6:30 PM
to 8:23 PM
Strongman
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Stanless Steel can leg-press 10,000 pound dump trucks, drive nails through boards with just his bare hands, and can even bend a U.S. penny in his fingersÑa feat no one else in the world can accomplish. These are acts, he feels, not just of physical strength but of mental and emotional strengthÑdemonstrations of the kind of change possible through will-power and perseverance. Yet as Stan reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships begin to test these strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around himÑincluding his own.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
Tags Documentary Feature
6:45 PM
to 8:30 PM
Awaydays
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Paul Carty is 19, good-looking, funny, clever Ð and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on clubs, records, football and gigs. It's at a Bunnymen gig that he meets Elvis. Elvis changes everything.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
Tags Narrative Feature
6:45 PM
to 8:11 PM
The 2 Bobs
34 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Just as they finish their groundbreaking violent video-game masterpiece, the two gaming legends known as THE TWO BOBS discover that their precious game-software has been stolen... and with it, their livelihoods, genius reputations, everything they own. To get back their game--and their lives--The Two Bobs and their fellow-geek employees MUNCH, DOOFUS, and THE DARK PRINCE are forced to "turn detective" and plunge into the strange world of Christian Venture Capitalists, aged Dixie Mafia hoodlums, and bizarre Internet Spammers that inhabit Austin Texas. Just as all seems lost, The Two Bobs meet THE TWO JANES, ("Sisters Against Spam"), and in a surprising development, the Bobs/Janes tension-filled first date finally unravels the mystery of the stolen game and reveals the villain behind it, The SPAM KING, and his dastardly plan to use their groundbreaking software to build a nefarious Internet/Cable porn empire... The Bobs and their allies must stop The Spam King and get back their game at all costs.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:25 PM
New World Order
40 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About New World Order is a documentary about conspiracy theorists. The film is a behind the scenes look at the underground anti-globalist movement. This growing movement targets the annual Bilderberg conference, and the 9/11 attacks as focal points in the alleged global conspiracy.
Alex Jones, a celebrity radio host, and underground cult hero, is the main character of the film. The film chronicles Alex (of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), and four other conspiracy theorists, on their ceaseless quests to expose the 'massive global conspiracy' that they believe threatens the future of humanity.
Alex Jones, a celebrity radio host, and underground cult hero, is the main character of the film. The film chronicles Alex (of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), and four other conspiracy theorists, on their ceaseless quests to expose the 'massive global conspiracy' that they believe threatens the future of humanity.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:32 PM
Paper Covers Rock
10 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A gripping drama about Sam, a troubled young woman who loses custody of her six year-old daughter in the wake of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. As Sam starts on her path out of darkness and into recovery, she is confronted with a desperate fight to regain the most precious thing in her life, her daughter.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:30 PM
7:00 PM
to 8:45 PM
The Square
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Escaping the monotony of a loveless marriage in a bleak small town, Raymond Yale becomes entangled in an affair with the beautiful and troubled Carla. He goes along with Carla's plan to take her lowlife husband's cash from his latest crime and escape their mundane world, but things go horribly wrong. And that's just the beginning. In an escalating spiral of blackmail, kickbacks, cover-ups, arson and murder, they find themselves in a nightmare of unforeseen events stemming from their simple plan..
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Charlie Hewson, 'Where Are You Going, Elena?'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Elena is fed up with bringing people their food, but when she runs away from her waitressing job, the utensils chase her down. Will she escape forever, or will a tenacious pepper shaker win her back?
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Chris Gordon & Dan Lubell, 'America, Let's Go'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About Travel America, Agnieszka style. From New York to LA, Poland's brightest rising star hip-hops her way through a picture perfect postcard world of patriotic kitsch. America's newest pop sensation has arrived! Inspired by music and characters from Karen Odyniec's short film DEADLINE.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Don McCloskey, 'Mister Novocaine'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About In a fever dream where hands are people, one hand fights the pleasure of the bottle by telling his story through song.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Fleet Foxes, 'White Winter Hymnal'
41 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Alone in a dark wood, 5 lonesome old men sit and ponder the meaning of their solitude. But they are not alone on this cold winter night. For a man older than time itself stands ready and willing to change everything with one swift motion. And he does, setting forth a chain reaction causing the world to spin wildly out of control, the forest grows and shrinks, snow lifts from the ground to the sky, dead mushrooms rise and shrink back to the earth, and the 5 lonely men grow slowly back to their young selves. This animated music video captures the cyclical nature of the Fleet Foxes tune in a magical, fantastically beautiful way.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Gnarls Barkley, 'Going On'
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A young man discovers how to travel to another dimension, but he has no idea what he will find when he gets there, or how he will get back. His friends all want to explore, but one by one, the fear of the unknown overwhelms them, and they are too scared to continue with him. Eventually finding another soul to brave the porthole with him, they jump throughÉ
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:15 PM
I Love You, Man
134 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About The film centers on a man who, upon getting engaged, realizes he has no close male friends and must find someone to be the Best Man at his wedding.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Javelin, 'Soda Popinski'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The Sea Floor Sea Urchin Dance Troupe dance to Javelin's "SODA POPINSKI."
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Kaki King, 'Pull Me Out Alive'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About PULL ME OUT ALIVE is the music video for the lead single from Golden Globe-nominated musician Kaki King's album, Dreaming of Revenge. Co-directed by Edward Boyce & Doug Karr, with photography by Guy Godfree and animation design by Patrick Jasin, PULL ME OUT ALIVE was made without film camerasÑit consists of 5000 still photographs shot on Nikon D30s. There are no special effects; all of the light trails were created by hand, with up to eight individual light animators flashing LEDs and flashlights on and off over an eight second shot exposure.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Krista Muir, 'Leave Alight'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About With the flick of many switches, Krista Muir leads us out of the darkness with her powerful voice and resonant baritone ukulele. Light is the central character in this poignant performance piece.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Megachurch, 'Hyper Gospel'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The members of Mega*Church invite you to join them for a hyper-colored take on religious pomp and circumstance--joy, life, love, fabric, neon, baptism, and cookies!
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 8:50 PM
Music Videos
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Yeasayer 'Wait for the Summer'Director: Mixtape Club
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Tags Shorts Program
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Oren Lavie, 'Her Morning Elegance'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About The video animates the fantastic dream of a sleeping woman without ever leaving her bedroom, using her mattress as the canvas of the dream and her bed frame as the dolly of her journey.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Prefuse 73, 'Aborted Hugs'
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About An Ingenue is tormented by a Gentleman Caller, and her own sexuality in this expressionistic music video about paranoia, jealousy, filth, and rage.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Roots Manuva, 'C. R. U. F. F.'
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A boy's journey through a nightmare toy war, set to a track by Roots Manuva.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Talkdemonic, 'Duality of Deathening'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A robot lives alone in a tiny apartment. He's made a choice to be human, hoping that determination alone might allow him to make it so. He pretends to be a person, eating, laughing, talking with homemade dummies, all the while having no real idea why he's doing any of it. He figures there are just some things you do when you're human. He is given a vision. In the dream state he sees humanity for what it truly is, and realizes at once the error he's made. It isn't so bad, not being human.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 7:33 PM
Temposhark, 'Blame'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About The music track is about loneliness, frustration, anger and hope. The story in the animation evolves arounda boy who is trapped in the lonely inner city and he keeps on trying to stay strong with hope for a bettertomorrow.The song title is Blame from the debut album The Invisible Line, written by Robert Diament and Youth (Martin Glover) Distribution in USA through Defend Music
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Terp 2 It, 'F@ck This City'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Nerdcore rapper Terp 2 It hates the city of Orlando, Florida so much, he wrote the song 'Fuck This City' and then made a music video so everyone could feel and understand his hatred. Produced by internet comedy video group Studio 8, 'Fuck This City' turns the usual flashy hip hop music video conventions on their heads and smooshes you deep inside Terp's angry head. Yet lurking beneath the hearty mixture of no-holds-barred trash talk and abrasive imagery hides the goofy soul and wit of Terp 2 It. By the end of the video, you might find yourself wondering whether you should be more afraid for Orlando or for Terp, should the two ever cross each other's paths. 'Fuck This City' can be found on Terp 2 It's debut album The Freshest Dude from Studio 8 Records.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Dirty Hearts, 'Record Store'
Location Alamo Lamar 3
Location Alamo Lamar 3
About Inside a Small Record Store, a teenager steals the new "Dirty Hearts" album, which leads to an over the top chase sequence, after a run in, with a local officer.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Hidden Cameras, 'In The Na'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Pairing the gestures of contemporary dance with an ecstatically high-energy pop song, In The Na depicts a scientific experiment in hypnotism and human behavior gone awry.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The New Pornographers, 'Myriad Harbour'
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Hairband as interpreted by Fluorescent Hill.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Octopus Project, 'An Evening With Rthrtha'
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The music video "An Evening with Rthrtha" is a high-velocity psychedelic stop-motion animation made from thousands of photos on hundreds of layers using an eclectic array of analog animation techniques. The final result is a horrible/splendid array of bats, butterflies, that depicts "An Evening with Rthrtha".
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Saturday Knights, 'Count it Off'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About In a distinct Sesame street style, The Saturday Knights reinvent the kids show as a hip-hop singalong with puppets, numbers, kids and more.Shot on vintage tube cameras and with hand-drawn animation, this video is a blast to the past.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
The Sword, 'Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Under the light of a century old broken moon, a caravan of humanity's last survivors march through the civilized bones of wasteland earth to find one of "The Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians."
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Thunderheist, 'Jerk It'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Jerk it is our first music video, made for the band Thunderheist. It features skin giggling in slow motion, strobing animal prints, and a girl with a large rooster. After winning the band's contest, it premiered on pitchfork.tv. It has since received more attention than we ever imagined and for that we are humbled and truly grateful. We would like to thank Anna, Mike, Tristan, Caleb, Diana, Carey, Jennifer, Yoshiko, Eric, and Bronwyn for volunteering their time. Without them this video would not have been possible. We are also grateful to Grahm and Isis of Thunderheist and their manager Tash, and to all the bloggers and festival programmers who posted the video and took an interest in our work. Thanks!
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Tycho, 'Meridian'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter. Fundamentally, material composes all things and all phenomena are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance and can neither be created or destroyed. Hence, we are all made of only what came before us yet discretely conceived through form; we are all made of earth and sky and stars.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Tags Music Video
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Yeasayer, 'Wait for the Summer'
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Inspired by Yeasayer's polyphonic harmony and tribal sound, this video follows migrating beetles, cosmic apple orbits, and primal spirits through the cycles of the planets and seasons.
Tags Music Video
9:00 PM
to 10:27 PM
Medicine for Melancholy
17 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San FranciscoÑa city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:15 PM
to 10:38 PM
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
24 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Described by the New York Times as "Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv", Tj Jagodowski and David Pasquesi have become living legends in their field. Their performances of entirely improvised, character-driven, often hilarious and wholly original one-hour plays have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Exploring the folds of faith that underlie their relationship and the transcendental forces that govern their improvisation, TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP features an unforgettable live performance recorded at New York's Barrow Street Theater. Whether you're a student of improvisation or simply interested in the underpinnings of human imagination and the depths of mutual understanding, this journey will leave you laughing, guessing, and in awe of this altogether remarkable feat.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:49 PM
Blood Trail
8 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About At times war photographer Robert King resembles a heroic misfit straight out of the pages of Scoop, thrown into the heart of battle, struggling to adapt to the brutal environment he finds himself in. Occasionally comic, often touching, more often dark, Blood Trail, the tale of Robert King, is a unique and personal journey, a film which follows him over 15 years and through three wars.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:44 PM
Know Your Mushrooms
29 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, GRASS, GO FURTHER and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:51 PM
You Wont Miss Me
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:45 PM
to 10:56 PM
Monsters From The Id
27 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About The 1950's was an idealistic time in American History. It was also the Atomic Age where new technology promised to both save humanity as well as destroy it. All of these factors gave birth to the most prolific genres in film history, 1950's Sci-Fi Cinema. More then just little green men, 50's Sci-fi Cinema provided inspiration for the generation who achieved one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind; Spaceflight. Monsters From The Id weaves the intersecting themes of over 30 films in order to tell the untold story of the Modern Scientist and his role in inspiring a nation. The film continues to explore the psychological and cultural impact of 50's Sci-Fi cinema in America and asks, 'where is science inspiration found today?'
Tags Documentary Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:31 PM
ExTerminators
41 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About "Ex-terminators" is a black comedy centering on Alex (Graham), a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court ordered therapy. There she meets Stella (Coolidge), the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon; and Nikki (Heard), a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women will form their own 'silent revolution', wrecking havoc on the men of Texas.
Tags Narrative Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:20 PM
The Snake
21 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A no-budget romantic comedy -- without the romance. The Snake is a desperate cad who fixates on a troubled young woman, joins her support group, and enables her eating disorder. It only gets worse from there.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:30 PM
to 12:57 AM
Lake Mungo
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist. He discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice's secret past emerges. Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story weaved into a 'documentary' that illustrates how the dead can forever haunt the living.
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11:59 PM
to 1:50 AM
Ong Bak 2
60 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The first ONG BAK hit the world like a heat-seeking guided missile. A missile in the shape of Tony Jaa, touted as the new Bruce Lee and the can't-miss martial-arts superstar of his generation. This prequel, set in medieval Thailand, features Jaa as a young nobleman who masters many martial arts disciplines in his journey of revenge. Expect stand-up-in-your-seat excitement as Jaa flies through the air; twisting, turning and demonstrating the utmost contempt for the laws of gravity. And now that he has added a full range of martial-arts styles to his repertoire, Jaa is twice as deadly and twice as exciting.
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11:59 PM
to 1:31 AM
Zift
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About A Bulgarian neo-noir murder mystery about Moth, a man who is freed from prison on a wrong conviction. His quest for truth leads him into a diabolical city of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and bizarre characters. Through flashbacks, hallucinations and sensual encounters, Moth finally gets to the bottom of the conspiracy.
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11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Alexandria
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the distant future, a bottle is found deep inside the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Its contents unlock the secret of what happened to three men in a bookstore at the end of civilization, and their attempt to live on.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Cochran
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jim Cochran floats through his days dreaming about being somewhere else and reflecting on his past. He hates his job and despises the delivery truck he must drive. In his free time he finds solace in shooting clay pigeons at the local shooting range. In contrast to his delivery truck his shotgun is his favorite thing in the world and he considers it his 'nightly companion'. He also has a slight love affair with performing magic tricks, and practices them alone in his backyard. Jim's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
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11:00 AM
to 11:15 AM
Countertransference
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Countertransference" is a comedy which looks at the frustration and discontent that can arise during therapy--especially with an unbalanced therapist at the helm. Carla Carthrop is a shy, socially awkward woman with massive self-esteem issues. She works in an antique store and her professional claim to fame is being selected to manage the basement. The core of the film revolves around Carla's attempt to walk away from her dysfunctional therapist. It's an irreverent, psychologically loaded exploration of the therapeutic process.
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11:00 AM
to 11:02 AM
Hi Mom
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Hi Mom started out as a vague exploration of the filmmaker's view on her family, friends, and feelings, and ended up becoming a story about her mother. The video was shot on various consumer cameras, and includes stills either shot by the artist or stolen from the internet. She roped her family and friends into cooperating with her shoots without telling them what the final product would be. All camera work, sound, and editing was conducted by the artist. She is unaware of if her Mom has seen the piece.
Tags Documentary Short
11:00 AM
to 11:16 AM
HUG
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
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11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Isis Avenue
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Isis Avenue intimately documents a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's excavation of the home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA. Shot in a single-camera verite style, the unobtrusive and unanticipated nature of the film's process casts loss, absence and apathy as characters in the aftermath of an unknown woman's death. The pasts of the professionals who specialize in homicides, suicides, decomposition and hoarding cases are as hauntingly present as that of the departed. In an era of reality subjects, Isis Avenue stands in subtle opposition, in process and form, to the inevitable reality series soon to champion the subject of crime-scene cleanup. The entire filmmaking process was performed in 17 hrs 47 min; a conceptual sliver of time in the white light of Angelino anonymity.
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11:00 AM
to 12:21 PM
Reel Shorts 1
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Hug', directed by Khary Jones. Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
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11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Sunday Mornings
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About SUNDAY MORNINGS is a video about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town. The scene depicts the woman's slow progress from the front door to the bedroom. The video is about an independent person finding herself in a comical, yet simultaneously humiliating situation.
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11:00 AM
to 12:29 PM
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
26 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About In Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, filmmaker Bradley Beesley visits and explores an oddball American phenomenon: that of the prison rodeo. He journeys with his cameras to Oklahoma State Prison - the only remaining U.S. prison rodeo that is actually located on penitentiary grounds - and watches, cameras rolling, as ill-prepared male and female convicts risk their lives for the promise of cash and a brief spotlight.
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11:00 AM
to 11:04 AM
That's My Majesty
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Princess Moon has arrived in New York City on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is a busy architect with little interest in governing a magical realm. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
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11:00 AM
to 11:06 AM
Winter Lilacs
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Chet Harvey lives with his aging mother Bernadette. When faced with moving her to an assisted living home, Chet attempts to make his Ma' proud by getting a date with "a beautiful girl.
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11:30 AM
to 1:03 PM
Sorry, Thanks
28 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Upon visiting her ex's to collect her belongings, Kira returns anxiously to dating and immediately collides with the disheveled Max. Disaster looms when Max (already taken) decides to dabble in two new pursuits: an obsessive-tending interest in Kira, and the mystery of whether he may in fact be an ass. Kira, meanwhile, fights to win a job she's far too smart for, then sabotages her only meaningful romantic prospect when a friend lays it on the line. Shot in San Francisco's Mission District, featuring the comic duo of Wiley Wiggins & Andrew Bujalski (who plays the best friend on the frontlines of Max's emotional shortcomings), and introducing newcomers Kenya Miles & Ia Hernandez. "Sorry, Thanks" charts turmoil, deep fallibility and the wreckage of self-delusion. In a laughy kind of way.
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11:30 AM
to 12:39 PM
The Time of Their Lives
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About With a combined age of almost 300, Hetty, Rose and Alison love to share their impassioned concerns on everything from terrorism and global warming to sex, death and the meaning of life. But despite their unstoppable enthusiasm and disarming humour, all three women are not simply ready for death Ð they actively want to die.At the end of lives lived with passion and purpose, Hetty, Rose and Alison bring to the screen a rare perspective on old age. Surprising, poignant and at times very funny, The Time of Their Lives reveals the everyday mystery of how very old people experience life and the effects of age on their sense of identity and worth. Like first-hand witnesses who have gone ahead and report back from the edge of their own mortality, they tell us things of which no-one ever speaks.
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12:00 PM
to 1:30 PM
AMAC @ The Hideout: Austin School of Film
1 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Austin School of Film presents Brave Cinema 2009: No Censorship Here!--Award winning films from our Loud and Clear Youth Film Festival. Creative and brilliant shorts by our Featured Adult Filmmakers. Austin School of Film is a nonprofit independent film, art, and technology center that supports every aspect of production from idea to distribution. Our goal is to educate, train, and develop emerging artists of all ages to be active participants in shaping our 21st century culture
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12:00 PM
to 1:35 PM
Died Young, Stayed Pretty
28 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Died Young Stayed Pretty is the first feature documentary to take a candid look at the renaissance of North America's underground indie-rock poster movement spurred on by the launch of Gigposters.com. Picking up where punk left off, DYSP reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial & intensely visceral design work. Yaghoobian travels across US & Canada to offer a look into to the world of some of the giants of this modern subculture who have worked on posters for groups like Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and the list goes on. Under the guise of advertising for rocks shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen carry on public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd inside jokes.
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12:30 PM
to 2:01 PM
45365
21 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About '45365' (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Ð Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak and act for themselves, as themselves. These storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at everyday life in middle America.
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1:00 PM
to 2:00 PM
Creative Nonfiction
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Ella is a college student, but she's more focused on her pseudo-romance with her dorm mate Chris than on the screenplay she's supposed to be finishing for her Creative Writing class. Reality and fiction are indistinguishable as she tries and fails to differentiate her script from her increasingly awkward social life.
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1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
a'mare
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About ANDREA and FELICE are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water. Will their friendship survive the turbulent events that follow?
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1:30 PM
to 1:43 PM
Autopilot
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home Mark's family drifts in isolation, escaping the lazy afternoon, when reality circles back.
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1:30 PM
to 1:38 PM
Before the Sea
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
Tags Documentary Short
1:30 PM
to 1:35 PM
Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Illumination comes to a young boy at his grandfather's 95th birthday.
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1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip)
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
John Wayne Hated Horses
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About On a hot summer day, a father and his young son struggle with their differing ideas about masculinity, boredom, and the proper way to play with army toys.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:37 PM
Little Pumpkin
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the midst of his parents' divorce, a 5 year-old boy seeks out friendship with a gift his father left behind for him. The fact that the new found friend is a large pumpkin seems harmless at first, but Stephanie finds herself facing her own emotions, as her son grows more and more attached to the pumpkin in the absence of his father.
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1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Peter and Ben
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About As a young man, Peter visited the rolling lush green hills of a remote and hidden valley in Wales and chose to stay there permanently. Self-sufficient and alone, Peter was content. Then he met Ben. Peter found Ben, an orphaned newborn lamb, abandoned in a ditch. Now Ben has matured into a full-grown wooly sheep with ambitions to move into Peter's house with him. Peter, however, has other ideas. Peter and Ben is a touching and quirky story of how two "black-sheep" form an unusual and enduring bond.
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1:30 PM
to 3:17 PM
Reel Shorts 2
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'John Wayne Hated Horses', directed by Andrew Betzer. A father and his young son share a house, a yard, and very different ideas about masculinity and appropriate uses of army toys.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
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1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Sister Wife
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About DoriAnn is a Mormon Fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing ritual, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage and reveals an unexpected explanation for why she chooses polygamy.
Tags Documentary Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Tess and Nana
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Tess gets out of her grandmother's house for the day.
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1:30 PM
to 1:37 PM
Visit
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About NYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
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1:45 PM
to 3:40 PM
Daytime Drinking
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About After Hyuk-Jin gets dumped, he hangs around in a bar with his friends. Totally drunk, they decide to travel to console his broken heart.
Next day, Hyuk-Jin arrives at the destination but he finds out he is alone because his friends can't come due to a terrible hangover.
He encounters with strange couple and gets invited for a drink. Next morning, he opens his eyes on the middle of snowy way without his cell phone and wallet as well as his pants. A kind but somewhat weird driver offers him a drive and a drink again.
Now Hyuk-jin has to find a way to get out of the world's worst hangover and to end his drunken odyssey.
Next day, Hyuk-Jin arrives at the destination but he finds out he is alone because his friends can't come due to a terrible hangover.
He encounters with strange couple and gets invited for a drink. Next morning, he opens his eyes on the middle of snowy way without his cell phone and wallet as well as his pants. A kind but somewhat weird driver offers him a drive and a drink again.
Now Hyuk-jin has to find a way to get out of the world's worst hangover and to end his drunken odyssey.
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2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
AMAC @ The Hideout: Austin Film Society
2 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A program of short films from the Austin Film Society's community of filmmaker-members.
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2:00 PM
to 3:40 PM
Beeswax
26 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Long SynopsisThe story revolves primarily around a pair of twin sisters--Jeannie, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and Lauren. Same face, different bodies. Something like a legal thriller for anyone who finds 'legal thriller' to be an oxymoron, Beeswax is also a story about families, real and imagined, people taking care of each other when they want to, when they need to, when they ought to.
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2:00 PM
to 3:24 PM
Bomber
24 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About A bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping bombs on Germany. Lovelorn son Ross finds himself trapped in a nightmare road-trip with his parents when he agrees to drive his 83 year old father to Germany, so that the old man can apologize to a village he accidentally bombed during the war.
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2:30 PM
to 3:54 PM
Luckey
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About As this verite documentary film unfolds, viewers are drawn into an intimate family struggle. Tom Luckey is coping with recent and dramatic changes in his life. A sculptor, Tom was designing a three-story-tall climbable sculpture, the masterpiece of his career building interactive art, when he fell through a window and became paralyzed below his shoulders. Determined to finish his sculpture, Tom turned to his oldest son Spencer, an architect, for help. Spencer sees an opportunity to work with his father and to reclaim his boyhood relationship, which was interrupted by divorce and remarriage. As they try to forge a working relationship from a complex father-son relationship, Tom and Spencer find themselves reeling emotionally during the first year of Tom's paralysis, making working together explosive. Family dynamics are complicated by the fact that Tom's wife, Ettie, and Spencer don't get along. Stepmother and stepson, they become Tom's primary caretakers and companions, but can barely bring themselves to interact with one another. As Tom regains strength and ambition, but not mobility, enabling his artistic work while maintaining independence and sanity becomes a tricky balance for Tom, Spencer, and Ettie. LUCKEY is a portrait of a family in crisis and one man's efforts to create a new life in the wake of a devastating accident.
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3:00 PM
to 4:12 PM
Pulling John
14 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About 'Pulling John' is the universal story of a champion, who after 25 years of success is now burdened with the inevitable transformation of aging. John Brzenk, the legendary armwrestler, who works as an airline mechanic by day must decide whether to leave the sport he was raised on or wait to be defeated by 2 up and coming titans. Voevoda from Russia, Bagent from West Virginia and Yoshi from Tokyo are the colorful characters who have been raised on the legend of John Brzenk. These men define themselves by not becoming champions but by defeating the legend that is known as Brzenk. In a philosophical and thrilling ride, 'Pulling John' culminates at the Zloty Tur Championship in Warsaw, where Bagent and Voevoda have the chance of their life, to dethrone the conflicted Brzenk.
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3:00 PM
to 4:11 PM
Sunshine
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About It all starts with getting knocked up. An unplanned pregnancy for an unplanned girl sets off SUNSHINE, a playful, yet ultimately stirring self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search for answers through reconnection with her biological mother. Woven together from over 10 years of super 8 and video home movies, intimate family interviews, shimmering dance sequences and stylized reenactments, SUNSHINE offers a refreshingly rare glimpse on the current day transformations taking place within our most sacred of institutions.Young, pregnant, single and unprepared, the daughter/director struggles with the incredible ironies of the family, as she struggles to raise her own daughter and understand the plight of her biological mother.
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4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Favela on Blast
21 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About For 20 years, a subculture in Brazil has emerged under society's radar. Favela on Blast tells the stories of sex, love, poverty and pride for Rio's marginalized people. They have their own language, style, and heroes. It's a movie that's fast, heavy and violent like the city itself. This film is a flash of a few lives of charismatic people that relate to the funk music and a retelling of the subculture itself.
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4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Locusts
3 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Detroit-based Hip-Hop artists, Invincible and Finale, rhyme about how short-term profit-driven urban development schemes displace communities in their city. Through music, lyrics, and interviews with youth and community activists, including Grace Lee Boggs, Jessica Care Moore, and others, this groundbreaking documentary/music video offers alternative forms of economic development that engages communities and prioritizes the health and well-being of inner city neighborhoods.
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4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Saint Misbehavin' reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy Рa man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. We experience the impact one person can have and connect to the hope that each one of us can make a difference while keeping our sense of humor.Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, clown, and even a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin' we meet a true servant to humanity who carries his message through humor, compassion and a song he sings, called "Basic Human Needs".Saint Misbehavin' weaves together intimate verité footage, reflections from an array of cultural and counter-cultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.
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4:30 PM
to 5:58 PM
True Adolescents
26 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Meet Sam Bryant (Mark Duplass of The Puffy Chair and Humpday). He's an aging Seattle rocker with no job, no record deal, and no place to stay until he finds some room at his aunt's house in the suburbs. He's also the last guy anyone would pick to take two teens camping for some quality dude time. Written and directed by Craig Johnson, marking his feature directorial debut, TRUE ADOLESCENTS is a warm and spirited coming of age story that also stars newcomers Brett Loehr and Carr Thompson, and Academy-Award nominee Melissa Leo (Frozen River).
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5:00 PM
to 6:26 PM
It Came From Kuchar
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious and touching documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. As kids in the 1950s, George and Mike Kuchar began making no-budget epics in their Bronx neighborhood starring friends and family with their 8mm camera.
In the 1960s the Kuchars became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene.
The Kuchar brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all interviewed in this film).
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of consciousness tale.
In the 1960s the Kuchars became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene.
The Kuchar brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all interviewed in this film).
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of consciousness tale.
