Poyser’s LOVERS OF HATE Premieres in Sundance Film Fest U.S. Dramatic Competition

The Austin Film Society is proud to announce that Bryan Poyser‘s newest film, LOVERS OF HATE, has been selected for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Competition. Poyser serves as Director of Artist Services, administering the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund and other programs that help Texas filmmakers, while pursuing his own filmmaking. He wrote and directed DEAR PILLOW (2004) and “Pleasureland” (2001), and wrote and produced THE CASSIDY KIDS (2006) with the University of Texas Film Institute. LOVERS OF HATE, a dark comedy that follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman, stars Chris Doubek, Alex Karpovsky and Heather Kafka.

“For three years, Bryan has been a tireless advocate for hundreds of Texas filmmakers in his role as AFS Director of Artist Services,” said Rebecca Campbell, Executive Director of the Austin Film Society. “We are thrilled and gratified that he is getting his day in the sun.”

John Pierson, AFS Advisory Board member, University of Texas at Austin film professor and independent film distribution expert, said, “It goes without saying that being selected for Sundance gets harder and harder with the proliferation of independent features.  So it is quite an achievement that Bryan Poyser’s LOVERS OF HATE will premiere there.  But even more impressively – and like Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez before him – Bryan’s film has been slotted in the most prestigious section of all, the Dramatic Competition.  From Soderbergh, Tarantino and Kevin Smith two decades ago to SIN NOMBRE, HUMPDAY, and PRECIOUS just last year, this high profile program is where many of the industry’s top filmmakers have launched their careers.”

The Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic and Documentary Competition films are available at www.sundance.org/festival.

Austin Film Society promotes the appreciation of film and supports creative filmmaking by screening rarely seen films, giving grants and other support to emerging filmmakers, and providing access and education about film to youth and the public. Through Austin Studios, which AFS opened in 2000 in partnership with the City of Austin, AFS helps attract film development and production to Austin and Texas. Gala film premieres and the annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards raise funds as well as awareness of the impact of film on economy and community. The Austin Film Society is ranked among the top film centers in the country and recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and Directors Guild of America.

For more information on Austin Film Society, visit www.austinfilm.org.

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