Director Iliana Sosa (right) looks at life in El Paso in "God Save Texas: La Frontera."
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Director Iliana Sosa (right) looks at life in El Paso in "God Save Texas: La Frontera."
Mandatory Credit: Courtesy HBO via CNN Newsource

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‘God Save Texas’ offers three homegrown views of life in Lone Star State

Wedding the deeply personal to the political, “God Save Texas” turns three filmmakers loose on their hometowns, using their memories and current realities to explore the justice system, race and environmentalism through the complex prism of the very conservative Lone Star State. With Lawrence Wright’s book as connective tissue, it’s a pointed look at what director Richard Linklater calls “hometowns and the American consciousness.”