All Entries in the "Artist Services" Category
View from Mars
When I was kid my favorite films were always the ones that created new and amazing worlds. I loved the fantasies, the westerns and the science fictions. I saw Star Wars when I was four and got hooked on the cinema. By the time I was seven I could quote the entire animated version of [...]
Festival Dispatch: Quadrangle at Sundance & Rotterdam
Another in our on-going series of festival dispatches, this time a day-by-day update from Amy Grappell, who took her 2009 TFPF-funded documentary short QUADRANGLE to Sundance and Rotterdam.
Texas Independents’ Day, Mar. 2
Local PBS affiliate KLRU brings together the 3 Austin-based documentarians who will screen their films on Independent Lens this year for a discussion and screening on Mar. 2.
Texas Represents at This Year’s Sundance!
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 [...]
Festival Dispatch: The Horse Boy at IDFA
Michel Scott, TFPF recipient for his Sundance premiere doc THE HORSE BOY, reports on his adventures at IDFA in November.
Grappell’s QUADRANGLE To Premiere at Sundance
AFS Filmmaker member Amy Grappell’s short documentary, QUADRANGLE, will be making its world premiere in the Shorts Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and having European premiere at the Rotterdam Int. Film Festival.
Grappell, a director, writer, producer, actress, and casting director, has been active in the Austin film community for the last decade. Grappell [...]
Harmony and Me Takes Denver Audience Award
Bob Byington’s HARMONY AND ME won the Starz People’s Choice Award at the recently-wrapped Starz Denver Film Festival.
B-Side Takes DiP Alum TRUST US
Alex Karpovsky’s TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP has been picked up for distribution by B-Side.
The Long Reach of Funny Ha Ha
Which Austin filmmaker’s first film is listed as one of the decade’s top 10 influential films among titles like THE LORD OF THE RINGS, SHREK and THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST?
Manos de Madre at MACC
A recipient of a 2009 TFPF grant, the short documentary MANOS DE MADRE will screen for free at the Mexican American Cultural Center on Tuesday, November 17th at 7:30pm.