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5:00 PM
to 6:16 PM
Objectified
136 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It's about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It's about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
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5:15 PM
to 6:40 PM
All Tomorrow's Parties
55 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow's Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.
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5:15 PM
to 6:28 PM
Sons of a Gun
18 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Lance, Craig, and Ubaldo live with schizophrenia. They also live with Larry, their alcoholic caretaker/"dad". And even though they aren't related by blood, they've lived together as a family for 20 years. Through intimate access to this unique family, the documentary SONS OF A GUN follows them as they get evicted, move into a cramped motel room, joke around, and scramble to find a new home before their family self-destructs.
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5:30 PM
to 6:59 PM
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Imagine cramming 128 million people onto an island the size of Montana Ð you would be pretty close to replicating the density of Japan. Not surprisingly, space is at a premium and ergonomic design is right up there next to godliness.
Yet, even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative 'can of sardines,' people of all ages still make room for a little bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature's most efficient invention in space, design and function Ð insects.
Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald's Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.
Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan's captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the 'Isle of the Dragonflies.'
Along the way the film takes side trips to Zen temples and Buddhist Shrines, nature preserves and art museums in its quest for the inspirations that moved Japan into this fascination while other cultures hurtled off towards an almost universal and profound fear of insects.
Interspersed with the philosophies of one of Japan's best-selling authors and anatomists, Dr. Takeshi Yoro, and laced with poetry and art from Japan's history, this film becomes about much more than insects. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' is set to the rhythm of traditional Japanese values in its attention to detail, harmony, and the appreciation of the seemingly mundane. It quietly challenges the viewer to observe the world from an uncommon perspective that will shift the familiar to the fantastic and just might change not only the way we think about bugs, but the way we think about life.
Yet, even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative 'can of sardines,' people of all ages still make room for a little bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature's most efficient invention in space, design and function Ð insects.
Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald's Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.
Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan's captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the 'Isle of the Dragonflies.'
Along the way the film takes side trips to Zen temples and Buddhist Shrines, nature preserves and art museums in its quest for the inspirations that moved Japan into this fascination while other cultures hurtled off towards an almost universal and profound fear of insects.
Interspersed with the philosophies of one of Japan's best-selling authors and anatomists, Dr. Takeshi Yoro, and laced with poetry and art from Japan's history, this film becomes about much more than insects. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' is set to the rhythm of traditional Japanese values in its attention to detail, harmony, and the appreciation of the seemingly mundane. It quietly challenges the viewer to observe the world from an uncommon perspective that will shift the familiar to the fantastic and just might change not only the way we think about bugs, but the way we think about life.
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6:00 PM
to 7:30 PM
Calling E.T.
20 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Just imagine that we were to get in touch with extraterrestrial intelligence. Now, in our lifetime! There is a small group of people who are seriously taking this unlikely scenario into account. Their daily life is spent looking for signals from extraterrestrial civilisations and wondering how we, earthlings, should present ourselves if we were to make real contact.
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7:00 PM
to 8:33 PM
Splinterheads
25 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About For Justin Frost, a typical day is rolling out of bed at one, practicing improvised karate, and mowing grass for his best friend's landscaping business. But when a traveling carnival lands in his small town, Justin falls for a sexy con-artist and wakes up to the life he has yet to begin living
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7:00 PM
to 8:22 PM
Winnebago Man
33 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of -- after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man."
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7:15 PM
to 8:23 PM
Sissyboy
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A juncture in the lives of performance art revolutionaries, 'Sissyboy' explores the Portland-based gender-bending drag troupe that has served up their audacity, ambivalence and social commentary throughout the Rose City for over 3 years before hundreds of devoted fans.
Go behind the scenes for a glimpse of Sissyboy's last year of existence through the eyes of 1st-time filmmaker Katie Turinski. The rehearsals, relationships, joys and heartaches experienced by this patchwork family of outcasts should be remembered not just as a performance art movement, but also an insight into the human condition.
Please enjoy the hubris & humanity offered by this troupe of societal outsiders as you discover what it means to be a Sissy.
Go behind the scenes for a glimpse of Sissyboy's last year of existence through the eyes of 1st-time filmmaker Katie Turinski. The rehearsals, relationships, joys and heartaches experienced by this patchwork family of outcasts should be remembered not just as a performance art movement, but also an insight into the human condition.
Please enjoy the hubris & humanity offered by this troupe of societal outsiders as you discover what it means to be a Sissy.
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7:15 PM
to 8:33 PM
TRIMPIN: the sound of invention
37 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION is an amusing journey through the musical world of an eccentric creative genius.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.
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7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
American Boy
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Scorsese and friends are entertained by Steven Prince's stories about his middle-class Jewish childhood, his experience with drugs and guns, and his relationship with his father.
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7:30 PM
to 8:22 PM
American Prince
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About In 1978, Director, Martin Scorsese turned his cameras on his friend, Steven Prince. Best known for his role as the gun salesman in Taxi Driver, Steven was a true-life raconteur, an actor, an ex-drug addict, and road manager for Neil Diamond, Steven's life was to Scorsese more fascinating than what any screenwriter could dream up. The documentary that emerged, "American Boy"was to become one of Scorsese most compelling, but often overlooked projects.
Now three decades later and in a new setting, Steven Prince recounts his days since American Boy and tells why he turned his back on the entertainment industry. Still, as he composes his latest chapter, his ability to grip an audience remains. From placating construction boss to rock-star-girlfriend pacifier; concrete bunker builder to Cannes festival guest, Steven, the American Boy, extends the epic, as the American Prince.
American Boy will be screened immediately following American Prince.
Now three decades later and in a new setting, Steven Prince recounts his days since American Boy and tells why he turned his back on the entertainment industry. Still, as he composes his latest chapter, his ability to grip an audience remains. From placating construction boss to rock-star-girlfriend pacifier; concrete bunker builder to Cannes festival guest, Steven, the American Boy, extends the epic, as the American Prince.
American Boy will be screened immediately following American Prince.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:07 PM
Moon
48 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Before returning to Earth after three years on the moon, things go horribly wrong for astronaut Sam Bell.
Tags Narrative Feature
8:00 PM
to 9:45 PM
Make-Out with Violence
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About "MAKE-OUT with VIOLENCE" tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their posh suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the zombie Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
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8:00 PM
to 9:30 PM
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line
Location Hideout
Location Hideout
About Over a period of three years, the stencil artist Peter Gibson, aka Roadsworth, made his mark on Montreal in the early hours of the morning by launching a self-described "attack on the streets." Armed with spray paint and handmade stencils, he began to play with the language of the streets, overlaying city asphalt markings with his own images: a crosswalk became a giant boot print, vines choked up traffic dividers, and electrical plugs filled parking spots. Each piece begged the question, Who owns public space?
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line details the artist's prosecution at home and his travels abroad to France, London and Amsterdam, as he imprints himself legitimately (and illegitimately) on foreign streets. The film reflects Roadsworth's personal struggle to defend his work, define himself as an artist and address difficult questions about art and freedom of expression.
With Roadsworth: Crossing the Line, filmmaker Alan Kohl provides a portrait of an artist who provokes debate about the significance of art in urban spaces.
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line details the artist's prosecution at home and his travels abroad to France, London and Amsterdam, as he imprints himself legitimately (and illegitimately) on foreign streets. The film reflects Roadsworth's personal struggle to defend his work, define himself as an artist and address difficult questions about art and freedom of expression.
With Roadsworth: Crossing the Line, filmmaker Alan Kohl provides a portrait of an artist who provokes debate about the significance of art in urban spaces.
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9:15 PM
to 10:45 PM
Intangible Asset Number 82
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About When Australian drummer Simon Barker hears a rare recording of Korean shaman Kim Seok-Chul - a grand master in his seventies playing with immense energy and complex technique Ð he knows immediately he must find and learn from the enigmatic shaman officially recognized as South Korea's 82nd Intangible Asset.Undeterred by years of setbacks and obstacles, and with the elusive Kim Seok-Chul now in his eighties, Simon returns to Korea for a seventeenth time. The journey becomes a rite of passage, as meaningful encounters with engaging and exotic characters prepare Simon for a fortuitous meeting with the shaman.Personal transformations result, and Simon and the artists who have become immersed in his search move naturally to collaboration, a testimony to the universal language of music.
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9:30 PM
to 11:01 PM
Best Worst Movie
47 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In 1989, unwitting Utah actors starred in the undisputed Worst Movie in History: TROLL 2. Two decades later, the legendarily inept film's child star unravels the improbable, heartfelt story of an Alabamadentist-turned-cult movie icon and an Italian filmmaker who come to terms with this genuine, internationally revered cinematic failure.
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9:30 PM
to 10:58 PM
Breaking Upwards
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About 'Breaking Upwards' follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up. The film blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction by casting real life couple (and filmmakers) Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves. Together they explore alternatives to monogamy, inventing rules and boundaries in an effort to avoid pain. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
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9:30 PM
to 10:36 PM
The Last Beekeeper
27 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About 'Have you ever seen a lazy bee?' asks beekeeper Jim Robertson. Bees have worked tirelessly for man for centuries. But now they are vanishing. Wrangling with the enormity of this loss, 'The Last Beekeeper' follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (form South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of one year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. As they all take their bees to California's enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires the presence of the majority of bees in the US) it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind that they are in. 'If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?' asks Matt Hutchens . It's not just a question for the beekeepers, it's a question for all of us.
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10:00 PM
to 11:12 PM
Alexander the Last
46 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About A sensual and intimate portrait of a young marriage from director Joe Swanberg and producer Noah Baumbach. Focusing on an artistic young couple, Swanberg illuminates the challenges of monogamy amidst myriad sexual and creative temptations. Starring Jess Weixler, Justin Rice, Barlow Jacobs, Josh Hamilton and Jane Adams.
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11:00 PM
to 11:08 PM
Big Pussy
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A nice-guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has... an odor.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:02 PM
Boob
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Some boob jobs are bad. Some are evil.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 12:30 AM
Butthole Lickin'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Sometimes lesbian love isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:06 PM
Fish Out of Water - The Nightmare
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About In a follow up to their 2008 Midnight Short, Tumble and Chestnut attempt to enter Fish's nightmare to ward off the embodiment of all things evil.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:07 PM
Food For Thought
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Two impulsive teens get a lesson in abstinence after they are caught "in the act" by their teacher.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
I live in the Woods
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A Woodsman takes us on a journey of funny, epic proportions. He addresses us in rhyme, and wins our love while showing us that even beings who seem happy and sweet have a side of them which craves blood, primal rage, and the award of conquering, say, a God. Incorporating outdoor stopmotion animation, pixilation, and stunning visual illusions, 'I live in the Woods' takes us on a flurry of back and forth emotions, while at the same time questioning the image of a God worshipped by the masses of America.
Tags Animated Short
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
Manbabies
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Two smooth talking toddlers discuss politics, the state of the economy, and poo.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 12:19 AM
Midnight Shorts
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Treevenge
dir: Jason Eisener
Where do Christmas trees come from? Oh, you'll see.
Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
dir: Matt Dilmore
A warm and fuzzy holiday treat for Grandma.
Butthole Lickin'
dir: Kanako Kyle Wynkoop
Sometimes lesbian love isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Big Pussy
dir: Todd Strauss-Schulson
A nice-guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has... an odor.
Receive Bacon
dir: James M. Johnston
A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles.
Fish Out of Water - The Nightmare
dir: Ben Barnes
In a follow up to last year's Midnight Short, Tumble and Chestnut attempt to enter Fish's nightmare to ward off the embodiment of all things evil.
Scatterbrained!
dir: Joe Avella
An educational video about an illness known as Scatterbrained. And Mountain Dew.
Food for Thought
dir: Will Hartman
Two impulsive teens get a lesson in abstinence after they're caught "in the act" by their teacher.
I Live in the Woods
dir: Max Winston
A woodsman's frantic journey, driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.
The Famishing
dir: Toby Gorman and Jay Rathore
On a remote mountain top, two hungry survivors get more than they bargain for in their quest for nourishment.
Manbabies
dir: Kirk Johnson
Two smooth talking toddlers discuss politics, the state of the economy, and poo.
Safety First
dir: Ross Wilsey
When trying to get back stolen loot, four backstabbing criminals learn the true meaning of safety.
Boob
dir: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion
Some boob jobs are bad. Some are evil.
dir: Jason Eisener
Where do Christmas trees come from? Oh, you'll see.
Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
dir: Matt Dilmore
A warm and fuzzy holiday treat for Grandma.
Butthole Lickin'
dir: Kanako Kyle Wynkoop
Sometimes lesbian love isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Big Pussy
dir: Todd Strauss-Schulson
A nice-guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has... an odor.
Receive Bacon
dir: James M. Johnston
A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles.
Fish Out of Water - The Nightmare
dir: Ben Barnes
In a follow up to last year's Midnight Short, Tumble and Chestnut attempt to enter Fish's nightmare to ward off the embodiment of all things evil.
Scatterbrained!
dir: Joe Avella
An educational video about an illness known as Scatterbrained. And Mountain Dew.
Food for Thought
dir: Will Hartman
Two impulsive teens get a lesson in abstinence after they're caught "in the act" by their teacher.
I Live in the Woods
dir: Max Winston
A woodsman's frantic journey, driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.
The Famishing
dir: Toby Gorman and Jay Rathore
On a remote mountain top, two hungry survivors get more than they bargain for in their quest for nourishment.
Manbabies
dir: Kirk Johnson
Two smooth talking toddlers discuss politics, the state of the economy, and poo.
Safety First
dir: Ross Wilsey
When trying to get back stolen loot, four backstabbing criminals learn the true meaning of safety.
Boob
dir: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion
Some boob jobs are bad. Some are evil.
Tags Shorts Program
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
Receive Bacon
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
Safety First
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About When trying to get back stolen loot, four backstabbing criminals learn the true meaning of safety.
Tags Experimental Short
11:00 PM
to 11:04 PM
Scatterbrained!
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Joe and Tim give you the straight dope on Scatterbrainedness. What it is, how it works, how to get it, how to avoid it, and what it is. Believe it.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:11 PM
The Famishing
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About On a remote mountain top, two hungry survivors get more than they bargain for in their quest for nourishment.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:15 PM
Treevenge
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Where do Christmas trees come from? Oh, you'll see.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:01 PM
Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A warm and fuzzy holiday treat for Grandma.
Tags Experimental Short
11:30 PM
to 1:25 AM
Black
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry, our protagonist 'Black' needs to go on the lam. News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches the plan to go on a 'working vacation' that involves a little sightseeing and a lot of mayhem. Genre fans know underground French MC Jean Gab'1 as a villain in District B-13, but with BLACK, he take center stage and delivers a nouveau-blacksploitation adventure awash in, black magic, African mysticism, mutant arms dealers, gargantuan machete-wielding mercenary armies and a truckload of knuckle-sandwiches.
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11:45 PM
to 1:20 AM
Troll 2
34 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Widely regarded as The Worst Movie Ever Made, TROLL 2 is unquestionably one of the most unintentionally brilliant accomplishments in cinema. Filmed by an Italian exploitation legend using an unwitting Utah cast, this is the hypnotically inept story of a boy joining his grandfather's ghost to battle a witch's army of vegetarian goblins. Crucial and irresistible.
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11:59 PM
to 1:24 AM
Grace
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life, but when the baby develops a desperate appetite for human blood, Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate decision.
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11:59 PM
to 1:35 AM
Pontypool
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Grizzled morning radio legend Grant Mazzy has pissed off a lot of people in the radio business. That's why he finds himself announcing school closures and traffic reports from the basement headquarters of 'The Beacon' in the icy remote hamlet of Pontypool. On his way to work on a particularly frigid Valentine's Day morning, Mazzy is accosted by a dazed and mumbling woman banging at his car window who then suddenly disappears into the blizzard. As the workday continues, Mazzy and his radio station staff slowly discover that this seemingly innocuous occurrence may be linked to bizarre outbreaks of murder and bloody mayhem throughout the town. Veteran character actor Stephen McHattie (Hollis Mason/Nite Owl in the upcoming Watchmen movie) delivers a brilliant performance within the structure of writer Tony Burgess' taut War-of-the-Worlds-inspired script. Pontypool deftly sidesteps genre clichés and conventions, delivers plenty of white-knuckle suspense and enough post-movie-conversation fodder to last you to the end of the festival.
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11:00 AM
to 12:26 PM
Made In China
34 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Slinkys, Pet Rocks, Ant FarmsÉbehind each of those great novelties is the story of a great Novelty Inventor. 'Made In China' is the story of one such inventor. Johnson, a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, is determined to bring his big idea Ð "a humorous domestic hygiene product" - to the world. Johnson's journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.
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11:00 AM
to 12:20 PM
Motherland
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Six diverse and remarkable women, each grieving the loss of a child, travel to rural South Africa to work as volunteers in an effort to find some positive meaning in the wake of their tragedies. The group, strangers to each other before the trip began but bound by the painful experience they share, contribute to and learn from a culture that deals with mourning in a way very different from what they're accustomed to in America. For 17 days on the other side of the world, these women cry and laugh, grieve and celebrate, and talk more openly than ever before about the kids they adored. And for the first time since their children's deaths, together in the Motherland, each woman finds hope and healing in the company of others who truly understand her experience.
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11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
17 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About A vibrant, soulful and in-depth look at one of the world s most popular and inspiring musicians, Senegalese hero Youssou Ndour, YOUSSOU NDOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE was shot over two years and across three continents. Following the Grammy-winning African icon as he releases his most ambitious album, EGYPT, a best-selling record in which, for the first time, Ndour sings about Islam. Upon release in Senegal, the album was considered blasphemous, bringing Ndour, perhaps the most popular Muslim artist in the world, face to face with the contradictions of his own religion.
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11:30 AM
to 11:45 AM
A. Effect
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Two actors struggle to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese. A. Effect is loosely scripted and highly improvised as the actors adlibbed the majority of their dialogue and contributed ideas to their characters throughout the process of production. The characters were based on who the actors were in real life so they were essentially playing themselves and adding to the realism to blur the lines of narrative filmmaking.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:38 AM
Non-Love-Song
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 12:53 PM
Reel Shorts 3
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Thompson', directed by Jason Tippet. Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
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11:30 AM
to 11:45 AM
The Better Half
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Gordon keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his bedroom. Encounters with three women gradually reveal his fixation and ultimately ask the question: Can you ever have all of someone?
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:38 AM
The Golden Pose
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About A street performer grapples with artistic perfection ... and mimes.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 12:54 PM
The Way We Get By
14 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About A captivating and intimate look at three senior citizens in America as they struggle with the losses that come with growing old and the uplifting ways they rediscover their reasons for living. By greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine, Bill Knight, Joan Gaudet, and Jerry Mundy find the strength to overcome their own personal battles and demonstrate the meaning of community at a time when most Americans have lost faith in their country.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:30 AM
to 11:38 AM
Thick as Thieves
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About While walking through an alley on his way home from his job as a bank teller, Marshall Jones is jumped by Emmanuel, a scraggly yet intimidating hoodlum. However, once Emmanuel notices an odd commonality, the two become unexpected partners in crime. Sort of.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:40 AM
Thompson
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
Tags Documentary Short
11:30 AM
to 11:40 AM
Unlimited
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An impressionistic evocation of nighttime New York, Unlimited explores the hidden backrooms and marginal neighborhoods of the city as Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:37 AM
Wing It
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
Tags Narrative Short
12:00 PM
to 1:30 PM
AMAC @ The Hideout: Austin Film Society
5 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A program of short films from the Austin Film Society's community of filmmaker-members.
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12:00 PM
to 1:31 PM
ExTerminators
25 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About "Ex-terminators" is a black comedy centering on Alex (Graham), a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court ordered therapy. There she meets Stella (Coolidge), the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon; and Nikki (Heard), a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women will form their own 'silent revolution', wrecking havoc on the men of Texas.
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12:00 PM
to 1:26 PM
St. Nick
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About St. Nick is the story of a brother and sister on the run. He's eleven, she's nine. They've left their home for some unknown reason, and are living in the woods, hiding in barns and sheds, doing what they can to survive. As the bitter Texas winter sets in, they strike up residence in an abandoned house and, for a brief, bittersweet period, manage to escape the harsh realities of their circumstances.
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1:30 PM
to 3:06 PM
Artois the Goat
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known, and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. She has taken a new job in Detroit and to follow her means signing his life over to his soul-sapping career in artificial flavor additives. To stay behind and pursue his newfound passion for fine artisanal goat cheese, is to risk losing her forever. Despite his lack of resources, experience, or basic competency in the field of agriculture, Virgil heads for the hills (literally) with a felonious German baker, a grave-digging hermit, and a tiny white goat named Artois. With Angie awaiting his imminent return and a conference of the International Cheese Consortium just a few months away, he has no choice but to go for broke. Throw away everything he has on a gamble: That, before it is too late, he can craft a cheese that will change the world. A cheese that will buy him a new life. A cheese of destiny.
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1:30 PM
to 2:58 PM
True Adolescents
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Meet Sam Bryant (Mark Duplass of The Puffy Chair and Humpday). He's an aging Seattle rocker with no job, no record deal, and no place to stay until he finds some room at his aunt's house in the suburbs. He's also the last guy anyone would pick to take two teens camping for some quality dude time. Written and directed by Craig Johnson, marking his feature directorial debut, TRUE ADOLESCENTS is a warm and spirited coming of age story that also stars newcomers Brett Loehr and Carr Thompson, and Academy-Award nominee Melissa Leo (Frozen River).
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1:45 PM
to 3:32 PM
My Suicide
49 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himselfÑ on cameraÑ for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra- the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a 'Shady Bunch' of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.
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2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
AMAC @ The Hideout: Reel Women
2 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A selection of short films made by REEL WOMEN members including CC Stinson, D.J. Morrison, Gabriela Quijano, Mary Tucker, Kathy Davis, Sally & Kelly Jackson, Alpha, Karen Aptekar, Cheryal Loosmore. Included are narratives and documentaries ranging from a parody of a scene from a Coen Brothers' film to a plea for governmental support for medical funding for foster children.
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2:00 PM
to 3:40 PM
Animated Shorts
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Milbe '(Mite), directed by Karl Tebbe. A short animation about a grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world. 6:00
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
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2:00 PM
to 2:11 PM
Birth
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advise she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:10 PM
Haunted House
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Haunted House is a bastardization of the classic comedy story, told from the perspective of scum-bag puppets and their terrible deaths.
Tags Narrative Short
2:00 PM
to 2:04 PM
Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Detailed, handcrafted dioramas set the stage for the quiet anxieties and revelations of three faceless wooden characters. Still photographs, slight animation, and an empathetic narrator cast emotions on an otherwise motionless world of meals spent alone, over-priced kitchen gadgets, and insincere apologies.
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2:00 PM
to 2:06 PM
Milbe
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About MILBE (MITE) is a short animation film about my grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:01 PM
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About An animated interpretation of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." A meditation on shapes, lines and language.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:06 PM
Photograph Of Jesus
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.
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2:00 PM
to 2:08 PM
Rosa Rosa
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite lineups, traffic jams and shortages they manage to live a peaceful life with their little girl. Rosa Rosa is the interweaving of individual and collective fates via a love story told by the couple themselves. It consists partly of reworked photos, the images superimposed on each other to create a stylized realism in which public and private spaces overlap. With its evocative soundtrack and plain, simple narration, this film by director Félix Dufour-Laperrire offers a touching look at happiness in hard times.
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2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
Shaman
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Utaaq, an old Inuit, is at a bus stop in Copenhagen when he spots a bird from his native Greenland above his head Ð a rare visitor to these climes. It reminds him of his youth: As a young hunter, Utaaq discovered that a qivitoq was using a tupilak to kill local hunters. Tupilaks are magical creatures that obey their masters. Utaaq went off into the mountains where he became a shaman, and on his return, he used his powers to destroy the qivitoq. Back to Utaaq at the bus stop, we see a weary old man nostalgically watching the bird É
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
Skip and Lester: Here's the Stapler if You Need It
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his boss has given him only one directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:03 PM
Snake
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Deceptively playful, Snake is a film about stubbornness in the face of change. The film chronicles a failure to deal with time (and teeth) passing while using appealing characters and sounds to glorify the obdurate attempt to replace what is lost.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
2:00 PM
to 2:09 PM
Sweet Dreams
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About This stop-motion animation, made almost entirely with real food, tells the tale of a stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 2:04 PM
The Godfather Musical: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "The Godfather Musical Part III: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes" is the third and final installment of a Godfather-inspired musical. Part III imagines what happened to Luca Brasi after his assassination.
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
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2:00 PM
to 2:04 PM
Tourist
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A tourist braves the busy city streets as he tries to snap the perfect photo of New York, only to find that the Big Apple seems to be a bit camera shy. In a city full of landmarks, there is always someone there to ruin his shot. Action! Intrigue! Sightseeing! Animated on location in New York City.
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2:00 PM
to 2:06 PM
Trepan Hole
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Andy Cahill abstractively drew the lines well on surrealistic discourse about a fission and unification, so this animation could be fully said to be 'synthetic'. Stripes wrap not only his clays, but also my whole impression, and the hole remains as a sort of obsession in the brain.
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:38 PM
Wake Up
13 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About One day four years ago Jonas Elrod woke up with the inexplicable ability tosee and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts. The documentary WAKE UPfollows his journey across the country and overseas for the next three yearsto find out why.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
You're Outa here
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About A feisty descendant of Betty Boop tells her no-good boyfriend to hit the road, her litany of complaints set to the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. "You're Outa Here" starts with stride-master Dick Hyman playing the high-voltage intro to "The Minor Drag." Our animated leading lady strides forth to make her case for the immediate ejection of her boyfriend from their apartment. Her cat clock, dog and pet piranha also demand his exit. She attempts to oust him from his Barcalounger, badgers him to start packing, and recounts his various shortcomings. He's lazy, he sleeps around, he called her doorman "Pancho" and her Uncle Bob "a queer." The film includes two rotoscope dance sequences. This Neo-Soundie was sung by Lorraine Feather, who also wrote the lyrics, and animated by George Griffin.
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2:30 PM
to 4:01 PM
45365
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About '45365' (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Ð Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak and act for themselves, as themselves. These storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at everyday life in middle America.
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2:30 PM
to 3:42 PM
Letters to the President
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Exclusive access film about President Ahmadinejad of Iran, and what life is like under his regime. The film takes as its narrative thread the letters that supposedly ten million Iranians have written to the President.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
A Vida Politica
1 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In the struggle for your rights can hair be a weapon?
A Vida Politica is about Negra Jho, a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
A Vida Politica is about Negra Jho, a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Bitch Academy
10 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Young women in St. Petersburg are going to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They want to learn how to be a successful bitch. Bitch academy/ Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary of the early Russian capitalism, which determines in an atmosphere of fear and hope, the dreams and intimacies of it's young generations.
Social relationships in Russian society have changed a great deal in recent years. In this turbulent period, the country's own conception of its women has come under great pressure, and this has major consequences for how men and women get along with each other. What is expected of you as a young woman these days? And even more importantly, how can you make sure to appeal to the contemporary, successful Russian man? The answer to these questions is the Bitch Academy, a training school for the modern-day gold digger.The male course instructor employs unorthodox methods. Boosted by his advice, exercises and role play, a striking game unfolds between him and his female students. In an atmosphere of sexism and abuse of power, a world of lust and temptation is created in which there's only room for the most ruthless seductress. The students emulate that image, but behind their sexy masks lurks a world of great uncertainty and sorrow.Filmmaker Alina Rudnitskaya only observes. Together with her crew, she snakes her way around the tiny classroom and films a shocking portrait of a society adrift.
Social relationships in Russian society have changed a great deal in recent years. In this turbulent period, the country's own conception of its women has come under great pressure, and this has major consequences for how men and women get along with each other. What is expected of you as a young woman these days? And even more importantly, how can you make sure to appeal to the contemporary, successful Russian man? The answer to these questions is the Bitch Academy, a training school for the modern-day gold digger.The male course instructor employs unorthodox methods. Boosted by his advice, exercises and role play, a striking game unfolds between him and his female students. In an atmosphere of sexism and abuse of power, a world of lust and temptation is created in which there's only room for the most ruthless seductress. The students emulate that image, but behind their sexy masks lurks a world of great uncertainty and sorrow.Filmmaker Alina Rudnitskaya only observes. Together with her crew, she snakes her way around the tiny classroom and films a shocking portrait of a society adrift.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Children of the Eclipse
2 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In February 2008, hundreds of children and their families converge on Queens Hospital in Jessore. They come from all over Bangladesh, but these children have one thing in common -- they each suffer from disfiguring cleft lips and palates. For the duration of a five day 'camp,' local plastic surgeons operate on the children in an effort to mend their lips and speech habits. But Bangladeshis are not accustomed to hospitals -- the pressure can be too much for the waiting parents.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Forty Men for the Yukon
1 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About German-born Frank Erl, a 75 year-old gold miner and English-born Geordie Dobson, an 82 year-old saloon owner live isolated in the outskirts of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Surviving tragedies, war, divorce and the construction of a 38,000 beer-bottle house, they now face the universal decision of how to move forward in life.
