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Austin Film Meet Annual Thanksgiving Potluck
Monday, Nov 22 – Party starts at 7pm Celebrate Thanksgiving with your film family too! As indies, we have a lot to be thankful for. Join us for our annual Thanksgiving Potluck to be held at a member’s home. Always a good time. Filmmaking is a lot like a potluck, the success depends on team [...]
Bogart in BEAT THE DEVIL, Sunday!
Film Societeers! Hot on the heels of AFS’s screening of Humphrey Bogart in THE DESPERATE HOURS this week, the Alamo Cinema Club presents Bogart 2 years earlier in BEAT THE DEVIL, John Huston’s shaggy-dog quest story about international smugglers failing to get much smuggling done. Or something like that. I was thrilled when the Cinema [...]
Robert Rodriguez Forms Indie Company
Robert Rodriguez is forming Quick Draw Prods., a new venture that will develop, produce and fully finance indie films in partnership with Gigi Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment and Michel Litvak’s Bold Films. Multi-picture deal calls for action-oriented, commercial fare. Affinity Intl. will handle foreign sales. “This new venture allows us to develop, greenlight and produce films [...]
TFPF Recipient Greg Kwedar Producing Rwandan Documentary
From Greg Kwedar, member and TFPF recipient in 2009: I am excited to share my passion for a story of hope from Rwanda, rewriting the history of horrible genocide, into the ultimate comeback story. This is an epic comeback story. I’m producing a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan national cycling team in their bid [...]
TFPF Recipient Bob Byington nominated for Audience Award – Vote now!
The venerable IFP has teamed with Slated (makers of the film festival software) to announce a new award, a kind of cross-festival Audience Award that will nominate 5 films from a list of 25 audience award-winners from festivals in the U.S. and Canada. BOB BYINGTON’s feature HARMONY AND ME, an audience favorite at several festivals [...]
Hunter Gatherers Video Trailer
Big congrats to former Austin Film Society interns Landry Gideon and Ben Powell for their superb work on this video trailer for Capital T Theatre‘s production of Hunter Gatherers, running now until November 6. Get tickets!
BEST WORST MOVIE Partners With New Video For Dvd And Digital Release
Award-Winning, Critically-Acclaimed Documentary about the “Worst Movie Ever Made” Available on Multiple Distribution Platforms Beginning November 16 New York, NY – September 15, 2010 – How many people can claim they starred in the worst movie ever? Michael Paul Stephenson will forever be known as the screaming, whining, ten year-old who saves his family by [...]
AS LONG AS I REMEMBER: AMERICAN VETERANOS on KLRU
Edited by AFS member Anne Lewis, AS LONG AS I REMEMBER: AMERICAN VETERANOS is airing on KLRU this coming Monday, September 20 at 9:30 pm. The film is about 3 Vietnam veterans from south Texas: visual artist Juan Farias, author Michael Rodriguez and actor/poet Eduardo Garza. It contains a scene beautifully shot by Lee Daniel [...]
Production Scheduling & Budgeting Workshop with Susan Kirr
Back back popular demand, SUSAN KIRR’s annual workshop!
Your script is the blueprint for your film. Your budget is the blueprint for how you will most efficiently get the money you have up on the screen. How do you budget a film? We’ll discuss building a schedule and then using the schedule to build the budget. We’ll also touch on working with the various unions (SAG, WGA, DGA, IATSE and Teamsters) and making the best deals to st…retch your dollar. Although the workshop will be geared toward feature film budgets, many of the concepts discussed will also be applicable to shorts and documentaries. Ongoing Q&A throughout the workshop, so bring all your questions!
Paul Stekler announced chairman of UT’s Radio-Television & Film Department
Documentary filmmaker and longtime UT faculty member Paul Stekler was announced the new chair of the Radio-Television and Film Department on Monday, August 16th making him the first working filmmaker to fill the role. Stekler’s documentaries on American politics include, LAST MAN STANDING: POLITICS, TEXAS STYLE, GEORGE WALLACE: SETTIN’ THE WOODS ON FIRE, winner of [...]
