Photos of victims inspire 'Texas Killing Fields'

VENICE, Italy - September 9, 2011

"Texas Killing Fields" was screened Friday at the Venice Film Festival.

Canaan Mann delivers an elegant crime thriller drawing on actual crimes haunting the fields near a small Texas town where the bodies of the victims - of all ages and from all social classes - were found over several decades.

Her father, director Michael Mann whose works include the 1992 film "The Last of the Mohicans," produced "Texas Killing Fields."

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