In keeping with the character and mood of the northern Yukon, FORTY MEN FOR THE YUKON is a patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
In keeping with the character and mood of the northern Yukon, FORTY MEN FOR THE YUKON is a patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Home
Location Hideout
Location Hideout
About What drives our fascination with the ownership of bricks and mortar? The film explores ideas of home through the voice of Joe McGarry, Director of Homeless charity Arlington House in Camden. In his poetic monologue he reflects on his life of transience as a homeless person and his search for the meaning of 'home'. His mantra offers a philosophical perspective in the idea that 'Homelessness' and the 'home' lie within us, rather than in our material wealth or through our physical possessions.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
King of Laughter
5 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In the 1950s people laughed 18 minutes a day on average, now the average is 6 minutes. Belachew Girma is determined to try and turn this round. Belachew currently holds the world record for the longest laugh, ninety solid minutes without stopping. He believes that he can speared his message of positivity to anyone he meets. 'King of laughter' tests his theory by sending Belachew on a laughter journey through Britain's saddest town.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Lies
1 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Three perfectly true stories about lying.
Tags Animated Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Pockets
1 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About This short documentary explores the common pocket. It is a universal part of our everyday lives. We all keep items in our pockets to take them from point A to point B, to keep them safe, to keep them close by for ease of use, to give us good luck, to remind us something. What lies within our pockets often reveals more about us than we would expect. It is an insight into our personality, personal lives and social background.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:13 PM
Sons of a Gun
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Lance, Craig, and Ubaldo live with schizophrenia. They also live with Larry, their alcoholic caretaker/"dad". And even though they aren't related by blood, they've lived together as a family for 20 years. Through intimate access to this unique family, the documentary SONS OF A GUN follows them as they get evicted, move into a cramped motel room, joke around, and scramble to find a new home before their family self-destructs.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:20 PM
SXGlobal Shorts
7 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About 'King of Laughter', UK, directed by Nick Hillel, In the 1950's people laughed an average 18 minutes a day, now the average is 6 minutes. World Laughter Master Belachew Girma from Ethiopia believes he can turn this around in Britain's saddest town, Walsall.
'Lies', Sweden, directed by Jonas Odell. Three perfectly true stories about lying.
'A Vida Politica', Brazil, directed by Katrina Mansoor. Negra Jho is a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
'Children of the Eclipse', Australia, directed by Zane Lovitt. In February 2008, hundreds of children and their families converge on a hospital in Bangladesh. They each suffer from disfiguring cleft lips and palates. For the duration of a five day camp, local plastic surgeons operate on the children in an effort to mend their lips and speech habits.
'Home', UK, directed by Chris Allen. What is the true meaning of 'home' in the 21st Century?
'Forty Men for the Yukon', Canada, directed by Tony Massil. A patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
'Pockets', UK, directed by James Lees. What do the contents of your pockets say about you?
'Bitch Academy', Russia, directed by Alina Rudnitskay. Young women in St. Petersburg are going to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. Bitch academy/ Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary of early Russian capitalism, which proliferates in an atmosphere of fear and hope, the dreams and intimacies of its young generations.
'Lies', Sweden, directed by Jonas Odell. Three perfectly true stories about lying.
'A Vida Politica', Brazil, directed by Katrina Mansoor. Negra Jho is a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
'Children of the Eclipse', Australia, directed by Zane Lovitt. In February 2008, hundreds of children and their families converge on a hospital in Bangladesh. They each suffer from disfiguring cleft lips and palates. For the duration of a five day camp, local plastic surgeons operate on the children in an effort to mend their lips and speech habits.
'Home', UK, directed by Chris Allen. What is the true meaning of 'home' in the 21st Century?
'Forty Men for the Yukon', Canada, directed by Tony Massil. A patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
'Pockets', UK, directed by James Lees. What do the contents of your pockets say about you?
'Bitch Academy', Russia, directed by Alina Rudnitskay. Young women in St. Petersburg are going to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. Bitch academy/ Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary of early Russian capitalism, which proliferates in an atmosphere of fear and hope, the dreams and intimacies of its young generations.
Tags Shorts Program
4:15 PM
to 5:47 PM
The Overbrook Brothers
28 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Jason comes home for Christmas and his arch-rival brother, Todd, has a big surprise waiting for him -- but it's not a gift. It's secret information: The reason why Jason has always been the "least favorite" child, and it sends our hero on a hilarious cross-country journey to find out the truth about himself and his family.
Tags Narrative Feature
4:30 PM
to 4:33 PM
100 mg
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Peeking with a passive curiosity that lingers a little too long. Then we go in and things begin to change.
Tags Experimental Short
4:30 PM
to 6:12 PM
American Violet
24 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Based on true events in 2000, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), an African American single mother living in Texas. District attorney (Academy Award nominee Michael O'Keefe) leads an extensive drug bust sweeping her housing project, and Dee soon discovers she has been wrongfully charged as a drug dealer. Despite her mother's urgings (Academy Award nominee Alfre Woodard), and with her freedom at stake, she chooses to fight the district attorney. Joined in an alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and former local narcotics officer (Will Patton), Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system. AMERICAN VIOLET also stars Emmy Award winner Charles S. Dutton and Xzibit.
Tags Narrative Feature
4:30 PM
to 4:52 PM
BigBand
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About BigBand is a journey into contemporary urban world that happens among situations that are theoretically distant in time and space but come together with radical turns of the narrative. In this way a zapping effect that transports the audience from one place to the next and challenges them to create the relationship between the scenes is created, forcing a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes, like the transformation of our environment, the passage of time and urban chaos.
Tags Experimental Short
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Cattle Call
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have created images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. This hallucinogenic study of what Werner Herzog has termed 'the poetry of capitalism,' will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
Tags Documentary Short
4:30 PM
to 4:54 PM
Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About World Premiere! Sarah Jane Lapp's semi-fictional, hand-drawn animation, scored by Mark Dresser and made possible by interviews with eulogists galore, follows a eulogist-in-training and his encounter with the interstitial spaces our communal memories create between mortality and immortality. A decade in the making, a portion of this film exhibited internationally, won a Black Maria Jurors' Choice Award, and, yes, screened both with SXSW 2006 and on SXSWPresents/PBS.
Tags Animated Short
4:30 PM
to 4:41 PM
Dear Texas Highways
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Dear Texas Highways is a cinematic sequence of still photographs that illustrate a darkling letter written to Texas Highways magazine.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
Tags Experimental Short
4:30 PM
to 5:44 PM
Experimental Shorts
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'The Idiot Stinks', directed by Helder Sun. Animation, Angst, Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
Tags Shorts Program
4:30 PM
to 4:31 PM
The Idiot Stinks
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About Animation Angst. Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
Tags Animated Short
4:30 PM
to 4:34 PM
The Nature Between Us
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About An old VHS camera reveals a bonkers back-alley gang, struggling for a sense of identity. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, they stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style. As the two worlds collide, the characters discover The Nature Between Us.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:36 PM
Turning Trick
Location Alamo Lamar 1
Location Alamo Lamar 1
About In a scene from Truffaut«s Les Mistons from 1957, fiveboys chase each other, then stop abruptly and pretend toshoot at one another. One by one, they fall to the ground. InTurning Trick, we see five girls in a park. At first it looks likethey are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops intosomething quite different.
Tags Narrative Short
4:45 PM
to 6:08 PM
Garbage Dreams
35 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys Ð Adham, a bright precocious 17 year old; Osama, a charming impish 16 year old; Nabil, a shy artistic 18 year old Ð born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is the home to 60,000 'Zaballeen'(or 'Zabbaleen'), arabic for 'garbage people.'
When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 6:20 PM
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Brock Enright, and his girlfriend Kirsten Deirup drive from Brooklyn, NY to her family's cabin in Mendocino, CA to prepare for his first solo show at a prominent New York gallery. As Enright struggles to produce what could be his most significant work, his relationship with Kirsten, her family, and the gallery is strained by his violent, explicit, and challenging creation.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 6:34 PM
Three Blind Mice
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last testosterone-packed night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancée and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
Tags Narrative Feature
6:00 PM
to 6:04 PM
A Hospital Bathroom
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About Two strangers have a short and terrible conversation in a hospital bathroom.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:04 PM
Cloudburst
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About In hopes that someone will find the tape, a passionate girl narrates the filming of her tornado suicide.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:05 PM
Fatal Fortune Cookie
3 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About After receiving a fortune cookie unlike any other, Sam finds himself dreading his own death by a gift he will receive the following day. "Fatal Fortune Cookie" will take you on a nail-biting ride with an ending that will leave you speechless.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:02 PM
Fresh Fruit
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About 'Fresh Fruit' is about the secret lives of fruit living in a refrigerator. An apple and a pear discuss topics ranging from the end of the world to the meaning of existence. However, their secret lives are destroyed when interrupted by a hungry human.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:02 PM
Making Perfect
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About A struggling beginner musician finds inspiration from his teacher.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 7:30 PM
Mirror
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About "Mirror" tells the story of Sadri who, while visiting a Middle Eastern city, enters a shop filled with rugs, trinkets, and other interesting items for sale. He stumbles across a mirror which becomes magical. He finds himself dragged through the mirror to an alternate world of monsters, where curiosity puts him in a bad situation.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:05 PM
Miss Tilford
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About Milton, a geeky high school student obtains a magical Aztec idol that grants him three wishes. He bases all wishes on his desire for his hot teacher, Miss Tilford. She notices him. She kisses him. But his final wish is more than final.
Tags Narrative Short
6:00 PM
to 6:04 PM
One More Chance
1 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About Sarah has had enough of James. He's more interested in hanging out with his friends and playing video games than spending time with her. When she tells him she wants to break up, he talks her into giving him one more chance...or so he thinks.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 7:30 PM
Performance Evaluation
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About After a surprising end to his relationship with his girlfriend, Chris struggles to find the reasoning in her actions. In Performance Evaluation, you learn that just about anything can be professional.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:04 PM
6:00 PM
to 6:01 PM
Save The Arts
1 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About This 60 second public service announcement covers what the true meaning of art is to students from various areas. Their passion for the arts is powerful and cannot be stopped. "Without art, we're lost"
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 7:30 PM
Snowblind
5 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Rachael Scdoris is 23, and has been legally blind since birth. Shes racing in her third Iditarod, the grueling 1,100 mile dog sled race in Alaska the toughest race in the world. This film follows her for the year leading up to the race, as she trains herself and her team of dogs for the epic ordeal of Iditarod 2008, fifteen days of ice and exhaustion and danger and exhilaration. We learn about the sport, and we get to know the dogs their different personalities and their different roles in the sled team. We get to know her fellow Iditarod racer Joe, her visual interpreter in the race and a great Iditarod champion in his own right, as well as their fellow Iditaracers, a community of quirky denizens of Americas last frontier. We get to know Rachaels family, particularly her father Jerry, with whom she has a tempestuous relationship. But most of all we get to know Rachael, her tenacity and courage, and the obstacles she faces both from outside and from within herself that she has to overcome to do the impossible. In the course of this, we see through her eyes and find ourselves inhabiting the same world of blindness that she lives her entire life in. We too become Snowblind.
The forbidding grandeur of Alaska in midwinter is the backdrop for Rachaels race in March 2008. Everything comes together in an action-packed drama, a truly American epic, as this amazing heroic young woman experiences the agony and the ecstasy of trying to win the Last Race On Earth, against all odds.
The forbidding grandeur of Alaska in midwinter is the backdrop for Rachaels race in March 2008. Everything comes together in an action-packed drama, a truly American epic, as this amazing heroic young woman experiences the agony and the ecstasy of trying to win the Last Race On Earth, against all odds.
Tags Documentary Feature
6:00 PM
to 7:10 PM
Texas High School Shorts
4 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About 'Cloudburst'Director: John Gordon
'Fatal Fortune Cookie'Director: Garrett Sullivan
'One More Chance'Mitch Collier
'Miss Tilford'Director: Beck Olp and Bryan Lawson
'Mirror' Director: Rachel Racanelli
'Zach'Director: Whitney Steele
'The Last Pageant'Director: Jason Broussard
'Save the Arts'Director: Nicole Prian
'Puppy Love'Director: Joseph Walsh
'Making Perfect'Director: Alan Michnoff
'A Hospital Bathroom'Director: Miguel Johnson
'Fresh Fruit'Director: Edward Kelley
'The Transcendence of Gabriel'Director: Sam Cooke
'Performance Evaluation'Director: Breannah Gibson
'When Life Gives You Lemons'Director: Jordan Haro
'Umbrella'Director: Ryan Kline
'Unearthed'Director: Adrian Scarborough
'Fatal Fortune Cookie'Director: Garrett Sullivan
'One More Chance'Mitch Collier
'Miss Tilford'Director: Beck Olp and Bryan Lawson
'Mirror' Director: Rachel Racanelli
'Zach'Director: Whitney Steele
'The Last Pageant'Director: Jason Broussard
'Save the Arts'Director: Nicole Prian
'Puppy Love'Director: Joseph Walsh
'Making Perfect'Director: Alan Michnoff
'A Hospital Bathroom'Director: Miguel Johnson
'Fresh Fruit'Director: Edward Kelley
'The Transcendence of Gabriel'Director: Sam Cooke
'Performance Evaluation'Director: Breannah Gibson
'When Life Gives You Lemons'Director: Jordan Haro
'Umbrella'Director: Ryan Kline
'Unearthed'Director: Adrian Scarborough
Tags Shorts Program
6:00 PM
to 6:05 PM
The Last Pageant
1 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About As Celina Masterson prepares for her final pageant, five competitors attempt to hide internal and external scars that may prevent the all important victory. As the competitive brutality intensifies from all five angles, Celina's past catches up with her. But it's her last laugh and her final cut that ends it all. Forever.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:05 PM
The Transcendence of Gabriel
1 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About Gabriel is both an outcast of his high school and of society as a whole who wants nothing more out of life than to be a duck. He embarks on a quest to transcend the boundaries of human existence by imitating what he sees as "his own kind". The film is about the isolation and compromise that comes with the realization of an unattainable dream.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:05 PM
Umbrella
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About A lonely teacher finds love with the help of an umbrella.This is the first festival screening of the film.
Tags Narrative Short
6:00 PM
to 6:04 PM
Unearthed
1 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About An excavation team unearths an unusual canine lupus species which is well-preserved. Spirits are high until things... and people begin to go missing.
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:02 PM
When Life Gives You Lemons
2 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About A boy (Thost) pursues his self-proclaimed true love (Lewin) only to face rejection. All the while, a shy girl (Ramsdell) watches the boy with a deep infatuation for him. It is only after he learns the hard way, the boy discovers what really is "true love".
Tags High School Short
6:00 PM
to 6:05 PM
Zach
1 Attendees
Location
Carver Center
About Do you remember that kid in high school that knew everyone, and did everything; well that's Zach. He's a cool guy, everyone loves him and so will you. Experience the life of Zach and his fun teenage adventures. But the mystery of Zach will always live.
Tags Narrative Short
6:15 PM
to 7:39 PM
Bomber
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping bombs on Germany. Lovelorn son Ross finds himself trapped in a nightmare road-trip with his parents when he agrees to drive his 83 year old father to Germany, so that the old man can apologize to a village he accidentally bombed during the war.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:46 PM
Adventureland
87 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), an uptight recent college grad, can't wait to embark on his dream tour of Europe. But when his parents (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) announce they can no longer subsidize his trip, James has little choice but to take a lowly job at a local amusement park. Forget about German beer, world-famous museums and cute French girls-James' summer will now be populated by belligerent dads, stuffed pandas, and screaming kids high on cotton candy. Lucky for James, what should have been his worst summer ever turns into quite an adventure as he discovers love in the most unlikely place with his captivating co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), and learns to loosen up.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:33 PM
Humpday
34 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About A farcical comedy about straight male bonding gone a little too far.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:15 PM
to 8:30 PM
Say My Name
15 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In a hip hop and R'n'B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Name speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs. This worldwide documentary takes viewers on vibrant tour of urban culture from hip hop's birthplace in the Bronx, to grime on London's Eastside and all points in between. Featuring interviews and performances from a diverse cast including Remy Ma, Jean Grea, Erykah Badu, Estelle and newcomers Choc Thai, Invincible and Miz Korona, this powerful doc delves into the personal stories of women balancing professional dreams with the realities of poor urban communities, race, sexism, and motherhood. These are women turning adversity into art.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:02 PM
Modern Love Is Automatic
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Lorraine Schultz works as a nurse in a doctor's office. Every day she rides the bus to work, listens to her co-workers gossip, comes home. None of it really matters. After finding an issue of Shackled Monthly on the bus, Lorraine is drawn into a secret, seedy world of lonely men, cheap motel rooms, and whips and chains. Meanwhile, her roommate Adrian's dreams of becoming a glamorous fashion model are cut short when the only employment she can find is showcasing mattresses in a strip mall. Will Lorraine's secret life as a dominatrix be revealed? Will Adrian sell enough mattresses to be featured in the big coupon spread? In pursuing their hidden desires and misguided dreams, both girls find their paths crossing in ways they never expected. Yeah. Sure. Okay.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:05 PM
Sin Nombre
36 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Sin Nombre, the winner of the Directing Award and the Excellence in Cinematography Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, is an epic dramatic thriller written and directed by Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga in his feature debut. The filmmaker's firsthand experiences with Central American immigrants seeking the promise of the U.S. form the basis of the Spanish-language movie.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:03 PM
Sorry, Thanks
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Upon visiting her ex's to collect her belongings, Kira returns anxiously to dating and immediately collides with the disheveled Max. Disaster looms when Max (already taken) decides to dabble in two new pursuits: an obsessive-tending interest in Kira, and the mystery of whether he may in fact be an ass. Kira, meanwhile, fights to win a job she's far too smart for, then sabotages her only meaningful romantic prospect when a friend lays it on the line. Shot in San Francisco's Mission District, featuring the comic duo of Wiley Wiggins & Andrew Bujalski (who plays the best friend on the frontlines of Max's emotional shortcomings), and introducing newcomers Kenya Miles & Ia Hernandez. "Sorry, Thanks" charts turmoil, deep fallibility and the wreckage of self-delusion. In a laughy kind of way.
Tags Narrative Feature
8:00 PM
to 9:30 PM
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
20 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About 'Sounds Like Teen Spirit' is the warmly comic story of childhood, innocence, teen-dreams and singing off-key. Following a group of loveable losers on their journey to the world's largest children's song-writing contest, 'Sounds Like Teen Spirit' celebrates the underdog spirit of heroic amateurism in what Variety describes as an 'irresistible crowd pleaserÉ delightful'.
Tags Documentary Feature
8:45 PM
to 10:10 PM
Burma VJ
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Armed with small handy cams, undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Their material is smuggled out of Burma and broadcast back via satellite. 'Joshua', age 27, becomes tactical leader of a group of reporters, as Buddhist monks in September 2007 lead a massive uprising. Foreign TV crews are banned from the country, so it's left to Joshua and his crew to keep the revolution alive on TV screens all over. As government intelligence understands the power of the camera, the VJs become their prime target.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:15 PM
to 10:52 PM
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About When Dory's life seems like it's going down the drain, a strange 'new life' takes shape inside him and he learns that sometimes you don't have to find meaning, it grows in you.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:55 PM
Four Boxes
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Trevor Grainger, Amber Croft and Rob Rankrus run Go Time Liquidators Ð an ambulance-chasing eBay auction business. In a dead man's destroyed suburban house they start watching a bookmarked surveillance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. If fourboxes.tv isn't just more internet BS, then a crazed creep they call Havoc is building enough bombs to, like, kill everybody.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:30 PM
to 10:54 PM
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
54 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.Which side of the ideas war are you on?
Tags Documentary Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:20 PM
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
29 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About At fourteen years old, best friends Lips and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil, hailed as the 'demi-gods of Canadian metal,' influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. Though Anvil never made it, they never stopped playing or believing. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now well into their fifties, set off to record their thirteenth album, 'This is Thirteen,' in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dream.
Tags Documentary Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:35 PM
Women In Trouble
33 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate Los Angeles women: a porn star, a psychiatrist, a flight attendant, a masseuse, a bartender, a mother, a a daughter, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one thing in common: Trouble.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:00 PM
to 12:30 AM
Brüno Sneak Peek
35 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Come early to guarantee admission.
No badge needed! Free! (A select number of SXSW Badge Holders will have priority access)
Vassup!
No badge needed! Free! (A select number of SXSW Badge Holders will have priority access)
Vassup!
11:00 PM
to 12:24 AM
The Ceremony
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Psychology major, Eric Peterson has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime. To secure his dream job, Eric needs only provide a last minute paper to appease his superiors. As he prepares for graduation, he encounters a mysterious find left behind by a roommate; a gothic book called, The Ceremony. The book is too difficult to ignore for the intellectual Peterson who believes he has found the perfect case study for his report. However, his curiosity soon builds from initial interest to precarious obsession as the book's contents create a world where reality has begun to fade. As night falls, Eric finds himself imprisoned within a mental state of confusion as his home seems to have been overcome by a seemingly malevolent force.A film that dares to challenge traditional thrillers, The Ceremony creates a vivid mystery surrounding a young man's circumstances as he struggles to identify what is happening around him, or what could be happening... from within.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:28 AM
A Film With Me In It
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Mark (Mark Doherty) is having a bad day. A struggling actor, he's just been through the ordeal of yet another fruitless audition for a bit part in a movie. With his long-suffering girlfriend about to walk out and his landlord ready to evict him he's only got his best mate Pierce (Dylan Moran) and their joint ambition of writing a career-breaking film to sustain him.
Life's not easy, but things are about to get worseÉmuch worse, and then someone dies and things get really bad!
Life's not easy, but things are about to get worseÉmuch worse, and then someone dies and things get really bad!
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:29 AM
Drag Me to Hell (Work in Progress)
59 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About NO CAMERAS ALLOWED INTO THIS SCREENING. CELL PHONES WITH CAMERAS ARE OKAY.Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with Drag Me to Hell, an original tale of a young woman's desperate quest to break an evil curse.
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and givethe old woman a break? Or should she deny the extension to impress her boss, Mr. Jacks (David Paymer), and get a leg-up on a promotion? Christine fatefully chooses the latter, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home.
In retaliation, the old woman places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Haunted by an evil spirit and misunderstood by a skeptical boyfriend, she seeks the aid of seer Rham Jas (Dileep Rao) to save her soul from eternal damnation. To help the shattered Christine return her life to normal, the psychic sets her on a frantic course to reverse the spell. As evil forces close in, Christine must face the unthinkable: how far will she go to break free of the curse?
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Should Christine follow her instincts and givethe old woman a break? Or should she deny the extension to impress her boss, Mr. Jacks (David Paymer), and get a leg-up on a promotion? Christine fatefully chooses the latter, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home.
In retaliation, the old woman places the powerful curse of the Lamia on Christine, transforming her life into a living hell. Haunted by an evil spirit and misunderstood by a skeptical boyfriend, she seeks the aid of seer Rham Jas (Dileep Rao) to save her soul from eternal damnation. To help the shattered Christine return her life to normal, the psychic sets her on a frantic course to reverse the spell. As evil forces close in, Christine must face the unthinkable: how far will she go to break free of the curse?
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11:59 PM
to 1:50 AM
Ong Bak 2
32 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About The first ONG BAK hit the world like a heat-seeking guided missile. A missile in the shape of Tony Jaa, touted as the new Bruce Lee and the can't-miss martial-arts superstar of his generation. This prequel, set in medieval Thailand, features Jaa as a young nobleman who masters many martial arts disciplines in his journey of revenge. Expect stand-up-in-your-seat excitement as Jaa flies through the air; twisting, turning and demonstrating the utmost contempt for the laws of gravity. And now that he has added a full range of martial-arts styles to his repertoire, Jaa is twice as deadly and twice as exciting.
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11:59 PM
to 1:35 AM
Pontypool
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Grizzled morning radio legend Grant Mazzy has pissed off a lot of people in the radio business. That's why he finds himself announcing school closures and traffic reports from the basement headquarters of 'The Beacon' in the icy remote hamlet of Pontypool. On his way to work on a particularly frigid Valentine's Day morning, Mazzy is accosted by a dazed and mumbling woman banging at his car window who then suddenly disappears into the blizzard. As the workday continues, Mazzy and his radio station staff slowly discover that this seemingly innocuous occurrence may be linked to bizarre outbreaks of murder and bloody mayhem throughout the town. Veteran character actor Stephen McHattie (Hollis Mason/Nite Owl in the upcoming Watchmen movie) delivers a brilliant performance within the structure of writer Tony Burgess' taut War-of-the-Worlds-inspired script. Pontypool deftly sidesteps genre clichés and conventions, delivers plenty of white-knuckle suspense and enough post-movie-conversation fodder to last you to the end of the festival.
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11:59 PM
to 1:33 AM
The Horseman
16 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Horseman is the feature-length debut from 26 year old Australian director Steve Kastrissios. This raw, action-filled revenge drama, which received awards for both Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, signals the emergence of a serious new talent. The Horseman tells the story of Christian Forteski (played by veteran Australian actor Peter Marshall) whose drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur porn video. Christian deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through the network of pornographers involved in the video. The Horseman is a lean, tight film that boils down the revenge formula to its most essential, time-tested elements: an engaging story, interesting characters, and a powerful dose of skull-pounding violence
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11:00 AM
to 12:47 PM
11:00 AM
to 12:02 PM
The Least of These
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling conditions at the facility. This compelling film explores the role - and limits - of community activism, and considers how American rights and values apply to the least powerful among us.
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11:30 AM
to 12:56 PM
Made In China
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Slinkys, Pet Rocks, Ant FarmsÉbehind each of those great novelties is the story of a great Novelty Inventor. 'Made In China' is the story of one such inventor. Johnson, a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, is determined to bring his big idea Ð "a humorous domestic hygiene product" - to the world. Johnson's journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.
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11:30 AM
to 1:00 PM
The Dungeon Masters
29 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About An evil drow elf is displaced by Hurricane Katrina. A sanitation worker lures friends into a Sphere of Annihilation. A failed super-villian starts a cable-access show involving ninjas, puppets and a cooking segment.
These are the characters, real and imagined, of Keven McAlester's documentary THE DUNGEON MASTERS. Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the storied role-playing game, and its various descendants. As their baroque fantasies clash with mundane real lives, the characters find it increasingly difficult to allay their fear, loneliness, and disappointment with the game's imaginary triumphs. Soon the true heroic act of each character's real life emerges, and the film follows each as he or she summons the courage to face it. Along the way, THE DUNGEON MASTERS re-imagines the tropes of classic heroic cinema, creating an intimate portrait of minor struggles and triumphs writ large.
These are the characters, real and imagined, of Keven McAlester's documentary THE DUNGEON MASTERS. Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the storied role-playing game, and its various descendants. As their baroque fantasies clash with mundane real lives, the characters find it increasingly difficult to allay their fear, loneliness, and disappointment with the game's imaginary triumphs. Soon the true heroic act of each character's real life emerges, and the film follows each as he or she summons the courage to face it. Along the way, THE DUNGEON MASTERS re-imagines the tropes of classic heroic cinema, creating an intimate portrait of minor struggles and triumphs writ large.
