

Academy Award winning actor and Texas native Sissy Spacek is the first announced guest at the 2024 Plaza Classic Film Festival!

Advisory Committee member Craig Holden joins hosts Stephanie Valle and Lisa Elliott to discuss Spacek's filmography, including Coal Miner's Daughter, which she is set to introduce on Saturday, July 27 at 7pm.

Holden -- himself a writer and producer -- also talks about the film he produced that will be screened at the festival.

Craig Holden's received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana in 1986, and then worked for two literary agencies in New York City, eventually becoming a film rights agent. His first novel, The River Sorrow, sold to Delacorte Press, and was subsequently translated into a dozen languages. His third novel, Four Corners of Night, received the Great Lakes Book Award for fiction in 1999, and hit the USA Today bestseller list. His other novels include The Last Sanctuary (Delacorte), The Jazz Bird (Simon & Schuster), The Narcissist’s Daughter (Simon & Schuster) and Matala (Simon & Schuster). He has taught at the University of Toledo, the University of Michigan, and New Mexico State University, and currently serves as the Assistant Vice President for Development at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. He is also a partner in the film development company Empty Bottle Productions.