Silicon Hills
Silicon Hills is a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies in the Austin metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley, but refers to the hilly terrain on the west side of Austin. High tech industries in the area include enterprise software, semiconductors, corporate R&D, biotechnology, gaming, and a variety of startup companies.
Austin, Texas
Austin has been the location for a number of motion pictures, partly due to the influence of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film. Films produced in Austin include "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974), "Songwriter" (1984), "Man of the House", "Secondhand Lions", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2", "Nadine", "Waking Life", "Spy Kids", "The Faculty", "Dazed and Confused", "The Guards Themselves", "Wild Texas Wind", "Office Space", "The Life of David Gale", "Miss Congeniality", "Doubting Thomas", "Slacker", "Idiocracy", "The New Guy", "Hope Floats", "The Alamo", "Blank Check", "The Wendall Baker Story", "School of Rock", "A Slipping-Down Life", "A Scanner Darkly", "Saturday Morning Massacre", and most recently, the Coen brothers' "True Grit", "Grindhouse", "Machete", "How to Eat Fried Worms", "Bandslam" and "Lazer Team". In order to draw future film projects to the area, the Austin Film Society has converted several airplane hangars from the former Mueller Airport into filmmaking center Austin Studios. Projects that have used facilities at Austin Studios include music videos by The Flaming Lips and feature films such as "25th Hour" and "Sin City".