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12:00 PM
to 1:30 PM
AMAC @ The Hideout: Austin School of Film
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Austin School of Film presents Brave Cinema 2009: No Censorship Here!--Award winning films from our Loud and Clear Youth Film Festival. Creative and brilliant shorts by our Featured Adult Filmmakers. Austin School of Film is a nonprofit independent film, art, and technology center that supports every aspect of production from idea to distribution. Our goal is to educate, train, and develop emerging artists of all ages to be active participants in shaping our 21st century culture
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12:00 PM
to 1:19 PM
Blood Trail
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About At times war photographer Robert King resembles a heroic misfit straight out of the pages of Scoop, thrown into the heart of battle, struggling to adapt to the brutal environment he finds himself in. Occasionally comic, often touching, more often dark, Blood Trail, the tale of Robert King, is a unique and personal journey, a film which follows him over 15 years and through three wars.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
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12:00 PM
to 1:24 PM
The Way We Get By
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A captivating and intimate look at three senior citizens in America as they struggle with the losses that come with growing old and the uplifting ways they rediscover their reasons for living. By greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine, Bill Knight, Joan Gaudet, and Jerry Mundy find the strength to overcome their own personal battles and demonstrate the meaning of community at a time when most Americans have lost faith in their country.
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1:00 PM
to 2:27 PM
Rats and Cats
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Darren McWarren was an Australian TV legend but fell from grace after an indiscretion with a young co-star. Now living in a backwater town his life is put under the microscope by a tabloid journalist researching a 'where are they now' piece.
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1:30 PM
to 2:56 PM
The Yes Men Fix the World
54 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr, 2009) is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses.
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2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
AMAC @ The Hideout: Reel Women
7 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A selection of short films made by REEL WOMEN members including CC Stinson, D.J. Morrison, Gabriela Quijano, Mary Tucker, Kathy Davis, Sally & Kelly Jackson, Alpha, Karen Aptekar, Cheryal Loosmore. Included are narratives and documentaries ranging from a parody of a scene from a Coen Brothers' film to a plea for governmental support for medical funding for foster children.
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2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
MINE
14 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About MINE is a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who determines the fate of the animals - and the people - involved? A compelling meditation on race, class and the power of compassion, MINE examines how we treat animals as an extension of how we view and treat each other.
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2:00 PM
to 3:18 PM
TRIMPIN: the sound of invention
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION is an amusing journey through the musical world of an eccentric creative genius.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.
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2:30 PM
to 3:53 PM
Garbage Dreams
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys Ð Adham, a bright precocious 17 year old; Osama, a charming impish 16 year old; Nabil, a shy artistic 18 year old Ð born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is the home to 60,000 'Zaballeen'(or 'Zabbaleen'), arabic for 'garbage people.'
When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
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2:30 PM
to 4:20 PM
The Paranoids
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About An aspiring screenwriter from Buenos Aires, he lives in fear of success, STDs and -- especially -- his doorman. We meet Luciano during one of his typically awkward days: he has a narcoleptic attack on the job (he's a children's entertainer, to boot), obsessively calls an HIV helpline after a random sexual encounter and accidentally sends his best friend to the hospital after slamming a door in his face.
Things become even more uncomfortable when Luciano's childhood friend Manuel returns to Buenos Aires from Madrid, where he is the producer of a successful television show called The Paranoids. Manuel is in town to make an Argentine version of the hit, and Luciano becomes especially perturbed when he discovers that he provided the inspiration for the show's main character, who even shares his name.
When Manuel leaves on a business trip to Chile, his beautiful new girlfriend Sofia (JazmÌ n Stuart) decides to stay with Luciano, a turn of events that amounts to a nightmare for her fearful host. At first, Sofia sees Luciano superficially; to her, he is just the paranoid freak her boyfriend has described. After spending time with him, however, she begins to see Luciano for what he is -- a misunderstood, honest and genuine person. In sum, he is the complete opposite of Manuel.
Things become even more uncomfortable when Luciano's childhood friend Manuel returns to Buenos Aires from Madrid, where he is the producer of a successful television show called The Paranoids. Manuel is in town to make an Argentine version of the hit, and Luciano becomes especially perturbed when he discovers that he provided the inspiration for the show's main character, who even shares his name.
When Manuel leaves on a business trip to Chile, his beautiful new girlfriend Sofia (JazmÌ n Stuart) decides to stay with Luciano, a turn of events that amounts to a nightmare for her fearful host. At first, Sofia sees Luciano superficially; to her, he is just the paranoid freak her boyfriend has described. After spending time with him, however, she begins to see Luciano for what he is -- a misunderstood, honest and genuine person. In sum, he is the complete opposite of Manuel.
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3:30 PM
to 4:31 PM
It was great, but I was ready to come home.
24 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About 'It was great, but I was ready to come home.' follows best friends Cam and Annie as they navigate their way through the mountains and coastal towns of Costa Rica, looking for old comforts amidst new experiences. By turns tender and critical in its approach to its characters, Kris Swanberg's debut feature is an intimate and introspective look at the ebb and flow of female friendship.
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4:00 PM
to 5:31 PM
Best Worst Movie
37 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About In 1989, unwitting Utah actors starred in the undisputed Worst Movie in History: TROLL 2. Two decades later, the legendarily inept film's child star unravels the improbable, heartfelt story of an Alabamadentist-turned-cult movie icon and an Italian filmmaker who come to terms with this genuine, internationally revered cinematic failure.
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4:00 PM
to 5:31 PM
Goodbye Solo
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, GOODBYE SOLO deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America.
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'
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4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
The Forgotten Tree
7 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About A documentary that revisits a famous film location: the slums where "Los Olvidados" was shot more than fifty years ago. The people of this area of Mexico City still live by the train tracks, just like they did in Bu–uel's masterpiece. "The Forgotten Tree" captures fragments of the lives of Juan, Gaby, Noemi and Ivonne, who attempt to escape the cycle of extreme poverty and violence in which they live. However, the decisions they make only seem to sink them further into the abyss of their grim everyday life and their tragic fate.
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4:30 PM
to 5:58 PM
Breaking Upwards
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Breaking Upwards' follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up. The film blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction by casting real life couple (and filmmakers) Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves. Together they explore alternatives to monogamy, inventing rules and boundaries in an effort to avoid pain. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
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4:30 PM
to 6:02 PM
Severe Clear
9 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraqi. Through their cameras we see the raw sounds of war, capturing the harrowing three hundred mile charge to Baghdad through hostile enemy territory. The footage used to create Severe Clear was never shot for the purpose of making a movie. In this digital age of embedded reporters, the film truly strips the barriers between audience and soldier, personalizing the fear, moral conundrum and adrenaline rush of life on the battlefield. Severe Clear offers an unflinching look at the uncertainty, disorder and chaos of war from the remarkable perspective of one Marine.
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5:00 PM
to 6:36 PM
Artois the Goat
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known, and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. She has taken a new job in Detroit and to follow her means signing his life over to his soul-sapping career in artificial flavor additives. To stay behind and pursue his newfound passion for fine artisanal goat cheese, is to risk losing her forever. Despite his lack of resources, experience, or basic competency in the field of agriculture, Virgil heads for the hills (literally) with a felonious German baker, a grave-digging hermit, and a tiny white goat named Artois. With Angie awaiting his imminent return and a conference of the International Cheese Consortium just a few months away, he has no choice but to go for broke. Throw away everything he has on a gamble: That, before it is too late, he can craft a cheese that will change the world. A cheese that will buy him a new life. A cheese of destiny.
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5:30 PM
to 6:40 PM
Crude Independence
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Crude Independence is a documentary film about the heartland in the process of transplanting itself, and its new heart is pumping oil. In 2006, the United States Geological Survey estimated there to be more than 200 billion barrels of crude oil resting in beneath western North Dakota, and now oil companies from far and wide are descending on small rural towns across the state with men and machinery in tow. First-time director Noah Hutton takes us to the town of Stanley (population 1300) and captures the change wrought by the unprecedented boom. Through revealing interviews and breathtaking imagery of the northern plains, Crude Independence is a rumination on the future of small town AmericaÑa tale of change at the hands of the global energy market and America's unyielding thirst for oil.
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6:00 PM
to 7:30 PM
Calling Home
1 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About For most Londoners, home is here but also somewhere else, at the other end of a phone line. This short documentary, entirely shot inside phone booths in cheap international call centers, is a gripping, emotional portrait of long distance relationships between immigrants and their families in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.
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6:00 PM
to 7:23 PM
Rene
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About 'Why has my shitty life turned out like this? No-one knows. Not even God. God's on holiday and he's reading porn' Ð an excerpt from Diary of the Forgotten, the journal kept by the main protagonist in another of Helena T e t'kov‡'s long-term documentaries. With raw authenticity, the director records the luckless fate of René over a period of twenty years as he yo-yos between prison and freedom. The life of René, who successfully stylises himself in the role of a desperado, unfolds against a backdrop of important political events occurring in the Czech Republic and beyond its borders. The Velvet Revolution, the presidential election, 9/11 and the Czech Republic's accession to the EU - all this is 'digested' by René mostly from the confines of various prisons.
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6:30 PM
to 7:56 PM
The 2 Bobs
47 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Just as they finish their groundbreaking violent video-game masterpiece, the two gaming legends known as THE TWO BOBS discover that their precious game-software has been stolen... and with it, their livelihoods, genius reputations, everything they own. To get back their game--and their lives--The Two Bobs and their fellow-geek employees MUNCH, DOOFUS, and THE DARK PRINCE are forced to "turn detective" and plunge into the strange world of Christian Venture Capitalists, aged Dixie Mafia hoodlums, and bizarre Internet Spammers that inhabit Austin Texas. Just as all seems lost, The Two Bobs meet THE TWO JANES, ("Sisters Against Spam"), and in a surprising development, the Bobs/Janes tension-filled first date finally unravels the mystery of the stolen game and reveals the villain behind it, The SPAM KING, and his dastardly plan to use their groundbreaking software to build a nefarious Internet/Cable porn empire... The Bobs and their allies must stop The Spam King and get back their game at all costs.
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6:30 PM
to 8:00 PM
The Slammin' Salmon
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Former heavyweight boxing champ, Cleon Salmon (MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN), is the celebrity owner of an upscale Miami restaurant. In debt to the Yakuza, the Champ 'inspires' his waitstaff (BROKEN LIZARD) with a one-night-only contest: Top selling waiter gets $10,000; lowest selling waiter gets his face punched in by the Champ himself. It's one funny, frantic night as Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, BEERFEST) does their best Glengarry Glen Ross in 'THE SLAMMIN' SALMON.'
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7:00 PM
to 8:24 PM
Luckey
15 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About As this verite documentary film unfolds, viewers are drawn into an intimate family struggle. Tom Luckey is coping with recent and dramatic changes in his life. A sculptor, Tom was designing a three-story-tall climbable sculpture, the masterpiece of his career building interactive art, when he fell through a window and became paralyzed below his shoulders. Determined to finish his sculpture, Tom turned to his oldest son Spencer, an architect, for help. Spencer sees an opportunity to work with his father and to reclaim his boyhood relationship, which was interrupted by divorce and remarriage. As they try to forge a working relationship from a complex father-son relationship, Tom and Spencer find themselves reeling emotionally during the first year of Tom's paralysis, making working together explosive. Family dynamics are complicated by the fact that Tom's wife, Ettie, and Spencer don't get along. Stepmother and stepson, they become Tom's primary caretakers and companions, but can barely bring themselves to interact with one another. As Tom regains strength and ambition, but not mobility, enabling his artistic work while maintaining independence and sanity becomes a tricky balance for Tom, Spencer, and Ettie. LUCKEY is a portrait of a family in crisis and one man's efforts to create a new life in the wake of a devastating accident.
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7:00 PM
to 8:15 PM
Say My Name
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About In a hip hop and R'n'B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Name speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs. This worldwide documentary takes viewers on vibrant tour of urban culture from hip hop's birthplace in the Bronx, to grime on London's Eastside and all points in between. Featuring interviews and performances from a diverse cast including Remy Ma, Jean Grea, Erykah Badu, Estelle and newcomers Choc Thai, Invincible and Miz Korona, this powerful doc delves into the personal stories of women balancing professional dreams with the realities of poor urban communities, race, sexism, and motherhood. These are women turning adversity into art.
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7:00 PM
to 8:49 PM
That Evening Sun
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks' home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he discovers that his son has leased the farm to Abner's old enemy and his white trash family. Not one to suffer fools or go down easy, Abner moves into the old tenant shack on the property and declares that he won't leave until the farm is returned to his possession. But Lonzo Choat, the new tenant, has no intention to move out or give in to the old man's demands.
This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
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7:30 PM
to 9:16 PM
Afterschool
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Robert is 16-years-old. His coming of age is interrupted when he witnesses the death by overdose of a pair of Twins in his high school hallway. His troubles and insecurities seem insignificant in comparison to this tragic event; and yet as the school continues to hold memorials and instills an extreme zero-tolerance anti- drug policy, Robert can't help but feel more and more distant from the tragedy.
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8:00 PM
to 9:20 PM
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
32 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is the first documentary to dramatize the rich saga of American movie reviewing. Directed by Boston Phoenix critic, Gerald Peary, this movie offers an insider's view of the critics' profession, with commentary from America's best-regarded reviewers, including Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Kenneth Turan. We also hear from articulate Internet reviewers, including Harry Knowles and Karina Longworth. Their stories are entertaining, humorous, personal and also historic. From the raw beginnings of criticism before The Birth of a Nation to the incendiary Pauline Kael-Andrew Sarris debates of the 1960s and 70s to the battle today between youthful on-liners and the print establishment, this documentary tells all.
Tags Documentary Feature
8:00 PM
to 9:30 PM
Love on Delivery
12 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In a remote fishing community in the north of Denmark live 575 Thai women married to Danish men. Fifteen years ago, there were almost none. But Sommai was there Ð a former sex worker from Pattaya. Now, she and a group of other industrious and strong Thai women are trying to find a man for Sommai's young niece Kaeh who is in Denmark on a three-month tourist visa. A different kind of love story, the film gives an intimate insight into the special relationships between Danish men and their Thai wives who all try to outlive the idea of Western happiness and thereby achieve respect and social status back home in Thailand.
Tags Documentary Feature
8:00 PM
to 9:30 PM
Ticket to Paradise
13 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In a small village in the north east of Thailand there are two kinds of families. Those who have a daughter married to a Dane, and those who don't. The first mentioned live in concrete buildings, the latter in small wooden cottages. Sommai is the queen of the village. Normally she works at a factory in Denmark. But now she is back in Thailand, where the young girls flock around her. They hope she can help them find a Danish husband. Life in the west, however, has its price and the women often need to make difficult decisions while pursuing their dreams. For the newly married Kae this means that she has to leave her child behind. And for the young girl Saeng, the ticket to paradise is through the sex-bars in Pattaya.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:29 PM
Office Space
79 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Director Mike Judge will present a special screening of the cult phenomenon film on the occasion of its 10Anniversary.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:15 PM
to 10:26 PM
Sunshine
13 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About It all starts with getting knocked up. An unplanned pregnancy for an unplanned girl sets off SUNSHINE, a playful, yet ultimately stirring self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search for answers through reconnection with her biological mother. Woven together from over 10 years of super 8 and video home movies, intimate family interviews, shimmering dance sequences and stylized reenactments, SUNSHINE offers a refreshingly rare glimpse on the current day transformations taking place within our most sacred of institutions.Young, pregnant, single and unprepared, the daughter/director struggles with the incredible ironies of the family, as she struggles to raise her own daughter and understand the plight of her biological mother.
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9:30 PM
to 10:57 PM
Observe and Report
99 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt (SETH ROGEN) patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist. The master of his domain, he combats skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when he can swap his flashlight for a badge and a gun. Ronnie's delusions of grandeur are put to the test when the mall is struck by a flasher. Driven by his personal duty to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, Ronnie seizes the opportunity to showcase his underappreciated law enforcement talents on a grand scale, hoping his solution of this crime will earn him a coveted spot at the police academy and the heart of his elusive dream girl Brandi (ANNA FARIS), the hot make-up counter clerk who won't give him the time of day. But his single-minded pursuit of glory launches a turf war with the equally competitive Detective Harrison (RAY LIOTTA) of the Conway Police, and Ronnie is confronted with the challenge of not only catching the flasher, but getting him before the real cops do.
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9:30 PM
to 10:13 PM
9:30 PM
to 11:02 PM
The Overbrook Brothers
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Jason comes home for Christmas and his arch-rival brother, Todd, has a big surprise waiting for him -- but it's not a gift. It's secret information: The reason why Jason has always been the "least favorite" child, and it sends our hero on a hilarious cross-country journey to find out the truth about himself and his family.
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10:00 PM
to 11:30 PM
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line
19 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Over a period of three years, the stencil artist Peter Gibson, aka Roadsworth, made his mark on Montreal in the early hours of the morning by launching a self-described "attack on the streets." Armed with spray paint and handmade stencils, he began to play with the language of the streets, overlaying city asphalt markings with his own images: a crosswalk became a giant boot print, vines choked up traffic dividers, and electrical plugs filled parking spots. Each piece begged the question, Who owns public space?
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line details the artist's prosecution at home and his travels abroad to France, London and Amsterdam, as he imprints himself legitimately (and illegitimately) on foreign streets. The film reflects Roadsworth's personal struggle to defend his work, define himself as an artist and address difficult questions about art and freedom of expression.
With Roadsworth: Crossing the Line, filmmaker Alan Kohl provides a portrait of an artist who provokes debate about the significance of art in urban spaces.
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line details the artist's prosecution at home and his travels abroad to France, London and Amsterdam, as he imprints himself legitimately (and illegitimately) on foreign streets. The film reflects Roadsworth's personal struggle to defend his work, define himself as an artist and address difficult questions about art and freedom of expression.
With Roadsworth: Crossing the Line, filmmaker Alan Kohl provides a portrait of an artist who provokes debate about the significance of art in urban spaces.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:30 PM
to 1:04 AM
The Horseman
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About The Horseman is the feature-length debut from 26 year old Australian director Steve Kastrissios. This raw, action-filled revenge drama, which received awards for both Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, signals the emergence of a serious new talent. The Horseman tells the story of Christian Forteski (played by veteran Australian actor Peter Marshall) whose drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur porn video. Christian deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through the network of pornographers involved in the video. The Horseman is a lean, tight film that boils down the revenge formula to its most essential, time-tested elements: an engaging story, interesting characters, and a powerful dose of skull-pounding violence
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11:59 PM
to 1:23 AM
Lesbian Vampire Killers
60 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Not content to bank on the power of a salacious title, director Phil Claydon's LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS packs as much of a punch as the name implies. Matthew Horne and James Corden, the comedy duo behind the award-winning BBC comedy series GAVIN AND STACEY, are two hapless losers whose idyllic country holiday is shattered by the arrival of an army of thirsty lesbian vampires. James Corden owns the film with a non-stop barrage of rapid-fire tom-foolery and Paul McGann (the 'I' of WITHNAIL AND I) chews every inch of scenery as the vicar with a hearse heavy with undead-slaying devices. With heaping helpings of gratuitous skin, violence and onscreen beer consumption, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS seems tailor made for a witching hour debut at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:29 AM
Trailers From Hell w/ Joe Dante
41 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Even a bad movie can have a great trailer.
Trailers -- you know -- those fast-paced 2-to-4 minute theatrical promo shorts that have preceded the Feature Attraction since the dawn of sound? An exciting montage of all The Best Parts of a movie the exhibitors want you to need to see! Full of swirling letters screaming hyperbolic promises of THRILLS! ACTION! MYSTERY! ROMANCE! Packing all the highlights of a whole picture into its own mini-movie in just a few minutes!
TRAILERS FROM HELL is a series that showcases classic-era movie Previews of Coming Attractions with particular emphasis on the lurid, the extreme and the outrageous.
Trailers -- you know -- those fast-paced 2-to-4 minute theatrical promo shorts that have preceded the Feature Attraction since the dawn of sound? An exciting montage of all The Best Parts of a movie the exhibitors want you to need to see! Full of swirling letters screaming hyperbolic promises of THRILLS! ACTION! MYSTERY! ROMANCE! Packing all the highlights of a whole picture into its own mini-movie in just a few minutes!
TRAILERS FROM HELL is a series that showcases classic-era movie Previews of Coming Attractions with particular emphasis on the lurid, the extreme and the outrageous.
Tags Shorts Program
11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
American Boy
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Scorsese and friends are entertained by Steven Prince's stories about his middle-class Jewish childhood, his experience with drugs and guns, and his relationship with his father.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:00 AM
to 11:52 AM
American Prince
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About In 1978, Director, Martin Scorsese turned his cameras on his friend, Steven Prince. Best known for his role as the gun salesman in Taxi Driver, Steven was a true-life raconteur, an actor, an ex-drug addict, and road manager for Neil Diamond, Steven's life was to Scorsese more fascinating than what any screenwriter could dream up. The documentary that emerged, "American Boy"was to become one of Scorsese most compelling, but often overlooked projects.
Now three decades later and in a new setting, Steven Prince recounts his days since American Boy and tells why he turned his back on the entertainment industry. Still, as he composes his latest chapter, his ability to grip an audience remains. From placating construction boss to rock-star-girlfriend pacifier; concrete bunker builder to Cannes festival guest, Steven, the American Boy, extends the epic, as the American Prince.
American Boy will be screened immediately following American Prince.
Now three decades later and in a new setting, Steven Prince recounts his days since American Boy and tells why he turned his back on the entertainment industry. Still, as he composes his latest chapter, his ability to grip an audience remains. From placating construction boss to rock-star-girlfriend pacifier; concrete bunker builder to Cannes festival guest, Steven, the American Boy, extends the epic, as the American Prince.
American Boy will be screened immediately following American Prince.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:00 AM
to 12:12 PM
Letters to the President
16 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Exclusive access film about President Ahmadinejad of Iran, and what life is like under his regime. The film takes as its narrative thread the letters that supposedly ten million Iranians have written to the President.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:00 AM
to 12:34 PM
Over the Hills and Far Away
14 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about one family's struggle to find answers to their son's autism. Shot over the course of two years, this film follows the Isaacson family as they journey on horseback across Mongolia from healer to healer, and the amazing healings they found for their son, and for themselves. An inspiration to think outside the box, a travel adventure, an insight into shamanic traditions, the autistic mind, and man's relationship with animals; at its heart, Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about a family that went to the edge of the earth to find a way into their son's life.
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11:30 AM
to 12:55 PM
New World Order
32 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About New World Order is a documentary about conspiracy theorists. The film is a behind the scenes look at the underground anti-globalist movement. This growing movement targets the annual Bilderberg conference, and the 9/11 attacks as focal points in the alleged global conspiracy.
Alex Jones, a celebrity radio host, and underground cult hero, is the main character of the film. The film chronicles Alex (of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), and four other conspiracy theorists, on their ceaseless quests to expose the 'massive global conspiracy' that they believe threatens the future of humanity.
Alex Jones, a celebrity radio host, and underground cult hero, is the main character of the film. The film chronicles Alex (of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), and four other conspiracy theorists, on their ceaseless quests to expose the 'massive global conspiracy' that they believe threatens the future of humanity.
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12:00 PM
to 1:30 PM
Gaza Sderot
10 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Gaza Sderot, life in spite of everything
Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel): Report on the life of men, women and children in two cities on the Israeli Palestinian border. Tell about the reality on both sides. Despite of many dangers, air bombings and rocket attacks, those people never stop working, loving, and dreaming. Life despite of everything.
During two months short videos (2 minutes each) on Gaza and Sderot. Every day, and only on the Internet, one video from Palestine, the other one from Israel. One without the other only would show part of the reality.
This program was broadcasted daily on the Internet from the 26th of October to the 23th of december 2008. (40 episodes - 80 videos).
Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel): Report on the life of men, women and children in two cities on the Israeli Palestinian border. Tell about the reality on both sides. Despite of many dangers, air bombings and rocket attacks, those people never stop working, loving, and dreaming. Life despite of everything.
During two months short videos (2 minutes each) on Gaza and Sderot. Every day, and only on the Internet, one video from Palestine, the other one from Israel. One without the other only would show part of the reality.
This program was broadcasted daily on the Internet from the 26th of October to the 23th of december 2008. (40 episodes - 80 videos).
Tags SXGlobal Interactive
1:30 PM
to 3:02 PM
Severe Clear
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraqi. Through their cameras we see the raw sounds of war, capturing the harrowing three hundred mile charge to Baghdad through hostile enemy territory. The footage used to create Severe Clear was never shot for the purpose of making a movie. In this digital age of embedded reporters, the film truly strips the barriers between audience and soldier, personalizing the fear, moral conundrum and adrenaline rush of life on the battlefield. Severe Clear offers an unflinching look at the uncertainty, disorder and chaos of war from the remarkable perspective of one Marine.
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1:30 PM
to 3:03 PM
Splinterheads
24 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About For Justin Frost, a typical day is rolling out of bed at one, practicing improvised karate, and mowing grass for his best friend's landscaping business. But when a traveling carnival lands in his small town, Justin falls for a sexy con-artist and wakes up to the life he has yet to begin living
Tags Narrative Feature
1:30 PM
to 2:59 PM
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
24 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About In Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, filmmaker Bradley Beesley visits and explores an oddball American phenomenon: that of the prison rodeo. He journeys with his cameras to Oklahoma State Prison - the only remaining U.S. prison rodeo that is actually located on penitentiary grounds - and watches, cameras rolling, as ill-prepared male and female convicts risk their lives for the promise of cash and a brief spotlight.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:01 PM
It was great, but I was ready to come home.
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About 'It was great, but I was ready to come home.' follows best friends Cam and Annie as they navigate their way through the mountains and coastal towns of Costa Rica, looking for old comforts amidst new experiences. By turns tender and critical in its approach to its characters, Kris Swanberg's debut feature is an intimate and introspective look at the ebb and flow of female friendship.
Tags Narrative Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
Journey To The End Of Coal
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Journey To The End Of Coal is a web-documentary that lets you investigate the world of Chinese coal miners who risk their lives in state-owned and private coal plants.
At your own pace and will, you can get the story first hand from the locals if you manage to avoid the "friendly" officials who want to send you back to Beijing...
At your own pace and will, you can get the story first hand from the locals if you manage to avoid the "friendly" officials who want to send you back to Beijing...
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2:00 PM
to 3:16 PM
Objectified
118 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It's about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It's about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
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4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
A Vida Politica
3 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In the struggle for your rights can hair be a weapon?
A Vida Politica is about Negra Jho, a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
A Vida Politica is about Negra Jho, a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Bitch Academy
14 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Young women in St. Petersburg are going to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They want to learn how to be a successful bitch. Bitch academy/ Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary of the early Russian capitalism, which determines in an atmosphere of fear and hope, the dreams and intimacies of it's young generations.
Social relationships in Russian society have changed a great deal in recent years. In this turbulent period, the country's own conception of its women has come under great pressure, and this has major consequences for how men and women get along with each other. What is expected of you as a young woman these days? And even more importantly, how can you make sure to appeal to the contemporary, successful Russian man? The answer to these questions is the Bitch Academy, a training school for the modern-day gold digger.The male course instructor employs unorthodox methods. Boosted by his advice, exercises and role play, a striking game unfolds between him and his female students. In an atmosphere of sexism and abuse of power, a world of lust and temptation is created in which there's only room for the most ruthless seductress. The students emulate that image, but behind their sexy masks lurks a world of great uncertainty and sorrow.Filmmaker Alina Rudnitskaya only observes. Together with her crew, she snakes her way around the tiny classroom and films a shocking portrait of a society adrift.
Social relationships in Russian society have changed a great deal in recent years. In this turbulent period, the country's own conception of its women has come under great pressure, and this has major consequences for how men and women get along with each other. What is expected of you as a young woman these days? And even more importantly, how can you make sure to appeal to the contemporary, successful Russian man? The answer to these questions is the Bitch Academy, a training school for the modern-day gold digger.The male course instructor employs unorthodox methods. Boosted by his advice, exercises and role play, a striking game unfolds between him and his female students. In an atmosphere of sexism and abuse of power, a world of lust and temptation is created in which there's only room for the most ruthless seductress. The students emulate that image, but behind their sexy masks lurks a world of great uncertainty and sorrow.Filmmaker Alina Rudnitskaya only observes. Together with her crew, she snakes her way around the tiny classroom and films a shocking portrait of a society adrift.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Children of the Eclipse
2 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In February 2008, hundreds of children and their families converge on Queens Hospital in Jessore. They come from all over Bangladesh, but these children have one thing in common -- they each suffer from disfiguring cleft lips and palates. For the duration of a five day 'camp,' local plastic surgeons operate on the children in an effort to mend their lips and speech habits. But Bangladeshis are not accustomed to hospitals -- the pressure can be too much for the waiting parents.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Forty Men for the Yukon
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About German-born Frank Erl, a 75 year-old gold miner and English-born Geordie Dobson, an 82 year-old saloon owner live isolated in the outskirts of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Surviving tragedies, war, divorce and the construction of a 38,000 beer-bottle house, they now face the universal decision of how to move forward in life.
