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Gemini Movie Ranch is the independent filmmaking venture of Eric H. Heisner, an award-winning screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker with a longtime affinity for the Western genre. He and his wife left Los Angeles in 2020, selling their home there to buy a ranch in Llano, Texas (he's based out of Austin), where he's since been building physical movie sets by hand for Western productions.
His literary background feeds directly into the ranch's film projects: he's the author of the West to Bravo series (four novels following protagonist Holton Lang, averaging 4.3 stars across 2,700+ ratings), the Conch Republic adventure series (including Island Stepping with Hemingway and Errol Flynn's Treasure), and standalone titles like Along to Presidio, Wings of the Pirate, and T.H. Elkman. Gemini Movie Ranch's flagship project is a feature-length Western adapted from one of these bestselling novels, alongside an independent Western series — with behind-the-scenes posts (such as one documenting a project called "El Vaquero") showing the ranch's set construction and production work in progress.
The Patreon page frames the venture as a deliberate move away from Hollywood's studio system: rather than competing for roles he didn't want, Heisner is using the ranch to produce Western content entirely on his own terms, describing the work with the line "It's all fun, with a good job of work!" He funds the effort through Patreon, offering supporters exclusive behind-the-scenes access and benefits starting at $5/month, letting patrons follow the ranch's construction and film production as it happens.
