| Cast | Character | Filmmakers | ||
| Wylie Maercklein | Frank Herne | Directed by | Austin Hice | |
| Marta McGonagle | Laura Villa | Written by | Wylie Maercklein | |
| Austin Hice | Louis Callahan | Austin Hice | ||
| Roland Uribe | "Ruby" Rubio | Executive Producers | Austin Hice | |
| Brad Koester | "Tough Guy" Ralph | Wylie Maercklein | ||
| Lee Irving | "Gun" Tommy | Producers | Carlo Eugster | |
| Ken Edwards | Lester Chapeau | Chris Ragland | ||
| Amanda Phillips | Mary O'Rourke | Director of Photography | Scott McCauley | |
| David Blackwell | Barry Goldwater | Costume Designer | A. Clare Capper | |
| Robert Works | M | Original Music | Geanie Stout | |
| Wade R. Ingram | "Hard Mac" | Special Effects | Doug Field |
SYNOPSIS
The year is 1953: The Korean War has just ended and Frank, a young soldier, returns home to take his friend Louis up on a job offer in a small desert town. However, Frank discovers that the position has dried up and with it, Louis' relationship with his boss, local crime lord, Ruby. Each step Frank takes into Louis' world finds him more entangled in a nationalist secret that promises to bury them both.
The Land of Shadowed Sand is the noir portrait of a small Texas town in the 1950s, suffering under a wave of nationalist sentiments at the trailing end of the McCarthy era. Hardboiled and intense, the story careens through the lives of the ensemble cast, everyone doing what they can to keep their lives and morality in tact. It is the latest film from the team at Lettered Union Pictures (THE LARKSHEAD SOCIETY) and Los Angeles based director Austin Hice.
The film features an ensemble cast including Marta McGonagle (Believe in Me, Blue Sombrero), Ken Edwards (The Life of David Gale, Spy Kids 2), Amanda Phillips (Sin City) and David Blackwell (Dazed and Confused) along with powerful special effects by Doug Field (Sin City).