In keeping with the character and mood of the northern Yukon, FORTY MEN FOR THE YUKON is a patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
In keeping with the character and mood of the northern Yukon, FORTY MEN FOR THE YUKON is a patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:25 PM
Four Boxes
18 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Trevor Grainger, Amber Croft and Rob Rankrus run Go Time Liquidators Ð an ambulance-chasing eBay auction business. In a dead man's destroyed suburban house they start watching a bookmarked surveillance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. If fourboxes.tv isn't just more internet BS, then a crazed creep they call Havoc is building enough bombs to, like, kill everybody.
Tags Narrative Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Home
3 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About What drives our fascination with the ownership of bricks and mortar? The film explores ideas of home through the voice of Joe McGarry, Director of Homeless charity Arlington House in Camden. In his poetic monologue he reflects on his life of transience as a homeless person and his search for the meaning of 'home'. His mantra offers a philosophical perspective in the idea that 'Homelessness' and the 'home' lie within us, rather than in our material wealth or through our physical possessions.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
King of Laughter
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About In the 1950s people laughed 18 minutes a day on average, now the average is 6 minutes. Belachew Girma is determined to try and turn this round. Belachew currently holds the world record for the longest laugh, ninety solid minutes without stopping. He believes that he can speared his message of positivity to anyone he meets. 'King of laughter' tests his theory by sending Belachew on a laughter journey through Britain's saddest town.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Lies
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About Three perfectly true stories about lying.
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4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
MINE
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About MINE is a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who determines the fate of the animals - and the people - involved? A compelling meditation on race, class and the power of compassion, MINE examines how we treat animals as an extension of how we view and treat each other.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
Pockets
4 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About This short documentary explores the common pocket. It is a universal part of our everyday lives. We all keep items in our pockets to take them from point A to point B, to keep them safe, to keep them close by for ease of use, to give us good luck, to remind us something. What lies within our pockets often reveals more about us than we would expect. It is an insight into our personality, personal lives and social background.
Tags Documentary Short
4:00 PM
to 5:20 PM
SXGlobal Shorts
13 Attendees
Location
Hideout
About 'King of Laughter', UK, directed by Nick Hillel, In the 1950's people laughed an average 18 minutes a day, now the average is 6 minutes. World Laughter Master Belachew Girma from Ethiopia believes he can turn this around in Britain's saddest town, Walsall.
'Lies', Sweden, directed by Jonas Odell. Three perfectly true stories about lying.
'A Vida Politica', Brazil, directed by Katrina Mansoor. Negra Jho is a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
'Children of the Eclipse', Australia, directed by Zane Lovitt. In February 2008, hundreds of children and their families converge on a hospital in Bangladesh. They each suffer from disfiguring cleft lips and palates. For the duration of a five day camp, local plastic surgeons operate on the children in an effort to mend their lips and speech habits.
'Home', UK, directed by Chris Allen. What is the true meaning of 'home' in the 21st Century?
'Forty Men for the Yukon', Canada, directed by Tony Massil. A patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
'Pockets', UK, directed by James Lees. What do the contents of your pockets say about you?
'Bitch Academy', Russia, directed by Alina Rudnitskay. Young women in St. Petersburg are going to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. Bitch academy/ Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary of early Russian capitalism, which proliferates in an atmosphere of fear and hope, the dreams and intimacies of its young generations.
'Lies', Sweden, directed by Jonas Odell. Three perfectly true stories about lying.
'A Vida Politica', Brazil, directed by Katrina Mansoor. Negra Jho is a larger than life activist from Salvador, Brazil. Her form of activism is hairdressing, and she uses it to engage and empower her many clients and admirers.
'Children of the Eclipse', Australia, directed by Zane Lovitt. In February 2008, hundreds of children and their families converge on a hospital in Bangladesh. They each suffer from disfiguring cleft lips and palates. For the duration of a five day camp, local plastic surgeons operate on the children in an effort to mend their lips and speech habits.
'Home', UK, directed by Chris Allen. What is the true meaning of 'home' in the 21st Century?
'Forty Men for the Yukon', Canada, directed by Tony Massil. A patient and observational look at two men who have spent their lives moving at their own pace and exploring where their interests take them.
'Pockets', UK, directed by James Lees. What do the contents of your pockets say about you?
'Bitch Academy', Russia, directed by Alina Rudnitskay. Young women in St. Petersburg are going to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. Bitch academy/ Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary of early Russian capitalism, which proliferates in an atmosphere of fear and hope, the dreams and intimacies of its young generations.
Tags Shorts Program
4:00 PM
to 5:49 PM
That Evening Sun
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks' home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he discovers that his son has leased the farm to Abner's old enemy and his white trash family. Not one to suffer fools or go down easy, Abner moves into the old tenant shack on the property and declares that he won't leave until the farm is returned to his possession. But Lonzo Choat, the new tenant, has no intention to move out or give in to the old man's demands.
This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
Tags Narrative Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:38 PM
Wake Up
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About One day four years ago Jonas Elrod woke up with the inexplicable ability tosee and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts. The documentary WAKE UPfollows his journey across the country and overseas for the next three yearsto find out why.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:30 PM
to 4:37 PM
Alexander Family Farm
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Kim Alexander lives as close to the city as you can get and still be country. The furthest an egg travels from his farm is 30 miles, a distance unheard of in our global food economy. Though a staple in American diets, the origins of our eggs can be a mystery.
Tags Documentary Short
4:30 PM
to 4:36 PM
Casimiro
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Casimiro is the story of an illegal immigrant living in central Texas. As we follow him throughout his daily routine we realize the difficulties, both physical and emotional he is forced to confront. Casimiro begins his day trying to write an encouraging and positive letter to his family back in his homeland. As the day progresses, we can experience that the American dream Casimiro was after has resulted in a much more difficult journey, one which he has to overcome alone. His solitude and inability to adapt to a strange world ultimately create a distance between Casimiro and his family, one that goes beyond the physical boundaries of countries and cultures.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:38 PM
Coffee
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About COFFEE is about Sara, a woman whose relationship has fallen apart. She is waking up on this particular morning to a disheveled house, half packed in boxes. Going about her morning in a daze, Sara allows innocuous little things to affect her. When it's time for a sincere reaction to her surroundings, she simply feels numb. Coffee might help.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Entre Lineas (Between the Lines)
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Entre Lineas" is a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
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4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Jack & Holly
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jack and Holly are a young couple who struggle as hard economic times put pressure on their relationship.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:42 PM
Love, Sadie
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life through the intimate exchange of handwritten notes.
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4:30 PM
to 6:06 PM
Texas Shorts
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Jack & Holly', directed by Robbie Bourland. A young husband has lost his job and is reluctant to lean on his wife for emotion and finical support.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
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4:30 PM
to 4:44 PM
Tough Love
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Tough Love' is ostensibly about boxing. Really, though, it's about boys and men looking for love and affection through time-honored rituals. Instead of teaching violence and aggression, the sport shows young men nurturing and tenderness, as each generation passes along its knowledge and appreciation of the sport to the next.
Tags Documentary Short
4:30 PM
to 4:38 PM
Uprush
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the brink of adulthood, swimming can seem like the most dangerous thing in the world.
Tags Narrative Short
4:30 PM
to 4:35 PM
Ventilo
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A drama about a young woman's journey through a fantasy world of feather fans and beauty. She soon discovers that life is not an open door. There are many ways to fail and only one way through. Acceptance, rejection, fear, and courage all have their place in Ventilo.
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4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
We Live in Public
38 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of 'the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of', visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner ('DIG!'), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. Josh Harris, often called the 'Warhol of the Web' through the infamous dot.com boom of the 1990's, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network and created his vision of the future, an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the millennium.
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5:00 PM
to 6:12 PM
Pulling John
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About 'Pulling John' is the universal story of a champion, who after 25 years of success is now burdened with the inevitable transformation of aging. John Brzenk, the legendary armwrestler, who works as an airline mechanic by day must decide whether to leave the sport he was raised on or wait to be defeated by 2 up and coming titans. Voevoda from Russia, Bagent from West Virginia and Yoshi from Tokyo are the colorful characters who have been raised on the legend of John Brzenk. These men define themselves by not becoming champions but by defeating the legend that is known as Brzenk. In a philosophical and thrilling ride, 'Pulling John' culminates at the Zloty Tur Championship in Warsaw, where Bagent and Voevoda have the chance of their life, to dethrone the conflicted Brzenk.
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6:30 PM
to 8:00 PM
The Hurt Locker
34 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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6:30 PM
to 7:36 PM
The Last Beekeeper
25 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Have you ever seen a lazy bee?' asks beekeeper Jim Robertson. Bees have worked tirelessly for man for centuries. But now they are vanishing. Wrangling with the enormity of this loss, 'The Last Beekeeper' follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (form South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of one year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. As they all take their bees to California's enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires the presence of the majority of bees in the US) it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind that they are in. 'If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?' asks Matt Hutchens . It's not just a question for the beekeepers, it's a question for all of us.
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6:30 PM
to 7:53 PM
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
31 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Described by the New York Times as "Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv", Tj Jagodowski and David Pasquesi have become living legends in their field. Their performances of entirely improvised, character-driven, often hilarious and wholly original one-hour plays have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Exploring the folds of faith that underlie their relationship and the transcendental forces that govern their improvisation, TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP features an unforgettable live performance recorded at New York's Barrow Street Theater. Whether you're a student of improvisation or simply interested in the underpinnings of human imagination and the depths of mutual understanding, this journey will leave you laughing, guessing, and in awe of this altogether remarkable feat.
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7:00 PM
to 8:29 PM
Eggshells
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Eggshells, an American Freak Illumination Time & Space Fantasy of the exploding Austin inevitable. A crypto embryonic hyper-electric presence duels with itself as Vince Sobrosek goes to the bathroom yelling "listen to yellow dog, goddamn yellow dog!" while the uninvited dinner guests make love to the ghosts of Don Levy and Nic Roeg in a threesome with Carlos Casteneda in a bedroom that paints itself on its way to a wedding and your girlfriend and her lover dance out of the hemoglobin balloon forest as the writer-man takes an axe to the windshield and runs home naked to make love to the girl he loves for her breasts and they all grab seats under the transmogrifying hair dryers as Vince proclaims, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free." BYO
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7:00 PM
to 8:30 PM
The Promised Land
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Promised Land is a film that takes you to the heart of Louisiana's musical phenomenon - Swamp Pop. Shot in South-west Louisiana we meet this super group of cult and underground heroes and observe their lives, their music, their culture. Tracing founder member CC Adcock's search through the swamps and flatlands of South Louisiana we are drawn into a world of beauty. This backdrop is the canvas for the introduction of the family they call the Lil' Band O' Gold. Watch as the band and their troupe see if it possible to take this soulful train of culture to the next level. Can the Lil' Band O' Gold overcome natural disasters and personal problems to carry their message beyond just another Saturday night? Or maybe Saturday night is all these virtuosos need to fulfill their desires?
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7:30 PM
to 8:51 PM
You Wont Miss Me
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
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8:30 PM
to 10:00 PM
Intangible Asset Number 82
18 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About When Australian drummer Simon Barker hears a rare recording of Korean shaman Kim Seok-Chul - a grand master in his seventies playing with immense energy and complex technique Ð he knows immediately he must find and learn from the enigmatic shaman officially recognized as South Korea's 82nd Intangible Asset.Undeterred by years of setbacks and obstacles, and with the elusive Kim Seok-Chul now in his eighties, Simon returns to Korea for a seventeenth time. The journey becomes a rite of passage, as meaningful encounters with engaging and exotic characters prepare Simon for a fortuitous meeting with the shaman.Personal transformations result, and Simon and the artists who have become immersed in his search move naturally to collaboration, a testimony to the universal language of music.
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9:00 PM
to 10:45 PM
Make-Out with Violence
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "MAKE-OUT with VIOLENCE" tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their posh suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the zombie Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
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9:00 PM
to 10:08 PM
Sissyboy
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About A juncture in the lives of performance art revolutionaries, 'Sissyboy' explores the Portland-based gender-bending drag troupe that has served up their audacity, ambivalence and social commentary throughout the Rose City for over 3 years before hundreds of devoted fans.
Go behind the scenes for a glimpse of Sissyboy's last year of existence through the eyes of 1st-time filmmaker Katie Turinski. The rehearsals, relationships, joys and heartaches experienced by this patchwork family of outcasts should be remembered not just as a performance art movement, but also an insight into the human condition.
Please enjoy the hubris & humanity offered by this troupe of societal outsiders as you discover what it means to be a Sissy.
Go behind the scenes for a glimpse of Sissyboy's last year of existence through the eyes of 1st-time filmmaker Katie Turinski. The rehearsals, relationships, joys and heartaches experienced by this patchwork family of outcasts should be remembered not just as a performance art movement, but also an insight into the human condition.
Please enjoy the hubris & humanity offered by this troupe of societal outsiders as you discover what it means to be a Sissy.
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9:30 PM
to 11:46 PM
Passing Strange
39 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About PASSING STRANGE is the Spike Lee-directed film featuring the award-winning Broadway rock musical, Passing Strange. The Broadway show won numerous Best Musical awards (Drama Desk, NY Film Critics Circle, Obie) and the Tony Award in 2008 for Best Book of a Musical.
PASSING STRANGE is the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbringing in mid-1970s LA to travel to Europe in search of his artistic and personal identity, or what he calls "the real." In the end he finds complexity and even hypocrisy are not limited to middle-class black-American life, and that while to him art may be more real than life, only love is truly more than real.
PASSING STRANGE is the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbringing in mid-1970s LA to travel to Europe in search of his artistic and personal identity, or what he calls "the real." In the end he finds complexity and even hypocrisy are not limited to middle-class black-American life, and that while to him art may be more real than life, only love is truly more than real.
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10:00 PM
to 11:30 PM
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
11 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Saint Misbehavin' reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy Рa man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. We experience the impact one person can have and connect to the hope that each one of us can make a difference while keeping our sense of humor.Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, clown, and even a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin' we meet a true servant to humanity who carries his message through humor, compassion and a song he sings, called "Basic Human Needs".Saint Misbehavin' weaves together intimate verité footage, reflections from an array of cultural and counter-cultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.
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11:30 PM
to 1:04 AM
The Horseman
33 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About The Horseman is the feature-length debut from 26 year old Australian director Steve Kastrissios. This raw, action-filled revenge drama, which received awards for both Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, signals the emergence of a serious new talent. The Horseman tells the story of Christian Forteski (played by veteran Australian actor Peter Marshall) whose drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur porn video. Christian deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through the network of pornographers involved in the video. The Horseman is a lean, tight film that boils down the revenge formula to its most essential, time-tested elements: an engaging story, interesting characters, and a powerful dose of skull-pounding violence
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11:59 PM
to 1:29 AM
The Haunting in Connecticut
33 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Though the film quickly cannonballs into severe supernatural infestations that tear a home asunder, this haunting is a mighty step forward from Amityville. Virginia Madsen (Sideways) stars in the true story of a mother who relocates her family near a rural clinic to treat her ailing teenager, unaware that the house they've purchased is a former mortuary packed with countless tortured souls. In the grandest bygone '70s horror style, a troubled exorcist (Elias Koteas) is called in to assist, but his intervention will inevitably drag out something worse than anyone could expect. This is the feature debut from lauded horror shorts director/producer Cornwell, who dazzled Fantastic Fest audiences in 2005 with "Ward 13" and again in 2006 with "The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis.
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11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Alexandria
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the distant future, a bottle is found deep inside the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Its contents unlock the secret of what happened to three men in a bookstore at the end of civilization, and their attempt to live on.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Cochran
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Jim Cochran floats through his days dreaming about being somewhere else and reflecting on his past. He hates his job and despises the delivery truck he must drive. In his free time he finds solace in shooting clay pigeons at the local shooting range. In contrast to his delivery truck his shotgun is his favorite thing in the world and he considers it his 'nightly companion'. He also has a slight love affair with performing magic tricks, and practices them alone in his backyard. Jim's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
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11:00 AM
to 11:15 AM
Countertransference
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Countertransference" is a comedy which looks at the frustration and discontent that can arise during therapy--especially with an unbalanced therapist at the helm. Carla Carthrop is a shy, socially awkward woman with massive self-esteem issues. She works in an antique store and her professional claim to fame is being selected to manage the basement. The core of the film revolves around Carla's attempt to walk away from her dysfunctional therapist. It's an irreverent, psychologically loaded exploration of the therapeutic process.
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11:00 AM
to 11:02 AM
Hi Mom
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Hi Mom started out as a vague exploration of the filmmaker's view on her family, friends, and feelings, and ended up becoming a story about her mother. The video was shot on various consumer cameras, and includes stills either shot by the artist or stolen from the internet. She roped her family and friends into cooperating with her shoots without telling them what the final product would be. All camera work, sound, and editing was conducted by the artist. She is unaware of if her Mom has seen the piece.
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11:00 AM
to 11:16 AM
HUG
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
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11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Isis Avenue
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Isis Avenue intimately documents a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's excavation of the home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA. Shot in a single-camera verite style, the unobtrusive and unanticipated nature of the film's process casts loss, absence and apathy as characters in the aftermath of an unknown woman's death. The pasts of the professionals who specialize in homicides, suicides, decomposition and hoarding cases are as hauntingly present as that of the departed. In an era of reality subjects, Isis Avenue stands in subtle opposition, in process and form, to the inevitable reality series soon to champion the subject of crime-scene cleanup. The entire filmmaking process was performed in 17 hrs 47 min; a conceptual sliver of time in the white light of Angelino anonymity.
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11:00 AM
to 12:21 PM
Reel Shorts 1
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Hug', directed by Khary Jones. Drew is a virtuoso musical talent, with a music contract ready to sign. Asa, his friend and manager, must physically get Drew to the contract signing. When Asa realizes that Drew is off his meds, the morning commute turns troubling.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
'Hi Mom', Amylee Belotti . An embellished look into the artist's view of her family and friends.
'Cochran', directed by James P. Gannon. Jim's Cochran's life is stagnant; he makes no attempt to change and instead accepts his fate, living inside of his head with his memories of the past. One fateful day while walking alone in the woods he finds something on the ground, his decision to pick it up will change his life forever.
'Alexandria', directed by Eric Elofson. Three men are trapped in a bookstore at the end of the world, and they must decide who or what can be saved before a massive flood drowns them all.
'Isis Avenue', directed by Paul Marchand. An intimate short film documenting a 'crime-scene cleanup' crew's early morning excavation of a home left abandoned by its deceased owner in Ingelwood, CA.
'Winter Lilacs', directed by Stephen Gurewitz. Chet Harvey tries to get a date to impress his aging mother Bernadette.
'That's My Majesty', directed by Emily Carmichael. Princess Moon has arrived in NYC on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is busy architect. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
'Sunday Mornings', directed by Jannicke Laker. A story about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town.
'Countertransference', directed by Madeleine Olnek. An awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
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11:00 AM
to 11:09 AM
Sunday Mornings
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About SUNDAY MORNINGS is a video about a woman who returns to her flat after an extended drinking session in town. The scene depicts the woman's slow progress from the front door to the bedroom. The video is about an independent person finding herself in a comical, yet simultaneously humiliating situation.
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11:00 AM
to 11:04 AM
That's My Majesty
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Princess Moon has arrived in New York City on a mission to crown the new queen of her people. But the chosen queen is a busy architect with little interest in governing a magical realm. As the Princess persists in her mission, the architect finds her workday interrupted at all the wrong moments, until a fateful decision gives both women what they didn't know they wanted.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 AM
to 11:06 AM
Winter Lilacs
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Chet Harvey lives with his aging mother Bernadette. When faced with moving her to an assisted living home, Chet attempts to make his Ma' proud by getting a date with "a beautiful girl.
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11:30 AM
to 12:55 PM
Burma VJ
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Armed with small handy cams, undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Their material is smuggled out of Burma and broadcast back via satellite. 'Joshua', age 27, becomes tactical leader of a group of reporters, as Buddhist monks in September 2007 lead a massive uprising. Foreign TV crews are banned from the country, so it's left to Joshua and his crew to keep the revolution alive on TV screens all over. As government intelligence understands the power of the camera, the VJs become their prime target.
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11:30 AM
to 12:40 PM
Crude Independence
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Crude Independence is a documentary film about the heartland in the process of transplanting itself, and its new heart is pumping oil. In 2006, the United States Geological Survey estimated there to be more than 200 billion barrels of crude oil resting in beneath western North Dakota, and now oil companies from far and wide are descending on small rural towns across the state with men and machinery in tow. First-time director Noah Hutton takes us to the town of Stanley (population 1300) and captures the change wrought by the unprecedented boom. Through revealing interviews and breathtaking imagery of the northern plains, Crude Independence is a rumination on the future of small town AmericaÑa tale of change at the hands of the global energy market and America's unyielding thirst for oil.
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11:30 AM
to 12:41 PM
Monsters From The Id
18 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About The 1950's was an idealistic time in American History. It was also the Atomic Age where new technology promised to both save humanity as well as destroy it. All of these factors gave birth to the most prolific genres in film history, 1950's Sci-Fi Cinema. More then just little green men, 50's Sci-fi Cinema provided inspiration for the generation who achieved one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind; Spaceflight. Monsters From The Id weaves the intersecting themes of over 30 films in order to tell the untold story of the Modern Scientist and his role in inspiring a nation. The film continues to explore the psychological and cultural impact of 50's Sci-Fi cinema in America and asks, 'where is science inspiration found today?'
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11:30 AM
to 1:00 PM
We Live in Public
39 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of 'the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of', visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner ('DIG!'), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. Josh Harris, often called the 'Warhol of the Web' through the infamous dot.com boom of the 1990's, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network and created his vision of the future, an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the millennium.
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11:45 AM
to 1:30 PM
Awaydays
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Paul Carty is 19, good-looking, funny, clever Ð and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on clubs, records, football and gigs. It's at a Bunnymen gig that he meets Elvis. Elvis changes everything.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
Tags Narrative Feature
1:30 PM
to 3:10 PM
Animated Shorts
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Milbe '(Mite), directed by Karl Tebbe. A short animation about a grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world. 6:00
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
'Birth', directed by Signe Baumane. A young woman is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
'Rosa Rosa', directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrire. While war is thundering at the gates of the city, Rosa and her lover live serenely together, trying to preserve a fragile normality.
'Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes', directed by Simon Hawkins. What may possibly have happened to Luca Brasi after he was assassinated. 3:00
'Sweet Dreams', directed by Kirsten Lepore. A stalwart cupcake escapes from his native land to discover what lies beyond the sugar skyscrapers and candy-condos. His violent shipwreck on a foreign shore forces him to adapt to a new lifestyle. 10:00
'Photograph of Jesus', directed by Laurie Hill. Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. 4:00
'Solitude Past', directed by My Sandstrom, Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
'Haunted House', SXSWClick Winner
'Tourist', directed by Matthew K. A tourist fights the crowds as he attempts to snap the perfect picture of New York. In a city full of landmarks, there will always be someone to ruin your shot. 4:00
'Here's the Stapler if You Need It', directed by Lance Myers. It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his manager has given him one very important directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back. 2:00
'Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood', directed by Lara Gallagher. The quiet anxieties of wood. 5:00
'You're Outa Here', directed by George Griffin. A feisty descendant of Betty Boop has finally had enough: she kicks out her clueless boyfriend while delivering a taunting, full-throated indictment, based on the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. 5:00
'Trepan Hole', directed by Andy Cahill. A dance between figures, clay, thought and sexuality.
'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', directed by Kate Raney. An animated version of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." Narrated by DJ Spooky.
'Shaman', directed by Luc Perez. Waiting for the bus on a rainy day in Copenhagen, the old shaman Utaaq sees a rare bird from his past. This makes him reminisce his youth, and a beautiful tale about the forces of nature begins.
Tags Shorts Program
1:30 PM
to 1:41 PM
Birth
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advise she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:40 PM
Haunted House
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The Haunted House is a bastardization of the classic comedy story, told from the perspective of scum-bag puppets and their terrible deaths.
Tags Narrative Short
1:30 PM
to 1:34 PM
Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Detailed, handcrafted dioramas set the stage for the quiet anxieties and revelations of three faceless wooden characters. Still photographs, slight animation, and an empathetic narrator cast emotions on an otherwise motionless world of meals spent alone, over-priced kitchen gadgets, and insincere apologies.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:36 PM
Milbe
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About MILBE (MITE) is a short animation film about my grandmother, Oma Grete, and gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:31 PM
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An animated interpretation of John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons." A meditation on shapes, lines and language.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:36 PM
Photograph Of Jesus
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:38 PM
Rosa Rosa
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite lineups, traffic jams and shortages they manage to live a peaceful life with their little girl. Rosa Rosa is the interweaving of individual and collective fates via a love story told by the couple themselves. It consists partly of reworked photos, the images superimposed on each other to create a stylized realism in which public and private spaces overlap. With its evocative soundtrack and plain, simple narration, this film by director Félix Dufour-Laperrire offers a touching look at happiness in hard times.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
Shaman
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Utaaq, an old Inuit, is at a bus stop in Copenhagen when he spots a bird from his native Greenland above his head Ð a rare visitor to these climes. It reminds him of his youth: As a young hunter, Utaaq discovered that a qivitoq was using a tupilak to kill local hunters. Tupilaks are magical creatures that obey their masters. Utaaq went off into the mountains where he became a shaman, and on his return, he used his powers to destroy the qivitoq. Back to Utaaq at the bus stop, we see a weary old man nostalgically watching the bird É
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
Skip and Lester: Here's the Stapler if You Need It
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About It's Lester's first day on the job at Copy-O's copy shop and his boss has given him only one directive: don't let the customers use the big paper cutter in the back.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:33 PM
Snake
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Deceptively playful, Snake is a film about stubbornness in the face of change. The film chronicles a failure to deal with time (and teeth) passing while using appealing characters and sounds to glorify the obdurate attempt to replace what is lost.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
1:30 PM
to 1:39 PM
Sweet Dreams
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About This stop-motion animation, made almost entirely with real food, tells the tale of a stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:34 PM
The Godfather Musical: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "The Godfather Musical Part III: Luca Brasi Sleeps with the Fishes" is the third and final installment of a Godfather-inspired musical. Part III imagines what happened to Luca Brasi after his assassination.
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Animation by Richard Ramazinski
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:34 PM
Tourist
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A tourist braves the busy city streets as he tries to snap the perfect photo of New York, only to find that the Big Apple seems to be a bit camera shy. In a city full of landmarks, there is always someone there to ruin his shot. Action! Intrigue! Sightseeing! Animated on location in New York City.
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 1:36 PM
Trepan Hole
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Andy Cahill abstractively drew the lines well on surrealistic discourse about a fission and unification, so this animation could be fully said to be 'synthetic'. Stripes wrap not only his clays, but also my whole impression, and the hole remains as a sort of obsession in the brain.
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
- Shon Kim, Film Programmer
Tags Animated Short
1:30 PM
to 3:00 PM
You're Outa here
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A feisty descendant of Betty Boop tells her no-good boyfriend to hit the road, her litany of complaints set to the barrelhouse rhythm of Fats Waller. "You're Outa Here" starts with stride-master Dick Hyman playing the high-voltage intro to "The Minor Drag." Our animated leading lady strides forth to make her case for the immediate ejection of her boyfriend from their apartment. Her cat clock, dog and pet piranha also demand his exit. She attempts to oust him from his Barcalounger, badgers him to start packing, and recounts his various shortcomings. He's lazy, he sleeps around, he called her doorman "Pancho" and her Uncle Bob "a queer." The film includes two rotoscope dance sequences. This Neo-Soundie was sung by Lorraine Feather, who also wrote the lyrics, and animated by George Griffin.
