All Entries Tagged With: "SXSW"
AFS @ SXSW
The 2010 SXSW Film Festival begins on Friday and runs March 12 - 20 with screenings, panels and parties throughout Austin. AFS is sponsoring 4 screenings, participating in the trade show and staff members are appearing on panels. In addition, many filmmakers we have supported are in the festival line-up. AFS is all over SXSW!
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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 [...]
Global Zone Music Festival, Live from Austin Studios!
Videoranch 3D is bringing in some of the Austin area’s finest, as well as bands from both coasts, Europe, and Brazil to perform live in the Videoranch 3D environment and produced at Austin Studios. Acts include Del Castillo, Carolyn Wonderland, Kashmir, Asleep at the Wheel, Lal Meri, Vander Lee and many more. For those who [...]
QUADRANGLE at New Directors/New Films
Amy Grappell’s phenomenal festival run with her 2009 TFPF-funded short doc QUADRANGLE continues with a stop at the prestigious New Directors/New Films at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art next month.
IFC acquires THE OVERBROOK BROTHERS
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to John Bryant’s THE OVERBROOK BROTHERS a road movie about two brothers searching for their biological parents, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this year.
The film’s cast includes Nathan Harlan, Mark Reeb, Laurel Whitsett and Steve Zissis. “Brothers” was produced by Chris Ohlson and Bryant. Tom Borders exec [...]
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 [...]
SXSW 2010 Film Festival
Deadline: November 5 ($40), December 3 ($60), December 11 ($100)
The SXSW Film Festival is now accepting entries for the 17th Annual Film Festival to be held March 12 -20, 2010 in Austin, TX. The SXSW Film Conference and Festival is a uniquely creative environment featuring the dynamic convergence of talent, smart audiences and industry heavyweights. [...]
3 TFPF Recipients To Screen on Independent Lens
Major congrats to filmmakers Karen Skloss, Michel Scott and Keith Maitland for gaining slots on the national PBS doc series Independent Lens!
ITVS’s Beyond the Box blog ran the full line-up for the 2009-2010 season and Skloss’s SUNSHINE, Scott’s THE HORSE BOY and Maitland’s THE EYES OF ME each made the list. All three received grants [...]
Watch Hell on Wheels For Free on SnagFilms
Now you can watch all of former TFPF recipient Bob Ray’s rip-roaring roller derby doc HELL ON WHEELS on the SnagFilms website. You’ll just have to sit thru a commercial up front.
Expect to hear a lot more about roller derby and its recent Austin-birthed resurgence (which Bob managed to capture - warts, brusies, damaged egos [...]
Austin Film Society Announces Members Showcase at SXSW, March 14 & 15 at The Hideout
The Austin Film Society (AFS) is pleased to present two programs of exciting, funny, eye-opening new short films from some of our 500-plus Filmmaker members at Hideout Coffeehouse & Theater (617 Congress Avenue) during the SXSW Film Festival, which runs from March 13 - 17. The selections will screen in two programs, on March 14 [...]
