Texas Represents at This Year’s Sundance!
Agnes Varnum | Jan 12, 2010 | Comments 0
Chris Doubek in LOVERS OF HATE
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 21st and several filmmakers who are alumni of the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund (and even an AFS staff member) have been invited to screen films at the festival:
- Two TFPF alumni will screen films in the US Dramatic Competition: Ryan Piers Williams’ THE DRY LAND, starring America Ferrara (UGLY BETTY) and AFS’s Director of Artist Services Bryan Poyser’s LOVERS OF HATE, which was shot in Austin and Park City, Utah, Sundance’s home.
- Amy Grappell received a 2009 TFPF grant for post-production for her short film QUADRANGLE, which screens in Documentary Shorts program.
- Dallas filmmaker Clay Liford will present his short film MY MOM SMOKES WEED at the festival (his new feature EARTHLING just recently screened as a Narrative-in-Progress)
- Sundance veterans David & Nathan Zellner, recipients of multiple TFPF grants, will present their short film FIDDLESTIXX, which was shot at Austin Studios.
Other films with Austin connections at the festival include CYRUS, directed by former Austinites Jay & Mark Duplass and Anthony Burns’ SKATELAND, produced by Austin-based Reversal Films.
AFS staffers will be at the festival to celebrate the success of all of these talented Texans (and former Texans). Be sure to look for us at the Outreach Table in Filmmakers’ Lodge on Wed, Jan. 27th from 10am-1pm!
Filed Under: AFS News • Artist Services
About the Author: Agnes Varnum is the communications manager of the Austin Film Society, as well as a freelance writer and film programmer. She is the primary contributor to doc it out.