Tags Animated Short
2:00 PM
to 3:31 PM
45365
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About '45365' (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) explores the congruities of daily life in an American town Ð Sidney, Ohio. Through a patient and inquisitive look at the lives and landscapes that make up this community of 20,000 people, it captures the complexities and ambiguities of their shared experience. Conclusions are left to the audience as the component characters speak and act for themselves, as themselves. These storylines eventually coalesce into a mosaic of faces, places, and events. It is an inquiring look at everyday life in middle America.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:35 PM
Died Young, Stayed Pretty
33 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Died Young Stayed Pretty is the first feature documentary to take a candid look at the renaissance of North America's underground indie-rock poster movement spurred on by the launch of Gigposters.com. Picking up where punk left off, DYSP reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial & intensely visceral design work. Yaghoobian travels across US & Canada to offer a look into to the world of some of the giants of this modern subculture who have worked on posters for groups like Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and the list goes on. Under the guise of advertising for rocks shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen carry on public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd inside jokes.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:17 PM
Still Bill
18 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Bill Withers is an unexpected superstar. "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day," and "Just the Two of Us" are only part of a complex and fascinating character: an icon who left the industry behind but never gave up his soul. You know his songs. Now meet the man.Featuring a tribute concert, a soundtrack with previously unreleased tracks, and rare live performances.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:15 PM
to 3:35 PM
Music Videos
16 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Yeasayer 'Wait for the Summer'Director: Mixtape Club
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Tags Shorts Program
2:30 PM
to 4:16 PM
Afterschool
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Robert is 16-years-old. His coming of age is interrupted when he witnesses the death by overdose of a pair of Twins in his high school hallway. His troubles and insecurities seem insignificant in comparison to this tragic event; and yet as the school continues to hold memorials and instills an extreme zero-tolerance anti- drug policy, Robert can't help but feel more and more distant from the tragedy.
Tags Narrative Feature
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Charlie Hewson, 'Where Are You Going, Elena?'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Elena is fed up with bringing people their food, but when she runs away from her waitressing job, the utensils chase her down. Will she escape forever, or will a tenacious pepper shaker win her back?
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Chris Gordon & Dan Lubell, 'America, Let's Go'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Travel America, Agnieszka style. From New York to LA, Poland's brightest rising star hip-hops her way through a picture perfect postcard world of patriotic kitsch. America's newest pop sensation has arrived! Inspired by music and characters from Karen Odyniec's short film DEADLINE.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Don McCloskey, 'Mister Novocaine'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About In a fever dream where hands are people, one hand fights the pleasure of the bottle by telling his story through song.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Fleet Foxes, 'White Winter Hymnal'
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Alone in a dark wood, 5 lonesome old men sit and ponder the meaning of their solitude. But they are not alone on this cold winter night. For a man older than time itself stands ready and willing to change everything with one swift motion. And he does, setting forth a chain reaction causing the world to spin wildly out of control, the forest grows and shrinks, snow lifts from the ground to the sky, dead mushrooms rise and shrink back to the earth, and the 5 lonely men grow slowly back to their young selves. This animated music video captures the cyclical nature of the Fleet Foxes tune in a magical, fantastically beautiful way.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Gnarls Barkley, 'Going On'
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A young man discovers how to travel to another dimension, but he has no idea what he will find when he gets there, or how he will get back. His friends all want to explore, but one by one, the fear of the unknown overwhelms them, and they are too scared to continue with him. Eventually finding another soul to brave the porthole with him, they jump throughÉ
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Golden Hornet Project Film Event - Metropolis with Original, Live Score
26 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Wyatt Brand helps bring a spectacular film and music convergence event to SXSW Film with Golden Hornet Project's (GHP) screening and live, original score for Fritz Lang's 1927 classic silent masterpiece 'Metropolis,' composed by GHP co-artistic directors Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski. The screening with performance will follow a brief interview of Reynolds and Stopschinski as moderated by Oliver Frankin. Executive Curator for Public Programs at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Tags Narrative Feature
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Javelin, 'Soda Popinski'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The Sea Floor Sea Urchin Dance Troupe dance to Javelin's "SODA POPINSKI."
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Kaki King, 'Pull Me Out Alive'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About PULL ME OUT ALIVE is the music video for the lead single from Golden Globe-nominated musician Kaki King's album, Dreaming of Revenge. Co-directed by Edward Boyce & Doug Karr, with photography by Guy Godfree and animation design by Patrick Jasin, PULL ME OUT ALIVE was made without film camerasÑit consists of 5000 still photographs shot on Nikon D30s. There are no special effects; all of the light trails were created by hand, with up to eight individual light animators flashing LEDs and flashlights on and off over an eight second shot exposure.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Krista Muir, 'Leave Alight'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About With the flick of many switches, Krista Muir leads us out of the darkness with her powerful voice and resonant baritone ukulele. Light is the central character in this poignant performance piece.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Megachurch, 'Hyper Gospel'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The members of Mega*Church invite you to join them for a hyper-colored take on religious pomp and circumstance--joy, life, love, fabric, neon, baptism, and cookies!
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Oren Lavie, 'Her Morning Elegance'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The video animates the fantastic dream of a sleeping woman without ever leaving her bedroom, using her mattress as the canvas of the dream and her bed frame as the dolly of her journey.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Prefuse 73, 'Aborted Hugs'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About An Ingenue is tormented by a Gentleman Caller, and her own sexuality in this expressionistic music video about paranoia, jealousy, filth, and rage.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Roots Manuva, 'C. R. U. F. F.'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A boy's journey through a nightmare toy war, set to a track by Roots Manuva.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Talkdemonic, 'Duality of Deathening'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A robot lives alone in a tiny apartment. He's made a choice to be human, hoping that determination alone might allow him to make it so. He pretends to be a person, eating, laughing, talking with homemade dummies, all the while having no real idea why he's doing any of it. He figures there are just some things you do when you're human. He is given a vision. In the dream state he sees humanity for what it truly is, and realizes at once the error he's made. It isn't so bad, not being human.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 2:33 PM
Temposhark, 'Blame'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The music track is about loneliness, frustration, anger and hope. The story in the animation evolves arounda boy who is trapped in the lonely inner city and he keeps on trying to stay strong with hope for a bettertomorrow.The song title is Blame from the debut album The Invisible Line, written by Robert Diament and Youth (Martin Glover) Distribution in USA through Defend Music
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Terp 2 It, 'F@ck This City'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Nerdcore rapper Terp 2 It hates the city of Orlando, Florida so much, he wrote the song 'Fuck This City' and then made a music video so everyone could feel and understand his hatred. Produced by internet comedy video group Studio 8, 'Fuck This City' turns the usual flashy hip hop music video conventions on their heads and smooshes you deep inside Terp's angry head. Yet lurking beneath the hearty mixture of no-holds-barred trash talk and abrasive imagery hides the goofy soul and wit of Terp 2 It. By the end of the video, you might find yourself wondering whether you should be more afraid for Orlando or for Terp, should the two ever cross each other's paths. 'Fuck This City' can be found on Terp 2 It's debut album The Freshest Dude from Studio 8 Records.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
The Dirty Hearts, 'Record Store'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Inside a Small Record Store, a teenager steals the new "Dirty Hearts" album, which leads to an over the top chase sequence, after a run in, with a local officer.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
The Hidden Cameras, 'In The Na'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Pairing the gestures of contemporary dance with an ecstatically high-energy pop song, In The Na depicts a scientific experiment in hypnotism and human behavior gone awry.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
The New Pornographers, 'Myriad Harbour'
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Hairband as interpreted by Fluorescent Hill.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
The Octopus Project, 'An Evening With Rthrtha'
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The music video "An Evening with Rthrtha" is a high-velocity psychedelic stop-motion animation made from thousands of photos on hundreds of layers using an eclectic array of analog animation techniques. The final result is a horrible/splendid array of bats, butterflies, that depicts "An Evening with Rthrtha".
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
The Saturday Knights, 'Count it Off'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About In a distinct Sesame street style, The Saturday Knights reinvent the kids show as a hip-hop singalong with puppets, numbers, kids and more.Shot on vintage tube cameras and with hand-drawn animation, this video is a blast to the past.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
The Sword, 'Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Under the light of a century old broken moon, a caravan of humanity's last survivors march through the civilized bones of wasteland earth to find one of "The Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians."
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Thunderheist, 'Jerk It'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Jerk it is our first music video, made for the band Thunderheist. It features skin giggling in slow motion, strobing animal prints, and a girl with a large rooster. After winning the band's contest, it premiered on pitchfork.tv. It has since received more attention than we ever imagined and for that we are humbled and truly grateful. We would like to thank Anna, Mike, Tristan, Caleb, Diana, Carey, Jennifer, Yoshiko, Eric, and Bronwyn for volunteering their time. Without them this video would not have been possible. We are also grateful to Grahm and Isis of Thunderheist and their manager Tash, and to all the bloggers and festival programmers who posted the video and took an interest in our work. Thanks!
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Tycho, 'Meridian'
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter. Fundamentally, material composes all things and all phenomena are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance and can neither be created or destroyed. Hence, we are all made of only what came before us yet discretely conceived through form; we are all made of earth and sky and stars.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Tags Music Video
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Yeasayer, 'Wait for the Summer'
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Inspired by Yeasayer's polyphonic harmony and tribal sound, this video follows migrating beetles, cosmic apple orbits, and primal spirits through the cycles of the planets and seasons.
Tags Music Video
4:30 PM
to 5:49 PM
Blood Trail
14 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About At times war photographer Robert King resembles a heroic misfit straight out of the pages of Scoop, thrown into the heart of battle, struggling to adapt to the brutal environment he finds himself in. Occasionally comic, often touching, more often dark, Blood Trail, the tale of Robert King, is a unique and personal journey, a film which follows him over 15 years and through three wars.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
His journey starts in Sarajevo in 1993, a 23-year-old fresh out of Art College and prepared to dodge bullets on the front line dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize. His dream proves elusive. Fired by his photo agency and struggling to make ends meet, any swashbuckling allusions Robert holds for the career he has chosen quickly evaporate: as he realises this is one of the toughest professions in the world.
Despite himself, Robert stays in the game, over time establishing himself as a respected professional, his work making the front covers of global media titles. Over 15 years Blood Trail records Robert's life from boy to man, to husband and father. It is a biography, which leads from reckless naivety to maturity hardened by war and softened by family. It is a story, which forces Robert to inevitably question why he chose a profession, which involves an endless trail of death and destruction.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:30 PM
to 5:50 PM
Motherland
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Six diverse and remarkable women, each grieving the loss of a child, travel to rural South Africa to work as volunteers in an effort to find some positive meaning in the wake of their tragedies. The group, strangers to each other before the trip began but bound by the painful experience they share, contribute to and learn from a culture that deals with mourning in a way very different from what they're accustomed to in America. For 17 days on the other side of the world, these women cry and laugh, grieve and celebrate, and talk more openly than ever before about the kids they adored. And for the first time since their children's deaths, together in the Motherland, each woman finds hope and healing in the company of others who truly understand her experience.
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4:30 PM
to 5:39 PM
The Time of Their Lives
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About With a combined age of almost 300, Hetty, Rose and Alison love to share their impassioned concerns on everything from terrorism and global warming to sex, death and the meaning of life. But despite their unstoppable enthusiasm and disarming humour, all three women are not simply ready for death Ð they actively want to die.At the end of lives lived with passion and purpose, Hetty, Rose and Alison bring to the screen a rare perspective on old age. Surprising, poignant and at times very funny, The Time of Their Lives reveals the everyday mystery of how very old people experience life and the effects of age on their sense of identity and worth. Like first-hand witnesses who have gone ahead and report back from the edge of their own mortality, they tell us things of which no-one ever speaks.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 6:30 PM
Austin School of Film presents: Youth MAFIA
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Considered one of the most popular and anticipated youth events hosted by a major film festival in the United States, the 4th Annual Austin School of Film Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day Film Festival & Screening during SXSW Film will be held Saturday, March 14th - Sunday, March 15th at Connally High School from 10am-10am (24 hours). Filmmakers, ages 14-19, get into groups of four and have only 24 hours to write a script, shoot, and edit a five-minute short according to set guidelines. Austin School of Film teachers and mentors, editing equipment, meals, and drinks will be provided. Each team must bring their own DV camera. FREE. Only a limited number of students will be allowed, and it's on a first come first serve basis. All you have to do is send in your contact information (every student must send in their own information) to Monica at monica@austinfilmschool.org. Make sure you include your name, e-mail, and cell/home phone number(s). As the film festival approaches, you will receive further information about rules and recommended pre-registration dates.
Tags Shorts Program
6:00 PM
to 7:22 PM
Winnebago Man
40 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of -- after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man."
Tags Documentary Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:30 PM
Drunken Angel: The Legend of Blaze Foley
20 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Born in a tree house, killed in a friend's living room, 86'ed from his own funeral, Blaze Foley is now a bona fide country music legend. His heartfelt songs are covered by Merle Haggard, John Prine, Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett. Drunken Angel reveals the secret of failing in the music business while succeeding as a legend.
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7:00 PM
to 8:53 PM
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
54 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About In 2008, British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN took rock and roll touring to new heights and embarked on the Somewhere Back in Time world tour. Flying in their customized Boeing 757 with 12 tons of equipment and 70 crew, Maiden traveled over 40,000 miles in just 45 days playing sold-out concerts from India to Los Angeles to the tip of South America. And not only did lead singer Bruce Dickinson perform all 23 shows, he also piloted the plane. IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666 brings the road trip movie to the air, taking you behind the scenes and inside the cockpit of the most ambitious tour in rock history. The film shows one of the world's most influential bands captivating new fans in cultures across the globe without support from radio or mainstream media.
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7:00 PM
to 8:02 PM
The Least of These
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling conditions at the facility. This compelling film explores the role - and limits - of community activism, and considers how American rights and values apply to the least powerful among us.
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7:15 PM
to 8:27 PM
The Eyes of Me
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An extraordinary look at 4 blind teens. The parallel stories of 2 freshmen and 2 seniors unfold over the course of one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin. EYES offers a fresh perspective on growing up and fitting in.
Distilled from over 250 hours of footage, this experiential doc captures a textured portrait of its characters. Director Keith Maitland worked closely with the film's subjects to produce sequences of stylized rotoscopic animation to complement the film's observational aesthetic.
Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their thoughts, their perceptions, their inner-visions of the outer world. You cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.
How do you see yourself when you can't see at all?
Distilled from over 250 hours of footage, this experiential doc captures a textured portrait of its characters. Director Keith Maitland worked closely with the film's subjects to produce sequences of stylized rotoscopic animation to complement the film's observational aesthetic.
Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their thoughts, their perceptions, their inner-visions of the outer world. You cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.
How do you see yourself when you can't see at all?
Tags Documentary Feature
7:30 PM
to 7:37 PM
Alexander Family Farm
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About Kim Alexander lives as close to the city as you can get and still be country. The furthest an egg travels from his farm is 30 miles, a distance unheard of in our global food economy. Though a staple in American diets, the origins of our eggs can be a mystery.
Tags Documentary Short
7:30 PM
to 7:36 PM
Casimiro
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About Casimiro is the story of an illegal immigrant living in central Texas. As we follow him throughout his daily routine we realize the difficulties, both physical and emotional he is forced to confront. Casimiro begins his day trying to write an encouraging and positive letter to his family back in his homeland. As the day progresses, we can experience that the American dream Casimiro was after has resulted in a much more difficult journey, one which he has to overcome alone. His solitude and inability to adapt to a strange world ultimately create a distance between Casimiro and his family, one that goes beyond the physical boundaries of countries and cultures.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
Coffee
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About COFFEE is about Sara, a woman whose relationship has fallen apart. She is waking up on this particular morning to a disheveled house, half packed in boxes. Going about her morning in a daze, Sara allows innocuous little things to affect her. When it's time for a sincere reaction to her surroundings, she simply feels numb. Coffee might help.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Entre Lineas (Between the Lines)
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About "Entre Lineas" is a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM
Jack & Holly
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About Jack and Holly are a young couple who struggle as hard economic times put pressure on their relationship.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:42 PM
Love, Sadie
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life through the intimate exchange of handwritten notes.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 9:23 PM
Strongman
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Stanless Steel can leg-press 10,000 pound dump trucks, drive nails through boards with just his bare hands, and can even bend a U.S. penny in his fingersÑa feat no one else in the world can accomplish. These are acts, he feels, not just of physical strength but of mental and emotional strengthÑdemonstrations of the kind of change possible through will-power and perseverance. Yet as Stan reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships begin to test these strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around himÑincluding his own.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
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7:30 PM
to 9:06 PM
Texas Shorts
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Jack & Holly', directed by Robbie Bourland. A young husband has lost his job and is reluctant to lean on his wife for emotion and finical support.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
Tags Shorts Program
7:30 PM
to 7:44 PM
Tough Love
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Tough Love' is ostensibly about boxing. Really, though, it's about boys and men looking for love and affection through time-honored rituals. Instead of teaching violence and aggression, the sport shows young men nurturing and tenderness, as each generation passes along its knowledge and appreciation of the sport to the next.
Tags Documentary Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
Uprush
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About On the brink of adulthood, swimming can seem like the most dangerous thing in the world.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:35 PM
Ventilo
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About A drama about a young woman's journey through a fantasy world of feather fans and beauty. She soon discovers that life is not an open door. There are many ways to fail and only one way through. Acceptance, rejection, fear, and courage all have their place in Ventilo.
Tags Narrative Short
9:00 PM
to 10:20 PM
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
33 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About At fourteen years old, best friends Lips and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil, hailed as the 'demi-gods of Canadian metal,' influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. Though Anvil never made it, they never stopped playing or believing. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now well into their fifties, set off to record their thirteenth album, 'This is Thirteen,' in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dream.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:20 PM
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Brock Enright, and his girlfriend Kirsten Deirup drive from Brooklyn, NY to her family's cabin in Mendocino, CA to prepare for his first solo show at a prominent New York gallery. As Enright struggles to produce what could be his most significant work, his relationship with Kirsten, her family, and the gallery is strained by his violent, explicit, and challenging creation.
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9:30 PM
to 11:00 PM
The Slammin' Salmon
25 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Former heavyweight boxing champ, Cleon Salmon (MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN), is the celebrity owner of an upscale Miami restaurant. In debt to the Yakuza, the Champ 'inspires' his waitstaff (BROKEN LIZARD) with a one-night-only contest: Top selling waiter gets $10,000; lowest selling waiter gets his face punched in by the Champ himself. It's one funny, frantic night as Broken Lizard (SUPER TROOPERS, BEERFEST) does their best Glengarry Glen Ross in 'THE SLAMMIN' SALMON.'
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9:30 PM
to 10:56 PM
The Yes Men Fix the World
23 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr, 2009) is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses.
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10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Creative Nonfiction
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Ella is a college student, but she's more focused on her pseudo-romance with her dorm mate Chris than on the screenplay she's supposed to be finishing for her Creative Writing class. Reality and fiction are indistinguishable as she tries and fails to differentiate her script from her increasingly awkward social life.
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10:00 PM
to 11:42 PM
Number One With A Bullet
9 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About From the ghettos of Philadelphia to the boardrooms of Los Angeles, NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET pulls back the curtain on gun violence in Hip Hop. This documentary follows five rappers with experience on both ends of the barrel (Young Buck, B Real, Obie Trice, The Last Mr. Bigg, and 40 Glocc) as they take viewers back to the scenes of the crimes and into their darkest hours. They are joined by a diverse cast of Hip Hop luminaries (Mos Def, KRS One, Ice Cube and more), community activists, police officers, doctors and citizens to expose the physical, mental and emotional scars of gun violence in the streets and in the music.
From the makers of BEEF, QD3 Entertainment bring you NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET, a groundbreaking look into the epidemiology of gun violence within Urban America.
From the makers of BEEF, QD3 Entertainment bring you NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET, a groundbreaking look into the epidemiology of gun violence within Urban America.
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11:30 PM
to 12:54 AM
Lesbian Vampire Killers
44 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Not content to bank on the power of a salacious title, director Phil Claydon's LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS packs as much of a punch as the name implies. Matthew Horne and James Corden, the comedy duo behind the award-winning BBC comedy series GAVIN AND STACEY, are two hapless losers whose idyllic country holiday is shattered by the arrival of an army of thirsty lesbian vampires. James Corden owns the film with a non-stop barrage of rapid-fire tom-foolery and Paul McGann (the 'I' of WITHNAIL AND I) chews every inch of scenery as the vicar with a hearse heavy with undead-slaying devices. With heaping helpings of gratuitous skin, violence and onscreen beer consumption, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS seems tailor made for a witching hour debut at the Alamo Drafthouse.
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11:59 PM
to 1:54 AM
Black
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry, our protagonist 'Black' needs to go on the lam. News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches the plan to go on a 'working vacation' that involves a little sightseeing and a lot of mayhem. Genre fans know underground French MC Jean Gab'1 as a villain in District B-13, but with BLACK, he take center stage and delivers a nouveau-blacksploitation adventure awash in, black magic, African mysticism, mutant arms dealers, gargantuan machete-wielding mercenary armies and a truckload of knuckle-sandwiches.
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11:00 AM
to 12:12 PM
Alexander the Last
25 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A sensual and intimate portrait of a young marriage from director Joe Swanberg and producer Noah Baumbach. Focusing on an artistic young couple, Swanberg illuminates the challenges of monogamy amidst myriad sexual and creative temptations. Starring Jess Weixler, Justin Rice, Barlow Jacobs, Josh Hamilton and Jane Adams.
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11:30 AM
to 1:25 PM
Daytime Drinking
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About After Hyuk-Jin gets dumped, he hangs around in a bar with his friends. Totally drunk, they decide to travel to console his broken heart.
Next day, Hyuk-Jin arrives at the destination but he finds out he is alone because his friends can't come due to a terrible hangover.
He encounters with strange couple and gets invited for a drink. Next morning, he opens his eyes on the middle of snowy way without his cell phone and wallet as well as his pants. A kind but somewhat weird driver offers him a drive and a drink again.
Now Hyuk-jin has to find a way to get out of the world's worst hangover and to end his drunken odyssey.
Next day, Hyuk-Jin arrives at the destination but he finds out he is alone because his friends can't come due to a terrible hangover.
He encounters with strange couple and gets invited for a drink. Next morning, he opens his eyes on the middle of snowy way without his cell phone and wallet as well as his pants. A kind but somewhat weird driver offers him a drive and a drink again.
Now Hyuk-jin has to find a way to get out of the world's worst hangover and to end his drunken odyssey.
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12:00 PM
to 1:33 PM
Humpday
28 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About A farcical comedy about straight male bonding gone a little too far.
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12:00 PM
to 1:33 PM
Splinterheads
22 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About For Justin Frost, a typical day is rolling out of bed at one, practicing improvised karate, and mowing grass for his best friend's landscaping business. But when a traveling carnival lands in his small town, Justin falls for a sexy con-artist and wakes up to the life he has yet to begin living
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12:30 PM
to 1:45 PM
Say My Name
14 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In a hip hop and R'n'B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Name speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs. This worldwide documentary takes viewers on vibrant tour of urban culture from hip hop's birthplace in the Bronx, to grime on London's Eastside and all points in between. Featuring interviews and performances from a diverse cast including Remy Ma, Jean Grea, Erykah Badu, Estelle and newcomers Choc Thai, Invincible and Miz Korona, this powerful doc delves into the personal stories of women balancing professional dreams with the realities of poor urban communities, race, sexism, and motherhood. These are women turning adversity into art.
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1:00 PM
to 2:30 PM
De Ofrivilliga (Involuntary)
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About It's almost summer in Sweden and minor indiscretions and misbehavior abound. Leffe likes to show off his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he's drinking. Meanwhile, a righteous grade-school teach doesn't know where to draw the line: she insists her fellow educators need a bit of instruction. Then there are two young teenage girls who like to pose for sexy photos and to party, but one night in a park, a complete stranger finds one of the girls passed out drunk. A humorous look at lessons to learn, lectures to give and lines not to cross.
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1:30 PM
to 2:56 PM
It Came From Kuchar
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious and touching documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. As kids in the 1950s, George and Mike Kuchar began making no-budget epics in their Bronx neighborhood starring friends and family with their 8mm camera.
In the 1960s the Kuchars became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene.
The Kuchar brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all interviewed in this film).
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of consciousness tale.
In the 1960s the Kuchars became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene.
The Kuchar brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all interviewed in this film).
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of consciousness tale.
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1:30 PM
to 3:04 PM
Over the Hills and Far Away
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about one family's struggle to find answers to their son's autism. Shot over the course of two years, this film follows the Isaacson family as they journey on horseback across Mongolia from healer to healer, and the amazing healings they found for their son, and for themselves. An inspiration to think outside the box, a travel adventure, an insight into shamanic traditions, the autistic mind, and man's relationship with animals; at its heart, Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about a family that went to the edge of the earth to find a way into their son's life.
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2:15 PM
to 4:05 PM
The Paranoids
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About An aspiring screenwriter from Buenos Aires, he lives in fear of success, STDs and -- especially -- his doorman. We meet Luciano during one of his typically awkward days: he has a narcoleptic attack on the job (he's a children's entertainer, to boot), obsessively calls an HIV helpline after a random sexual encounter and accidentally sends his best friend to the hospital after slamming a door in his face.
Things become even more uncomfortable when Luciano's childhood friend Manuel returns to Buenos Aires from Madrid, where he is the producer of a successful television show called The Paranoids. Manuel is in town to make an Argentine version of the hit, and Luciano becomes especially perturbed when he discovers that he provided the inspiration for the show's main character, who even shares his name.
When Manuel leaves on a business trip to Chile, his beautiful new girlfriend Sofia (JazmÌ n Stuart) decides to stay with Luciano, a turn of events that amounts to a nightmare for her fearful host. At first, Sofia sees Luciano superficially; to her, he is just the paranoid freak her boyfriend has described. After spending time with him, however, she begins to see Luciano for what he is -- a misunderstood, honest and genuine person. In sum, he is the complete opposite of Manuel.
Things become even more uncomfortable when Luciano's childhood friend Manuel returns to Buenos Aires from Madrid, where he is the producer of a successful television show called The Paranoids. Manuel is in town to make an Argentine version of the hit, and Luciano becomes especially perturbed when he discovers that he provided the inspiration for the show's main character, who even shares his name.
When Manuel leaves on a business trip to Chile, his beautiful new girlfriend Sofia (JazmÌ n Stuart) decides to stay with Luciano, a turn of events that amounts to a nightmare for her fearful host. At first, Sofia sees Luciano superficially; to her, he is just the paranoid freak her boyfriend has described. After spending time with him, however, she begins to see Luciano for what he is -- a misunderstood, honest and genuine person. In sum, he is the complete opposite of Manuel.
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2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
a'mare
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About ANDREA and FELICE are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water. Will their friendship survive the turbulent events that follow?
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:43 PM
Autopilot
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home Mark's family drifts in isolation, escaping the lazy afternoon, when reality circles back.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:38 PM
Before the Sea
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
Tags Documentary Short
2:30 PM
to 2:35 PM
Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Illumination comes to a young boy at his grandfather's 95th birthday.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip)
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
John Wayne Hated Horses
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On a hot summer day, a father and his young son struggle with their differing ideas about masculinity, boredom, and the proper way to play with army toys.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:37 PM
Little Pumpkin
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In the midst of his parents' divorce, a 5 year-old boy seeks out friendship with a gift his father left behind for him. The fact that the new found friend is a large pumpkin seems harmless at first, but Stephanie finds herself facing her own emotions, as her son grows more and more attached to the pumpkin in the absence of his father.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
Peter and Ben
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About As a young man, Peter visited the rolling lush green hills of a remote and hidden valley in Wales and chose to stay there permanently. Self-sufficient and alone, Peter was content. Then he met Ben. Peter found Ben, an orphaned newborn lamb, abandoned in a ditch. Now Ben has matured into a full-grown wooly sheep with ambitions to move into Peter's house with him. Peter, however, has other ideas. Peter and Ben is a touching and quirky story of how two "black-sheep" form an unusual and enduring bond.
Tags Documentary Short
2:30 PM
to 4:17 PM
Reel Shorts 2
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'John Wayne Hated Horses', directed by Andrew Betzer. A father and his young son share a house, a yard, and very different ideas about masculinity and appropriate uses of army toys.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
'Autopilot', directed by J.B. Herndon. Adolescent boys ghostride bicycles. Inertia pulls a father and son toward an eerie kinship. And time is a circle.
'Before the Sea', directed by Charlene Music. A little boy and his fisherman father confront life and death at the edge of the ocean, where their idle drag boat, the Anne Marie, blankets them in a dream.
'A'Mare', directed by Martina Amati. Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.
'Peter and Ben', directed by Pinny Grylls. A man moves away from civilization and strikes up a relationship with the sheep.
'Tess and Nana', directed by M. Stewart Thorndike. Thirteen-year-old Tess wants to get out of sick grandmother's dark house.
'Round Trip', directed by David Martin-Porras. The customs of an American airport places a mother and her son in a revealing situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where lying to each other is no longer an option.
