All Entries in the "Bryan's Blog" Category
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.
Pecos Falls in Austin & Bastrop
Matt Holloway’s PECOS FALLS, which screened as part of AFS’s Narratives-in-Progress series back in July, will have a free screening at the Dobie Theater this coming Thursday, November 19th at 7pm. It screens again in Bastrop on Sunday, November 29th at the Upstart Media Arts Center at 2pm, also for free. Matt will be at [...]
St. Nick at Thessaloniki
David Lowery’s acclaimed feature ST. NICK will make its international premiere at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival later on this week.
I’ll Come Running On Demand
Spencer Parsons’ debut feature I’LL COME RUNNING, a two-time TFPF recipient, is now available on demand from IFC. The film was shot in Austin and Denmark and stars the up-and-coming Melonie Diaz (RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, BE KIND REWIND). It premiered at the LA Film Festival and played heavily on the festival circuit, drawing raves from [...]
People in the Shadows at AAAFF
The Austin Asian American Film Festival kicks off this Thursday and runs through the weekend with screenings at the Alamo South Lamar, the Union Theater at UT, the MACC and other venues. UT’s Middle Eastern Studies Department is co-sponsoring the US premiere of former Austinite and 1999 TFPF recipient Bani Khoshnoudi’s feature documentary PEOPLE IN [...]
2 by Kyle Henry at Salvage Vanguard Micro-Cinema
Highly accomplished and multiply-talented Austin filmmaker Kyle Henry will present AMERICAN COWBOY and UNIVERSITY, INC at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, as part of their new Micro-Cinema series.
Who Would Do That to Aurora?
The great Houston-based microcinema the Aurora Picture Show recently suffered a distressing setback - a burglary at their lovely office in Houston’s museum district. Here’s a sad picture of their missing video monitor on their blog, Behind the Screens. I conducted a TFPF workshop on that monitor back in the Spring. Grr!
No matter, though, Aurora [...]
Orson, Ant Farm at Houston Cinema Arts Fest
An exciting new event on the Texas film festival scene, the inaugural Houston Cinema Arts Festival kicks on Nov. 11th with a screening of AFS Artistic Director Richard Linklater’s ME AND ORSON WELLES, with Linklater in attendance.
Gretchen on DVD
Two-time TFPF recipient Steve Collins’ feature debut GRETCHEN is now available on DVD courtesy of Watchmaker Films. Pick it up at Amazon.com or rent it on Netflix.
Steve received a 2002 TFPF grant for the short-film version of the feature, with the title GRETCHEN AND THE NIGHT DANGER, which I’m presuming is one of the [...]
The Physics Teacher Premieres at SF DocFest
Two-time TFPF recipient Scott Harris will premiere his short documentary THE PHYSICS TEACHER at the San Francisco DocFest later on this month. The film was a 2006 TFPF recipient and screened in its feature-form as a Doc-in-Progress in 2007. Scott also re-purposed it for an online video competition and won $5,000 for its 1-minute version [...]
