All Entries in the "Festival News" Category
Sundance – The Last Detail
Another typical festival day. Up at 6 and in line at the box office by 6:30a. The place was packed and when it opened at 8a, the line barely moved. A woman came by selling a ticket to the 9a screening of Luv at the Egyptian, which I really wanted to see, so I bought [...]
Sundance Freebies
One of the fun things about film festivals is the freebies. Besides the bright yellow water bottles and the L’Oreal mini-makeovers, we were offered the chance to take a photo on a specific theme, download it at the Canon place, and get free tickets. The tickets were a bit overhyped as a “Ron Howard film” [...]
Sundance: Told ya so…
Unless you’re also a party-goer, time at Sundance is divided into three activities: watching films, standing in lines, and putting on and taking off gloves, hat, scarves, balaclavas, gaiters, Yaktrax, etc. The good thing about standing in line is that you have plenty of time to read the free magazines, like EW or Daily Variety. [...]
From Sundance: Time travel?
Mark Duplass is well known to Austin audiences. He stars in the Sundance entry Safety Not Guaranteed, directed by Colin Trevorrow. It’s one of those films where you really want things to work out, no matter how illogical the world would have to become. We all loved it. Seeing a movie at 8:30 in the [...]
From Sundance: Kid-Play
David and Nathan Zellner have produced a fascinating look at a little girl who has experiences without a coherent context to put them into as she tries to make sense of her world. Someone once said that children are born savages, and it is the parent’s duty to civilize them. Makes sense to me, and [...]
TAKE SHELTER Hits Austin
Our friends at Stuck On On are at it again! Parke, Lyman and Allison are the post-production powerhouse behind SLACKER 2011, but before they took that crazy project on, they worked with Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund recipient Jeff Nichols on his new feature TAKE SHELTER opening Friday, October 28th in Austin. One of the reasons [...]
Texas Films at Austin Film Festival
In addition to films that AFS has directly supported through our programs, there are a host of Texas-made films gracing the upcoming Austin Film Festival. Keep these homegrown films in mind as you build your AFF schedule. Want more info? Click the titles for links to the AFF screening info and check out Slackerwood for [...]
AFS Alumni at the Austin Film Festival
The 18th Annual Austin Film Festival begins this Thursday and runs October 20 – 27 with panels, screenings and parties throughout Austin. We’d like highlight those films selected to screen by filmmakers that have been supported through the Austin Film Society’s filmmaker programs like the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund (TFPF) and the Docs-in-Progress and Narratives-in-Progress [...]
Lights. Camera. Help Begins Tonight!
Did you read Carrie’s post about PARADISE? If not, check it out and then head out to Lights. Camera. Help., the world’s first film festival dedicated entirely to nonprofit and cause-driven films, starting tonight! Now in their third year in Austin, Texas, this 3-day event gives films-for-a-cause the attention they deserve by putting them up [...]
ITVS Indies Showcase
2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the Independent Television Service (ITVS), one of the largest sources of funding for independent filmmakers. In recognition of this milestone, ITVS is launching the ITVS Indies Showcase, a FREE online film festival running from July 25 to September 23, 2011 in honor of the extraordinary contributions of independent filmmakers [...]