'Sister Wife', directed by Jill Orschel. In a time when the practices of Mormon fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers a rare and unflinching glimpse into a cloistered lifestyle.
'Happy 95th Birthday Grandpa', directed by Gary Huggins. A fleeting memory in five minutes.
VisitDirector: Gray MillerNYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
Tags Shorts Program
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
Sister Wife
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About DoriAnn is a Mormon Fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing ritual, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage and reveals an unexpected explanation for why she chooses polygamy.
Tags Documentary Short
2:30 PM
to 4:03 PM
Soul Power
12 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Jeffrey Levy-Hinte takes us on an epic trip back to 1974 when the most famous R & B acts in the world, including James Brown, B.B. King, and Bill Withers, put on 12 hour long concert to help promote Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's historic "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire. (U.S. Premiere)
Tags Documentary Feature
2:30 PM
to 2:40 PM
Tess and Nana
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Tess gets out of her grandmother's house for the day.
Tags Narrative Short
2:30 PM
to 2:37 PM
Visit
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About NYC Chinatown-- A young pregnant couple struggle with parental anxieties and an unexpected visitor.
Tags Narrative Short
3:00 PM
to 4:30 PM
The Promised Land
16 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About The Promised Land is a film that takes you to the heart of Louisiana's musical phenomenon - Swamp Pop. Shot in South-west Louisiana we meet this super group of cult and underground heroes and observe their lives, their music, their culture. Tracing founder member CC Adcock's search through the swamps and flatlands of South Louisiana we are drawn into a world of beauty. This backdrop is the canvas for the introduction of the family they call the Lil' Band O' Gold. Watch as the band and their troupe see if it possible to take this soulful train of culture to the next level. Can the Lil' Band O' Gold overcome natural disasters and personal problems to carry their message beyond just another Saturday night? Or maybe Saturday night is all these virtuosos need to fulfill their desires?
Tags Documentary Feature
3:30 PM
to 5:08 PM
Wake Up
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About One day four years ago Jonas Elrod woke up with the inexplicable ability tosee and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts. The documentary WAKE UPfollows his journey across the country and overseas for the next three yearsto find out why.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:31 PM
Goodbye Solo
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, GOODBYE SOLO deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America.
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'
Tags Narrative Feature
4:30 PM
to 5:53 PM
Garbage Dreams
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys Ð Adham, a bright precocious 17 year old; Osama, a charming impish 16 year old; Nabil, a shy artistic 18 year old Ð born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo. It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is the home to 60,000 'Zaballeen'(or 'Zabbaleen'), arabic for 'garbage people.'
When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 5:03 PM
100 mg
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Peeking with a passive curiosity that lingers a little too long. Then we go in and things begin to change.
Tags Experimental Short
5:00 PM
to 6:25 PM
All Tomorrow's Parties
33 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow's Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 5:22 PM
BigBand
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About BigBand is a journey into contemporary urban world that happens among situations that are theoretically distant in time and space but come together with radical turns of the narrative. In this way a zapping effect that transports the audience from one place to the next and challenges them to create the relationship between the scenes is created, forcing a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes, like the transformation of our environment, the passage of time and urban chaos.
Tags Experimental Short
5:00 PM
to 6:30 PM
Cattle Call
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have created images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. This hallucinogenic study of what Werner Herzog has termed 'the poetry of capitalism,' will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
Tags Documentary Short
5:00 PM
to 5:24 PM
Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About World Premiere! Sarah Jane Lapp's semi-fictional, hand-drawn animation, scored by Mark Dresser and made possible by interviews with eulogists galore, follows a eulogist-in-training and his encounter with the interstitial spaces our communal memories create between mortality and immortality. A decade in the making, a portion of this film exhibited internationally, won a Black Maria Jurors' Choice Award, and, yes, screened both with SXSW 2006 and on SXSWPresents/PBS.
Tags Animated Short
5:00 PM
to 5:11 PM
Dear Texas Highways
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Dear Texas Highways is a cinematic sequence of still photographs that illustrate a darkling letter written to Texas Highways magazine.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
The narrated letter is a fractured rumination of a disintegrating consciousness.
The photographic images are an interpretation of the visual climate thatthe narrator navigates over the arc of a single day on the road.
Dear Texas Highways is at once an absurdly cryptic suicide note and an appeal for redemption and mercy.
Tags Experimental Short
5:00 PM
to 6:14 PM
Experimental Shorts
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'The Idiot Stinks', directed by Helder Sun. Animation, Angst, Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H. Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering.
'Dear Texas Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy ending.
'100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first couple weeks of starting antidepressants.
'Bigband', directed Daniel Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection on our society's day-to-day paradoxes.
'The Nature Between Us', directed by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style.
'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
Tags Shorts Program
5:00 PM
to 6:13 PM
Sons of a Gun
15 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Lance, Craig, and Ubaldo live with schizophrenia. They also live with Larry, their alcoholic caretaker/"dad". And even though they aren't related by blood, they've lived together as a family for 20 years. Through intimate access to this unique family, the documentary SONS OF A GUN follows them as they get evicted, move into a cramped motel room, joke around, and scramble to find a new home before their family self-destructs.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 5:01 PM
The Idiot Stinks
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Animation Angst. Media, Martians and Miscommunication.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
35 mm scratch on film lasting 1 minutes and 45 seconds, directed by Helder K. Sun with sound by Shinro Ohtake / EYE.
Tags Animated Short
5:00 PM
to 5:04 PM
The Nature Between Us
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An old VHS camera reveals a bonkers back-alley gang, struggling for a sense of identity. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks, sloppy joe's and young love, they stumble upon a tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and style. As the two worlds collide, the characters discover The Nature Between Us.
Tags Narrative Short
5:00 PM
to 5:06 PM
Turning Trick
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About In a scene from Truffaut«s Les Mistons from 1957, fiveboys chase each other, then stop abruptly and pretend toshoot at one another. One by one, they fall to the ground. InTurning Trick, we see five girls in a park. At first it looks likethey are playing hide and seek but it quickly develops intosomething quite different.
Tags Narrative Short
6:00 PM
to 7:26 PM
Made In China
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Slinkys, Pet Rocks, Ant FarmsÉbehind each of those great novelties is the story of a great Novelty Inventor. 'Made In China' is the story of one such inventor. Johnson, a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, is determined to bring his big idea Ð "a humorous domestic hygiene product" - to the world. Johnson's journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.
Tags Narrative Feature
6:30 PM
to 7:31 PM
It was great, but I was ready to come home.
16 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'It was great, but I was ready to come home.' follows best friends Cam and Annie as they navigate their way through the mountains and coastal towns of Costa Rica, looking for old comforts amidst new experiences. By turns tender and critical in its approach to its characters, Kris Swanberg's debut feature is an intimate and introspective look at the ebb and flow of female friendship.
Tags Narrative Feature
6:30 PM
to 7:54 PM
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
29 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.Which side of the ideas war are you on?
Tags Documentary Feature
6:45 PM
to 8:12 PM
Rats and Cats
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Darren McWarren was an Australian TV legend but fell from grace after an indiscretion with a young co-star. Now living in a backwater town his life is put under the microscope by a tabloid journalist researching a 'where are they now' piece.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:00 PM
to 8:24 PM
The Way We Get By
17 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About A captivating and intimate look at three senior citizens in America as they struggle with the losses that come with growing old and the uplifting ways they rediscover their reasons for living. By greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine, Bill Knight, Joan Gaudet, and Jerry Mundy find the strength to overcome their own personal battles and demonstrate the meaning of community at a time when most Americans have lost faith in their country.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:30 PM
to 7:45 PM
A. Effect
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Two actors struggle to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese. A. Effect is loosely scripted and highly improvised as the actors adlibbed the majority of their dialogue and contributed ideas to their characters throughout the process of production. The characters were based on who the actors were in real life so they were essentially playing themselves and adding to the realism to blur the lines of narrative filmmaking.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 8:59 PM
Along Came Kinky...Texas Jewboy for Governor
30 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Along Came Kinky...chronicles singing Jewish cowboy Kinky Friedman's 2006 independent gubernatorial campaign in Texas. See the outspoken Kinky, his campaign staff strategizing for an unprecedented four-way race, and grass roots volunteers canvassing the state to raise awareness and money for their unlikely but incredibly sharp candidate.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
Non-Love-Song
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 8:53 PM
Reel Shorts 3
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About 'Thompson', directed by Jason Tippet. Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
'The Better Half', directed by Rebecca Rodriguez. A disconnected man keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his room in NYC. Encounters with three women gradually reveal the origin and importance of the legs and ultimately raise the question, can you ever get all of someone?
'Unlimited', directed by Andrew Luis. A travelogue that follows Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, as he cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
'Thick as Thieves', directed by Chris Demarais. When a successful businessman encounters an eccentric mugger in an alley, he decides that maybe banking isn't really his forte.
'Non-Love Song', directed by Erik Gernand. On the last day of summer before heading off to college, two 18-year old best friends attempt to connect as adults and for the first time in their lives share a real moment.
'Wing It', directed by Julio Quintana. When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
'The Golden Pose', directed by Lance Alton Troxel. A street performer grapples with artistic perfection...and mimes.
'A. Effect' directed by Mike Ott. Two aspiring actors do their best to woo the same girl with their knowledge of Brecht and Scorsese.
Tags Shorts Program
7:30 PM
to 7:45 PM
The Better Half
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Gordon keeps a mysterious pair of mannequin legs in his bedroom. Encounters with three women gradually reveal his fixation and ultimately ask the question: Can you ever have all of someone?
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
The Golden Pose
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About A street performer grapples with artistic perfection ... and mimes.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM
Thick as Thieves
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About While walking through an alley on his way home from his job as a bank teller, Marshall Jones is jumped by Emmanuel, a scraggly yet intimidating hoodlum. However, once Emmanuel notices an odd commonality, the two become unexpected partners in crime. Sort of.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:40 PM
Thompson
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Since second grade Matt and Ryan have shared the bond of speech impediments, weapons, and things that go fast. But as their last days of high school speed by, the two friends find that their go-carts, dirt bikes, and RC cars can't outrun adulthood.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
The story follows two best friends through a rough patch in their relationship. Matt is working hard to become a professional fisherman and finish his senior year of high school. Ryan was recently expelled from Hart High for calling in a bomb threat. As the year winds down, Ryan is running out of options while his best friend Matt is moving on in a different direction.
Tags Documentary Short
7:30 PM
to 7:40 PM
Unlimited
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About An impressionistic evocation of nighttime New York, Unlimited explores the hidden backrooms and marginal neighborhoods of the city as Ben, a young Chinese immigrant, cobbles together an existence selling the cast-offs of others.
Tags Narrative Short
7:30 PM
to 7:37 PM
Wing It
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About When a drug deal goes wrong and a violent confrontation seems inevitable, two guardian angels must decide whether to take action to protect their guys, or risk losing their wings.
Tags Narrative Short
8:30 PM
to 9:54 PM
Bomber
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping bombs on Germany. Lovelorn son Ross finds himself trapped in a nightmare road-trip with his parents when he agrees to drive his 83 year old father to Germany, so that the old man can apologize to a village he accidentally bombed during the war.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:32 PM
Modern Love Is Automatic
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Lorraine Schultz works as a nurse in a doctor's office. Every day she rides the bus to work, listens to her co-workers gossip, comes home. None of it really matters. After finding an issue of Shackled Monthly on the bus, Lorraine is drawn into a secret, seedy world of lonely men, cheap motel rooms, and whips and chains. Meanwhile, her roommate Adrian's dreams of becoming a glamorous fashion model are cut short when the only employment she can find is showcasing mattresses in a strip mall. Will Lorraine's secret life as a dominatrix be revealed? Will Adrian sell enough mattresses to be featured in the big coupon spread? In pursuing their hidden desires and misguided dreams, both girls find their paths crossing in ways they never expected. Yeah. Sure. Okay.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:33 PM
Sorry, Thanks
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Upon visiting her ex's to collect her belongings, Kira returns anxiously to dating and immediately collides with the disheveled Max. Disaster looms when Max (already taken) decides to dabble in two new pursuits: an obsessive-tending interest in Kira, and the mystery of whether he may in fact be an ass. Kira, meanwhile, fights to win a job she's far too smart for, then sabotages her only meaningful romantic prospect when a friend lays it on the line. Shot in San Francisco's Mission District, featuring the comic duo of Wiley Wiggins & Andrew Bujalski (who plays the best friend on the frontlines of Max's emotional shortcomings), and introducing newcomers Kenya Miles & Ia Hernandez. "Sorry, Thanks" charts turmoil, deep fallibility and the wreckage of self-delusion. In a laughy kind of way.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:26 PM
The Yes Men Fix the World
26 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (dir. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr, 2009) is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:17 PM
My Suicide
29 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himselfÑ on cameraÑ for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra- the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a 'Shady Bunch' of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.
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10:00 PM
to 11:31 PM
ExTerminators
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About "Ex-terminators" is a black comedy centering on Alex (Graham), a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court ordered therapy. There she meets Stella (Coolidge), the owner of a small extermination business who uses her car as a weapon; and Nikki (Heard), a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women will form their own 'silent revolution', wrecking havoc on the men of Texas.
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10:00 PM
to 11:30 PM
Favela on Blast
25 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About For 20 years, a subculture in Brazil has emerged under society's radar. Favela on Blast tells the stories of sex, love, poverty and pride for Rio's marginalized people. They have their own language, style, and heroes. It's a movie that's fast, heavy and violent like the city itself. This film is a flash of a few lives of charismatic people that relate to the funk music and a retelling of the subculture itself.
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10:00 PM
to 11:30 PM
Locusts
6 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Detroit-based Hip-Hop artists, Invincible and Finale, rhyme about how short-term profit-driven urban development schemes displace communities in their city. Through music, lyrics, and interviews with youth and community activists, including Grace Lee Boggs, Jessica Care Moore, and others, this groundbreaking documentary/music video offers alternative forms of economic development that engages communities and prioritizes the health and well-being of inner city neighborhoods.
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11:00 PM
to 12:24 AM
The Ceremony
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Psychology major, Eric Peterson has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime. To secure his dream job, Eric needs only provide a last minute paper to appease his superiors. As he prepares for graduation, he encounters a mysterious find left behind by a roommate; a gothic book called, The Ceremony. The book is too difficult to ignore for the intellectual Peterson who believes he has found the perfect case study for his report. However, his curiosity soon builds from initial interest to precarious obsession as the book's contents create a world where reality has begun to fade. As night falls, Eric finds himself imprisoned within a mental state of confusion as his home seems to have been overcome by a seemingly malevolent force.A film that dares to challenge traditional thrillers, The Ceremony creates a vivid mystery surrounding a young man's circumstances as he struggles to identify what is happening around him, or what could be happening... from within.
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11:59 PM
to 1:31 AM
Zift
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About A Bulgarian neo-noir murder mystery about Moth, a man who is freed from prison on a wrong conviction. His quest for truth leads him into a diabolical city of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and bizarre characters. Through flashbacks, hallucinations and sensual encounters, Moth finally gets to the bottom of the conspiracy.
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11:00 AM
to 11:07 AM
Alexander Family Farm
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Kim Alexander lives as close to the city as you can get and still be country. The furthest an egg travels from his farm is 30 miles, a distance unheard of in our global food economy. Though a staple in American diets, the origins of our eggs can be a mystery.
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11:00 AM
to 11:06 AM
Casimiro
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Casimiro is the story of an illegal immigrant living in central Texas. As we follow him throughout his daily routine we realize the difficulties, both physical and emotional he is forced to confront. Casimiro begins his day trying to write an encouraging and positive letter to his family back in his homeland. As the day progresses, we can experience that the American dream Casimiro was after has resulted in a much more difficult journey, one which he has to overcome alone. His solitude and inability to adapt to a strange world ultimately create a distance between Casimiro and his family, one that goes beyond the physical boundaries of countries and cultures.
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11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Coffee
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About COFFEE is about Sara, a woman whose relationship has fallen apart. She is waking up on this particular morning to a disheveled house, half packed in boxes. Going about her morning in a daze, Sara allows innocuous little things to affect her. When it's time for a sincere reaction to her surroundings, she simply feels numb. Coffee might help.
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11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Entre Lineas (Between the Lines)
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About "Entre Lineas" is a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
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11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM
Jack & Holly
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Jack and Holly are a young couple who struggle as hard economic times put pressure on their relationship.
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11:00 AM
to 11:12 AM
Love, Sadie
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life through the intimate exchange of handwritten notes.
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11:00 AM
to 12:36 PM
Texas Shorts
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Jack & Holly', directed by Robbie Bourland. A young husband has lost his job and is reluctant to lean on his wife for emotion and finical support.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.
'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.
'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.
'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.
'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.
'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.
'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.
'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.
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11:00 AM
to 12:02 PM
The Least of These
3 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling conditions at the facility. This compelling film explores the role - and limits - of community activism, and considers how American rights and values apply to the least powerful among us.
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11:00 AM
to 11:14 AM
Tough Love
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Tough Love' is ostensibly about boxing. Really, though, it's about boys and men looking for love and affection through time-honored rituals. Instead of teaching violence and aggression, the sport shows young men nurturing and tenderness, as each generation passes along its knowledge and appreciation of the sport to the next.
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11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM
Uprush
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About On the brink of adulthood, swimming can seem like the most dangerous thing in the world.
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11:00 AM
to 11:05 AM
Ventilo
Location Alamo Lamar 2
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About A drama about a young woman's journey through a fantasy world of feather fans and beauty. She soon discovers that life is not an open door. There are many ways to fail and only one way through. Acceptance, rejection, fear, and courage all have their place in Ventilo.
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11:30 AM
to 12:58 PM
Breaking Upwards
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About 'Breaking Upwards' follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up. The film blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction by casting real life couple (and filmmakers) Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves. Together they explore alternatives to monogamy, inventing rules and boundaries in an effort to avoid pain. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
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11:30 AM
to 12:56 PM
It Came From Kuchar
10 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious and touching documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. As kids in the 1950s, George and Mike Kuchar began making no-budget epics in their Bronx neighborhood starring friends and family with their 8mm camera.
In the 1960s the Kuchars became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene.
The Kuchar brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all interviewed in this film).
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of consciousness tale.
In the 1960s the Kuchars became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene.
The Kuchar brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all interviewed in this film).
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of consciousness tale.
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11:30 AM
to 12:42 PM
The Eyes of Me
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About An extraordinary look at 4 blind teens. The parallel stories of 2 freshmen and 2 seniors unfold over the course of one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin. EYES offers a fresh perspective on growing up and fitting in.
Distilled from over 250 hours of footage, this experiential doc captures a textured portrait of its characters. Director Keith Maitland worked closely with the film's subjects to produce sequences of stylized rotoscopic animation to complement the film's observational aesthetic.
Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their thoughts, their perceptions, their inner-visions of the outer world. You cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.
How do you see yourself when you can't see at all?
Distilled from over 250 hours of footage, this experiential doc captures a textured portrait of its characters. Director Keith Maitland worked closely with the film's subjects to produce sequences of stylized rotoscopic animation to complement the film's observational aesthetic.
Forced to confront the world without sight, they share their thoughts, their perceptions, their inner-visions of the outer world. You cannot understand their perceptions without challenging your own.
How do you see yourself when you can't see at all?
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12:30 PM
to 1:56 PM
St. Nick
11 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About St. Nick is the story of a brother and sister on the run. He's eleven, she's nine. They've left their home for some unknown reason, and are living in the woods, hiding in barns and sheds, doing what they can to survive. As the bitter Texas winter sets in, they strike up residence in an abandoned house and, for a brief, bittersweet period, manage to escape the harsh realities of their circumstances.
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1:30 PM
to 2:30 PM
Creative Nonfiction
14 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Ella is a college student, but she's more focused on her pseudo-romance with her dorm mate Chris than on the screenplay she's supposed to be finishing for her Creative Writing class. Reality and fiction are indistinguishable as she tries and fails to differentiate her script from her increasingly awkward social life.
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1:30 PM
to 2:52 PM
Winnebago Man
32 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of -- after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man."
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2:00 PM
to 3:32 PM
Severe Clear
9 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraqi. Through their cameras we see the raw sounds of war, capturing the harrowing three hundred mile charge to Baghdad through hostile enemy territory. The footage used to create Severe Clear was never shot for the purpose of making a movie. In this digital age of embedded reporters, the film truly strips the barriers between audience and soldier, personalizing the fear, moral conundrum and adrenaline rush of life on the battlefield. Severe Clear offers an unflinching look at the uncertainty, disorder and chaos of war from the remarkable perspective of one Marine.
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2:00 PM
to 3:08 PM
Sissyboy
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A juncture in the lives of performance art revolutionaries, 'Sissyboy' explores the Portland-based gender-bending drag troupe that has served up their audacity, ambivalence and social commentary throughout the Rose City for over 3 years before hundreds of devoted fans.
Go behind the scenes for a glimpse of Sissyboy's last year of existence through the eyes of 1st-time filmmaker Katie Turinski. The rehearsals, relationships, joys and heartaches experienced by this patchwork family of outcasts should be remembered not just as a performance art movement, but also an insight into the human condition.
Please enjoy the hubris & humanity offered by this troupe of societal outsiders as you discover what it means to be a Sissy.
Go behind the scenes for a glimpse of Sissyboy's last year of existence through the eyes of 1st-time filmmaker Katie Turinski. The rehearsals, relationships, joys and heartaches experienced by this patchwork family of outcasts should be remembered not just as a performance art movement, but also an insight into the human condition.
Please enjoy the hubris & humanity offered by this troupe of societal outsiders as you discover what it means to be a Sissy.
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2:00 PM
to 3:11 PM
Sunshine
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About It all starts with getting knocked up. An unplanned pregnancy for an unplanned girl sets off SUNSHINE, a playful, yet ultimately stirring self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search for answers through reconnection with her biological mother. Woven together from over 10 years of super 8 and video home movies, intimate family interviews, shimmering dance sequences and stylized reenactments, SUNSHINE offers a refreshingly rare glimpse on the current day transformations taking place within our most sacred of institutions.Young, pregnant, single and unprepared, the daughter/director struggles with the incredible ironies of the family, as she struggles to raise her own daughter and understand the plight of her biological mother.
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3:00 PM
to 4:34 PM
Three Blind Mice
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last testosterone-packed night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancée and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
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3:30 PM
to 3:56 PM
The Big Squeeze
6 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About The Big Squeeze is a joyful leap into the heart of Texas music. And where there's music there's usually some grilling going on. That's why Herminio Ramirez builds a stage right in the tiny kitchen of their Houston home for his son John. From the urban barrios of Houston to the colonias along the U.S.-Mexican border, legacies fueled by the passion-stirring combination of family, friends and food, is being passed along. In The Big Squeeze, we follow 16 year old John Ramirez and other young musicians as they do battle at the statewide accordion throwdown.
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3:30 PM
to 5:00 PM
4:00 PM
to 5:45 PM
Awaydays
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Paul Carty is 19, good-looking, funny, clever Ð and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on clubs, records, football and gigs. It's at a Bunnymen gig that he meets Elvis. Elvis changes everything.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.
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4:00 PM
to 5:53 PM
Strongman
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Stanless Steel can leg-press 10,000 pound dump trucks, drive nails through boards with just his bare hands, and can even bend a U.S. penny in his fingersÑa feat no one else in the world can accomplish. These are acts, he feels, not just of physical strength but of mental and emotional strengthÑdemonstrations of the kind of change possible through will-power and perseverance. Yet as Stan reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships begin to test these strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around himÑincluding his own.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.
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4:30 PM
to 5:47 PM
Still Bill
12 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Bill Withers is an unexpected superstar. "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day," and "Just the Two of Us" are only part of a complex and fascinating character: an icon who left the industry behind but never gave up his soul. You know his songs. Now meet the man.Featuring a tribute concert, a soundtrack with previously unreleased tracks, and rare live performances.
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4:30 PM
to 5:59 PM
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
22 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, filmmaker Bradley Beesley visits and explores an oddball American phenomenon: that of the prison rodeo. He journeys with his cameras to Oklahoma State Prison - the only remaining U.S. prison rodeo that is actually located on penitentiary grounds - and watches, cameras rolling, as ill-prepared male and female convicts risk their lives for the promise of cash and a brief spotlight.
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5:30 PM
to 6:50 PM
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
7 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Brock Enright, and his girlfriend Kirsten Deirup drive from Brooklyn, NY to her family's cabin in Mendocino, CA to prepare for his first solo show at a prominent New York gallery. As Enright struggles to produce what could be his most significant work, his relationship with Kirsten, her family, and the gallery is strained by his violent, explicit, and challenging creation.
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6:00 PM
to 7:42 PM
Number One With A Bullet
13 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About From the ghettos of Philadelphia to the boardrooms of Los Angeles, NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET pulls back the curtain on gun violence in Hip Hop. This documentary follows five rappers with experience on both ends of the barrel (Young Buck, B Real, Obie Trice, The Last Mr. Bigg, and 40 Glocc) as they take viewers back to the scenes of the crimes and into their darkest hours. They are joined by a diverse cast of Hip Hop luminaries (Mos Def, KRS One, Ice Cube and more), community activists, police officers, doctors and citizens to expose the physical, mental and emotional scars of gun violence in the streets and in the music.
From the makers of BEEF, QD3 Entertainment bring you NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET, a groundbreaking look into the epidemiology of gun violence within Urban America.
From the makers of BEEF, QD3 Entertainment bring you NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET, a groundbreaking look into the epidemiology of gun violence within Urban America.
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7:00 PM
to 8:36 PM
Artois the Goat
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known, and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. She has taken a new job in Detroit and to follow her means signing his life over to his soul-sapping career in artificial flavor additives. To stay behind and pursue his newfound passion for fine artisanal goat cheese, is to risk losing her forever. Despite his lack of resources, experience, or basic competency in the field of agriculture, Virgil heads for the hills (literally) with a felonious German baker, a grave-digging hermit, and a tiny white goat named Artois. With Angie awaiting his imminent return and a conference of the International Cheese Consortium just a few months away, he has no choice but to go for broke. Throw away everything he has on a gamble: That, before it is too late, he can craft a cheese that will change the world. A cheese that will buy him a new life. A cheese of destiny.
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7:00 PM
to 8:25 PM
Four Boxes
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Trevor Grainger, Amber Croft and Rob Rankrus run Go Time Liquidators Ð an ambulance-chasing eBay auction business. In a dead man's destroyed suburban house they start watching a bookmarked surveillance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. If fourboxes.tv isn't just more internet BS, then a crazed creep they call Havoc is building enough bombs to, like, kill everybody.
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7:00 PM
to 8:34 PM
Over the Hills and Far Away
9 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about one family's struggle to find answers to their son's autism. Shot over the course of two years, this film follows the Isaacson family as they journey on horseback across Mongolia from healer to healer, and the amazing healings they found for their son, and for themselves. An inspiration to think outside the box, a travel adventure, an insight into shamanic traditions, the autistic mind, and man's relationship with animals; at its heart, Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about a family that went to the edge of the earth to find a way into their son's life.
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7:30 PM
to 8:51 PM
You Wont Miss Me
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
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8:00 PM
to 9:23 PM
Trust Us, This Is All Made Up
26 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Described by the New York Times as "Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv", Tj Jagodowski and David Pasquesi have become living legends in their field. Their performances of entirely improvised, character-driven, often hilarious and wholly original one-hour plays have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Exploring the folds of faith that underlie their relationship and the transcendental forces that govern their improvisation, TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP features an unforgettable live performance recorded at New York's Barrow Street Theater. Whether you're a student of improvisation or simply interested in the underpinnings of human imagination and the depths of mutual understanding, this journey will leave you laughing, guessing, and in awe of this altogether remarkable feat.
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9:00 PM
to 10:18 PM
TRIMPIN: the sound of invention
24 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION is an amusing journey through the musical world of an eccentric creative genius.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:19 PM
Berlin Calling
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Berlin electro composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), called DJ Ickarus, is touring the dance clubs of the world with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel). They are about to release their biggest album to date. But when Ickarus gets high on drugs after a gig and is taken to a Berlin psychiatric clinic, all of their plans go awry. A tragicomedy set in today's Berlin.
Tags Narrative Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:01 PM
Best Worst Movie
19 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In 1989, unwitting Utah actors starred in the undisputed Worst Movie in History: TROLL 2. Two decades later, the legendarily inept film's child star unravels the improbable, heartfelt story of an Alabamadentist-turned-cult movie icon and an Italian filmmaker who come to terms with this genuine, internationally revered cinematic failure.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:00 PM
The Dungeon Masters
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About An evil drow elf is displaced by Hurricane Katrina. A sanitation worker lures friends into a Sphere of Annihilation. A failed super-villian starts a cable-access show involving ninjas, puppets and a cooking segment.
These are the characters, real and imagined, of Keven McAlester's documentary THE DUNGEON MASTERS. Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the storied role-playing game, and its various descendants. As their baroque fantasies clash with mundane real lives, the characters find it increasingly difficult to allay their fear, loneliness, and disappointment with the game's imaginary triumphs. Soon the true heroic act of each character's real life emerges, and the film follows each as he or she summons the courage to face it. Along the way, THE DUNGEON MASTERS re-imagines the tropes of classic heroic cinema, creating an intimate portrait of minor struggles and triumphs writ large.
These are the characters, real and imagined, of Keven McAlester's documentary THE DUNGEON MASTERS. Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the storied role-playing game, and its various descendants. As their baroque fantasies clash with mundane real lives, the characters find it increasingly difficult to allay their fear, loneliness, and disappointment with the game's imaginary triumphs. Soon the true heroic act of each character's real life emerges, and the film follows each as he or she summons the courage to face it. Along the way, THE DUNGEON MASTERS re-imagines the tropes of classic heroic cinema, creating an intimate portrait of minor struggles and triumphs writ large.
Tags Documentary Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:12 PM
Pulling John
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About 'Pulling John' is the universal story of a champion, who after 25 years of success is now burdened with the inevitable transformation of aging. John Brzenk, the legendary armwrestler, who works as an airline mechanic by day must decide whether to leave the sport he was raised on or wait to be defeated by 2 up and coming titans. Voevoda from Russia, Bagent from West Virginia and Yoshi from Tokyo are the colorful characters who have been raised on the legend of John Brzenk. These men define themselves by not becoming champions but by defeating the legend that is known as Brzenk. In a philosophical and thrilling ride, 'Pulling John' culminates at the Zloty Tur Championship in Warsaw, where Bagent and Voevoda have the chance of their life, to dethrone the conflicted Brzenk.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:00 PM
to 11:08 PM
Big Pussy
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A nice-guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has... an odor.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:02 PM
Boob
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Some boob jobs are bad. Some are evil.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 12:30 AM
Butthole Lickin'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Sometimes lesbian love isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:06 PM
Fish Out of Water - The Nightmare
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About In a follow up to their 2008 Midnight Short, Tumble and Chestnut attempt to enter Fish's nightmare to ward off the embodiment of all things evil.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:07 PM
Food For Thought
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Two impulsive teens get a lesson in abstinence after they are caught "in the act" by their teacher.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
I live in the Woods
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A Woodsman takes us on a journey of funny, epic proportions. He addresses us in rhyme, and wins our love while showing us that even beings who seem happy and sweet have a side of them which craves blood, primal rage, and the award of conquering, say, a God. Incorporating outdoor stopmotion animation, pixilation, and stunning visual illusions, 'I live in the Woods' takes us on a flurry of back and forth emotions, while at the same time questioning the image of a God worshipped by the masses of America.
Tags Animated Short
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
Manbabies
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Two smooth talking toddlers discuss politics, the state of the economy, and poo.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 12:19 AM
Midnight Shorts
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Treevenge
dir: Jason Eisener
Where do Christmas trees come from? Oh, you'll see.
Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
dir: Matt Dilmore
A warm and fuzzy holiday treat for Grandma.
Butthole Lickin'
dir: Kanako Kyle Wynkoop
Sometimes lesbian love isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Big Pussy
dir: Todd Strauss-Schulson
A nice-guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has... an odor.
Receive Bacon
dir: James M. Johnston
A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles.
Fish Out of Water - The Nightmare
dir: Ben Barnes
In a follow up to last year's Midnight Short, Tumble and Chestnut attempt to enter Fish's nightmare to ward off the embodiment of all things evil.
Scatterbrained!
dir: Joe Avella
An educational video about an illness known as Scatterbrained. And Mountain Dew.
Food for Thought
dir: Will Hartman
Two impulsive teens get a lesson in abstinence after they're caught "in the act" by their teacher.
I Live in the Woods
dir: Max Winston
A woodsman's frantic journey, driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.
The Famishing
dir: Toby Gorman and Jay Rathore
On a remote mountain top, two hungry survivors get more than they bargain for in their quest for nourishment.
Manbabies
dir: Kirk Johnson
Two smooth talking toddlers discuss politics, the state of the economy, and poo.
Safety First
dir: Ross Wilsey
When trying to get back stolen loot, four backstabbing criminals learn the true meaning of safety.
Boob
dir: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion
Some boob jobs are bad. Some are evil.
dir: Jason Eisener
Where do Christmas trees come from? Oh, you'll see.
Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
dir: Matt Dilmore
A warm and fuzzy holiday treat for Grandma.
Butthole Lickin'
dir: Kanako Kyle Wynkoop
Sometimes lesbian love isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Big Pussy
dir: Todd Strauss-Schulson
A nice-guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has... an odor.
Receive Bacon
dir: James M. Johnston
A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles.
Fish Out of Water - The Nightmare
dir: Ben Barnes
In a follow up to last year's Midnight Short, Tumble and Chestnut attempt to enter Fish's nightmare to ward off the embodiment of all things evil.
Scatterbrained!
dir: Joe Avella
An educational video about an illness known as Scatterbrained. And Mountain Dew.
Food for Thought
dir: Will Hartman
Two impulsive teens get a lesson in abstinence after they're caught "in the act" by their teacher.
I Live in the Woods
dir: Max Winston
A woodsman's frantic journey, driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.
The Famishing
dir: Toby Gorman and Jay Rathore
On a remote mountain top, two hungry survivors get more than they bargain for in their quest for nourishment.
Manbabies
dir: Kirk Johnson
Two smooth talking toddlers discuss politics, the state of the economy, and poo.
Safety First
dir: Ross Wilsey
When trying to get back stolen loot, four backstabbing criminals learn the true meaning of safety.
Boob
dir: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion
Some boob jobs are bad. Some are evil.
Tags Shorts Program
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
Receive Bacon
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:03 PM
Safety First
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About When trying to get back stolen loot, four backstabbing criminals learn the true meaning of safety.
Tags Experimental Short
11:00 PM
to 11:04 PM
Scatterbrained!
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Joe and Tim give you the straight dope on Scatterbrainedness. What it is, how it works, how to get it, how to avoid it, and what it is. Believe it.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:11 PM
The Famishing
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About On a remote mountain top, two hungry survivors get more than they bargain for in their quest for nourishment.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:15 PM
Treevenge
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Where do Christmas trees come from? Oh, you'll see.
Tags Narrative Short
11:00 PM
to 11:01 PM
Warm and Fuzzy Feeling
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A warm and fuzzy holiday treat for Grandma.
Tags Experimental Short
11:59 PM
to 1:28 AM
A Film With Me In It
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Mark (Mark Doherty) is having a bad day. A struggling actor, he's just been through the ordeal of yet another fruitless audition for a bit part in a movie. With his long-suffering girlfriend about to walk out and his landlord ready to evict him he's only got his best mate Pierce (Dylan Moran) and their joint ambition of writing a career-breaking film to sustain him.
Life's not easy, but things are about to get worseÉmuch worse, and then someone dies and things get really bad!
Life's not easy, but things are about to get worseÉmuch worse, and then someone dies and things get really bad!
Tags Narrative Feature
11:00 AM
to 12:44 PM
My Generation
17 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About "My Generation" examines the enduring influence of the Woodstock legacy and the continuing search for community and ritual through the experiences of boomers and Gen X'ers at the three Woodstock Festivals.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:00 AM
to 12:37 PM
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
17 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About When Dory's life seems like it's going down the drain, a strange 'new life' takes shape inside him and he learns that sometimes you don't have to find meaning, it grows in you.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM
A Hospital Bathroom
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Two strangers have a short and terrible conversation in a hospital bathroom.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 12:42 PM
Alexander the Last
18 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About A sensual and intimate portrait of a young marriage from director Joe Swanberg and producer Noah Baumbach. Focusing on an artistic young couple, Swanberg illuminates the challenges of monogamy amidst myriad sexual and creative temptations. Starring Jess Weixler, Justin Rice, Barlow Jacobs, Josh Hamilton and Jane Adams.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM
Cloudburst
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About In hopes that someone will find the tape, a passionate girl narrates the filming of her tornado suicide.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM
Fatal Fortune Cookie
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About After receiving a fortune cookie unlike any other, Sam finds himself dreading his own death by a gift he will receive the following day. "Fatal Fortune Cookie" will take you on a nail-biting ride with an ending that will leave you speechless.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:32 AM
Fresh Fruit
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Fresh Fruit' is about the secret lives of fruit living in a refrigerator. An apple and a pear discuss topics ranging from the end of the world to the meaning of existence. However, their secret lives are destroyed when interrupted by a hungry human.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:32 AM
Making Perfect
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A struggling beginner musician finds inspiration from his teacher.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 1:00 PM
Mirror
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About "Mirror" tells the story of Sadri who, while visiting a Middle Eastern city, enters a shop filled with rugs, trinkets, and other interesting items for sale. He stumbles across a mirror which becomes magical. He finds himself dragged through the mirror to an alternate world of monsters, where curiosity puts him in a bad situation.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM
Miss Tilford
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Milton, a geeky high school student obtains a magical Aztec idol that grants him three wishes. He bases all wishes on his desire for his hot teacher, Miss Tilford. She notices him. She kisses him. But his final wish is more than final.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM
One More Chance
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Sarah has had enough of James. He's more interested in hanging out with his friends and playing video games than spending time with her. When she tells him she wants to break up, he talks her into giving him one more chance...or so he thinks.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 1:00 PM
Performance Evaluation
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About After a surprising end to his relationship with his girlfriend, Chris struggles to find the reasoning in her actions. In Performance Evaluation, you learn that just about anything can be professional.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM
11:30 AM
to 11:31 AM
Save The Arts
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About This 60 second public service announcement covers what the true meaning of art is to students from various areas. Their passion for the arts is powerful and cannot be stopped. "Without art, we're lost"
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 12:40 PM
Texas High School Shorts
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About 'Cloudburst'Director: John Gordon
'Fatal Fortune Cookie'Director: Garrett Sullivan
'One More Chance'Mitch Collier
'Miss Tilford'Director: Beck Olp and Bryan Lawson
'Mirror' Director: Rachel Racanelli
'Zach'Director: Whitney Steele
'The Last Pageant'Director: Jason Broussard
'Save the Arts'Director: Nicole Prian
'Puppy Love'Director: Joseph Walsh
'Making Perfect'Director: Alan Michnoff
'A Hospital Bathroom'Director: Miguel Johnson
'Fresh Fruit'Director: Edward Kelley
'The Transcendence of Gabriel'Director: Sam Cooke
'Performance Evaluation'Director: Breannah Gibson
'When Life Gives You Lemons'Director: Jordan Haro
'Umbrella'Director: Ryan Kline
'Unearthed'Director: Adrian Scarborough
'Fatal Fortune Cookie'Director: Garrett Sullivan
'One More Chance'Mitch Collier
'Miss Tilford'Director: Beck Olp and Bryan Lawson
'Mirror' Director: Rachel Racanelli
'Zach'Director: Whitney Steele
'The Last Pageant'Director: Jason Broussard
'Save the Arts'Director: Nicole Prian
'Puppy Love'Director: Joseph Walsh
'Making Perfect'Director: Alan Michnoff
'A Hospital Bathroom'Director: Miguel Johnson
'Fresh Fruit'Director: Edward Kelley
'The Transcendence of Gabriel'Director: Sam Cooke
'Performance Evaluation'Director: Breannah Gibson
'When Life Gives You Lemons'Director: Jordan Haro
'Umbrella'Director: Ryan Kline
'Unearthed'Director: Adrian Scarborough
Tags Shorts Program
11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM
The Last Pageant
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About As Celina Masterson prepares for her final pageant, five competitors attempt to hide internal and external scars that may prevent the all important victory. As the competitive brutality intensifies from all five angles, Celina's past catches up with her. But it's her last laugh and her final cut that ends it all. Forever.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM
The Transcendence of Gabriel
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Gabriel is both an outcast of his high school and of society as a whole who wants nothing more out of life than to be a duck. He embarks on a quest to transcend the boundaries of human existence by imitating what he sees as "his own kind". The film is about the isolation and compromise that comes with the realization of an unattainable dream.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM
Umbrella
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A lonely teacher finds love with the help of an umbrella.This is the first festival screening of the film.
Tags Narrative Short
11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM
Unearthed
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About An excavation team unearths an unusual canine lupus species which is well-preserved. Spirits are high until things... and people begin to go missing.
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:32 AM
When Life Gives You Lemons
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A boy (Thost) pursues his self-proclaimed true love (Lewin) only to face rejection. All the while, a shy girl (Ramsdell) watches the boy with a deep infatuation for him. It is only after he learns the hard way, the boy discovers what really is "true love".
Tags High School Short
11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM
Zach
1 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Do you remember that kid in high school that knew everyone, and did everything; well that's Zach. He's a cool guy, everyone loves him and so will you. Experience the life of Zach and his fun teenage adventures. But the mystery of Zach will always live.
Tags Narrative Short
12:00 PM
to 1:24 PM
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
34 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.Which side of the ideas war are you on?
Tags Documentary Feature
12:30 PM
to 1:54 PM
Luckey
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About As this verite documentary film unfolds, viewers are drawn into an intimate family struggle. Tom Luckey is coping with recent and dramatic changes in his life. A sculptor, Tom was designing a three-story-tall climbable sculpture, the masterpiece of his career building interactive art, when he fell through a window and became paralyzed below his shoulders. Determined to finish his sculpture, Tom turned to his oldest son Spencer, an architect, for help. Spencer sees an opportunity to work with his father and to reclaim his boyhood relationship, which was interrupted by divorce and remarriage. As they try to forge a working relationship from a complex father-son relationship, Tom and Spencer find themselves reeling emotionally during the first year of Tom's paralysis, making working together explosive. Family dynamics are complicated by the fact that Tom's wife, Ettie, and Spencer don't get along. Stepmother and stepson, they become Tom's primary caretakers and companions, but can barely bring themselves to interact with one another. As Tom regains strength and ambition, but not mobility, enabling his artistic work while maintaining independence and sanity becomes a tricky balance for Tom, Spencer, and Ettie. LUCKEY is a portrait of a family in crisis and one man's efforts to create a new life in the wake of a devastating accident.
Tags Documentary Feature
1:30 PM
to 2:49 PM
For All Mankind
25 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About During the four years between December 1968 and December 1972 twenty-four men traveled to the moon. They were the first human beings to leave the planet Earth for another world. This is their story in their own words and pictures.
Tags Documentary Feature
1:30 PM
to 2:42 PM
Letters to the President
16 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About Exclusive access film about President Ahmadinejad of Iran, and what life is like under his regime. The film takes as its narrative thread the letters that supposedly ten million Iranians have written to the President.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:53 PM
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
51 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In 2008, British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN took rock and roll touring to new heights and embarked on the Somewhere Back in Time world tour. Flying in their customized Boeing 757 with 12 tons of equipment and 70 crew, Maiden traveled over 40,000 miles in just 45 days playing sold-out concerts from India to Los Angeles to the tip of South America. And not only did lead singer Bruce Dickinson perform all 23 shows, he also piloted the plane. IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666 brings the road trip movie to the air, taking you behind the scenes and inside the cockpit of the most ambitious tour in rock history. The film shows one of the world's most influential bands captivating new fans in cultures across the globe without support from radio or mainstream media.
Tags Documentary Feature
2:00 PM
to 3:11 PM
Monsters From The Id
13 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About The 1950's was an idealistic time in American History. It was also the Atomic Age where new technology promised to both save humanity as well as destroy it. All of these factors gave birth to the most prolific genres in film history, 1950's Sci-Fi Cinema. More then just little green men, 50's Sci-fi Cinema provided inspiration for the generation who achieved one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind; Spaceflight. Monsters From The Id weaves the intersecting themes of over 30 films in order to tell the untold story of the Modern Scientist and his role in inspiring a nation. The film continues to explore the psychological and cultural impact of 50's Sci-Fi cinema in America and asks, 'where is science inspiration found today?'
Tags Documentary Feature
2:30 PM
to 4:17 PM
My Suicide
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himselfÑ on cameraÑ for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra- the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a 'Shady Bunch' of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.
Tags Narrative Feature
3:00 PM
to 4:29 PM
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
21 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Imagine cramming 128 million people onto an island the size of Montana Ð you would be pretty close to replicating the density of Japan. Not surprisingly, space is at a premium and ergonomic design is right up there next to godliness.
Yet, even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative 'can of sardines,' people of all ages still make room for a little bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature's most efficient invention in space, design and function Ð insects.
Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald's Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.
Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan's captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the 'Isle of the Dragonflies.'
Along the way the film takes side trips to Zen temples and Buddhist Shrines, nature preserves and art museums in its quest for the inspirations that moved Japan into this fascination while other cultures hurtled off towards an almost universal and profound fear of insects.
Interspersed with the philosophies of one of Japan's best-selling authors and anatomists, Dr. Takeshi Yoro, and laced with poetry and art from Japan's history, this film becomes about much more than insects. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' is set to the rhythm of traditional Japanese values in its attention to detail, harmony, and the appreciation of the seemingly mundane. It quietly challenges the viewer to observe the world from an uncommon perspective that will shift the familiar to the fantastic and just might change not only the way we think about bugs, but the way we think about life.
Yet, even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative 'can of sardines,' people of all ages still make room for a little bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature's most efficient invention in space, design and function Ð insects.
Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald's Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.
Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan's captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the 'Isle of the Dragonflies.'
Along the way the film takes side trips to Zen temples and Buddhist Shrines, nature preserves and art museums in its quest for the inspirations that moved Japan into this fascination while other cultures hurtled off towards an almost universal and profound fear of insects.
Interspersed with the philosophies of one of Japan's best-selling authors and anatomists, Dr. Takeshi Yoro, and laced with poetry and art from Japan's history, this film becomes about much more than insects. 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo' is set to the rhythm of traditional Japanese values in its attention to detail, harmony, and the appreciation of the seemingly mundane. It quietly challenges the viewer to observe the world from an uncommon perspective that will shift the familiar to the fantastic and just might change not only the way we think about bugs, but the way we think about life.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:00 PM
to 5:20 PM
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is the first documentary to dramatize the rich saga of American movie reviewing. Directed by Boston Phoenix critic, Gerald Peary, this movie offers an insider's view of the critics' profession, with commentary from America's best-regarded reviewers, including Roger Ebert, A.O. Scott, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Kenneth Turan. We also hear from articulate Internet reviewers, including Harry Knowles and Karina Longworth. Their stories are entertaining, humorous, personal and also historic. From the raw beginnings of criticism before The Birth of a Nation to the incendiary Pauline Kael-Andrew Sarris debates of the 1960s and 70s to the battle today between youthful on-liners and the print establishment, this documentary tells all.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
MINE
15 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About MINE is a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who determines the fate of the animals - and the people - involved? A compelling meditation on race, class and the power of compassion, MINE examines how we treat animals as an extension of how we view and treat each other.
Tags Documentary Feature
4:30 PM
to 6:00 PM
Neil Young Trunk Show
24 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Trunk Show: a traveling display of unique goods, packed and unpacked along the way - in Neil Young's case it's a display of soul in the musical and spiritual sense. Jonathan Demme presents NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW, with Young in the middle of a stage full of personal icons, at times alone in the center of a circle of his beloved acoustic guitars, at others in the midst of a handful of much-beloved musicians Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Ralph Molina, Anthony 'sweatpea' Crawford and wife, Pegi Young. There are delicately offered piano/guitar/voice numbers like "Ambulance Blues" and "Mexico"; mesmerizing electric travelogues into the artist's psyche ("No Hidden Path"); searing, chaotic anthems like "Hurricane" and 'Spirit Road"; and rarely performed pieces, like 'Harvest" that provide glimpses of Young's less public persona. Shot with a mix of video and film cameras, mostly handheld, the NYTS follows the assembling and presenting of a concert in breathtakingly intimate fashion, catching lighter moments backstage and between songs with Neil, the band and the crew. On stage, at times using dramatically long takes, Demme allows the audience to experience Young opening up his heart song by song, and then blowing it all away in heated, uninhibited displays of rock and roll power.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 6:14 PM
Know Your Mushrooms
23 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, GRASS, GO FURTHER and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS.
Tags Documentary Feature
5:00 PM
to 6:28 PM
True Adolescents
27 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About Meet Sam Bryant (Mark Duplass of The Puffy Chair and Humpday). He's an aging Seattle rocker with no job, no record deal, and no place to stay until he finds some room at his aunt's house in the suburbs. He's also the last guy anyone would pick to take two teens camping for some quality dude time. Written and directed by Craig Johnson, marking his feature directorial debut, TRUE ADOLESCENTS is a warm and spirited coming of age story that also stars newcomers Brett Loehr and Carr Thompson, and Academy-Award nominee Melissa Leo (Frozen River).
Tags Narrative Feature
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Charlie Hewson, 'Where Are You Going, Elena?'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Elena is fed up with bringing people their food, but when she runs away from her waitressing job, the utensils chase her down. Will she escape forever, or will a tenacious pepper shaker win her back?
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Chris Gordon & Dan Lubell, 'America, Let's Go'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Travel America, Agnieszka style. From New York to LA, Poland's brightest rising star hip-hops her way through a picture perfect postcard world of patriotic kitsch. America's newest pop sensation has arrived! Inspired by music and characters from Karen Odyniec's short film DEADLINE.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Don McCloskey, 'Mister Novocaine'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About In a fever dream where hands are people, one hand fights the pleasure of the bottle by telling his story through song.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
This classic tale of loss and woe features Pablo Ribba (illuminados para el fuego) as Adan the troubadour. Adan's innermost woe drives him from his lonely and tortured existence to the numbing satisfaction of the bottle.
In this world, one can almost hear the tortured cry of a soul in despair as Adan plays the guitar from place to place, his head hung low, his spirits sagging. The weight of the world virtually rests on his small shoulders.
Though, in this case, they are not only shoulders, but the most expressive fingers you have ever seen.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Fleet Foxes, 'White Winter Hymnal'
20 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Alone in a dark wood, 5 lonesome old men sit and ponder the meaning of their solitude. But they are not alone on this cold winter night. For a man older than time itself stands ready and willing to change everything with one swift motion. And he does, setting forth a chain reaction causing the world to spin wildly out of control, the forest grows and shrinks, snow lifts from the ground to the sky, dead mushrooms rise and shrink back to the earth, and the 5 lonely men grow slowly back to their young selves. This animated music video captures the cyclical nature of the Fleet Foxes tune in a magical, fantastically beautiful way.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Gnarls Barkley, 'Going On'
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A young man discovers how to travel to another dimension, but he has no idea what he will find when he gets there, or how he will get back. His friends all want to explore, but one by one, the fear of the unknown overwhelms them, and they are too scared to continue with him. Eventually finding another soul to brave the porthole with him, they jump throughÉ
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Javelin, 'Soda Popinski'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The Sea Floor Sea Urchin Dance Troupe dance to Javelin's "SODA POPINSKI."
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Kaki King, 'Pull Me Out Alive'
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About PULL ME OUT ALIVE is the music video for the lead single from Golden Globe-nominated musician Kaki King's album, Dreaming of Revenge. Co-directed by Edward Boyce & Doug Karr, with photography by Guy Godfree and animation design by Patrick Jasin, PULL ME OUT ALIVE was made without film camerasÑit consists of 5000 still photographs shot on Nikon D30s. There are no special effects; all of the light trails were created by hand, with up to eight individual light animators flashing LEDs and flashlights on and off over an eight second shot exposure.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
PULL ME OUT ALIVE follows Kaki as she travels through the city en route to a gig, collecting luminous experiences along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Hesta Pryne of Northern State.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Krista Muir, 'Leave Alight'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About With the flick of many switches, Krista Muir leads us out of the darkness with her powerful voice and resonant baritone ukulele. Light is the central character in this poignant performance piece.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Megachurch, 'Hyper Gospel'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The members of Mega*Church invite you to join them for a hyper-colored take on religious pomp and circumstance--joy, life, love, fabric, neon, baptism, and cookies!
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 6:50 PM
Music Videos
8 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Yeasayer 'Wait for the Summer'Director: Mixtape Club
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Kaki King 'Pull Me Out Alive'Director: Doug Karr
Temposhark 'Blame'Director: Motomichi Nakamura
Terp 2 It 'F@ck This City'Director: Drew Baldwin
The Hidden Cameras 'In the Na'Director: Joel Gibb
The New Pornographers 'Myriad Harbor'Director: Marc Lemond
Megachurch 'Hyper Gospel'Director: Lara Gallagher
Talkdemonic 'Duality of Deathening'Director: Orie Weeks III
Prefuse 73 'Aborted Hugs'Director: Jurassic Technology
Roots Manuva 'C.R.U.F.F'Director: Jessica Lux
Javelin 'Soda Popinski'Director: Ian McAlpin
Thunderheist 'Jerk It'Director: That Go
Charlie Hewson 'Where Are You Going, Elena'Director: Josephine Decker
The Sword 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians'Director: Mike Colao
Christopher Gordon 'America, Let's Go'Director: Karen Odyniec
Don McCloskey 'Mr. Novocaine'Director: Peter Rhoads
The Dirty Hearts 'Record Store'Director: Jose Jones
Tycho 'Meridian'Director: Brian Levi Bowman
The Saturday Nights 'Count it Off'Director: Travis Senger
Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal'Director: Sean Pecknold
Octopus Project 'An Evening With Rthrtha'Director: Phillip Niemeyer
Krista Muir 'Leave a Light'Director: Kara Blake
Gnarls Barkley 'Going On'Director: Wendy Morgan
Oren Lavie 'Her Morning Elegance'Director: Oren Lavie
Tags Shorts Program
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Oren Lavie, 'Her Morning Elegance'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The video animates the fantastic dream of a sleeping woman without ever leaving her bedroom, using her mattress as the canvas of the dream and her bed frame as the dolly of her journey.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Prefuse 73, 'Aborted Hugs'
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About An Ingenue is tormented by a Gentleman Caller, and her own sexuality in this expressionistic music video about paranoia, jealousy, filth, and rage.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Roots Manuva, 'C. R. U. F. F.'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A boy's journey through a nightmare toy war, set to a track by Roots Manuva.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Talkdemonic, 'Duality of Deathening'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About A robot lives alone in a tiny apartment. He's made a choice to be human, hoping that determination alone might allow him to make it so. He pretends to be a person, eating, laughing, talking with homemade dummies, all the while having no real idea why he's doing any of it. He figures there are just some things you do when you're human. He is given a vision. In the dream state he sees humanity for what it truly is, and realizes at once the error he's made. It isn't so bad, not being human.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 5:33 PM
Temposhark, 'Blame'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The music track is about loneliness, frustration, anger and hope. The story in the animation evolves arounda boy who is trapped in the lonely inner city and he keeps on trying to stay strong with hope for a bettertomorrow.The song title is Blame from the debut album The Invisible Line, written by Robert Diament and Youth (Martin Glover) Distribution in USA through Defend Music
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Terp 2 It, 'F@ck This City'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Nerdcore rapper Terp 2 It hates the city of Orlando, Florida so much, he wrote the song 'Fuck This City' and then made a music video so everyone could feel and understand his hatred. Produced by internet comedy video group Studio 8, 'Fuck This City' turns the usual flashy hip hop music video conventions on their heads and smooshes you deep inside Terp's angry head. Yet lurking beneath the hearty mixture of no-holds-barred trash talk and abrasive imagery hides the goofy soul and wit of Terp 2 It. By the end of the video, you might find yourself wondering whether you should be more afraid for Orlando or for Terp, should the two ever cross each other's paths. 'Fuck This City' can be found on Terp 2 It's debut album The Freshest Dude from Studio 8 Records.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
The Dirty Hearts, 'Record Store'
2 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Inside a Small Record Store, a teenager steals the new "Dirty Hearts" album, which leads to an over the top chase sequence, after a run in, with a local officer.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
The Hidden Cameras, 'In The Na'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Pairing the gestures of contemporary dance with an ecstatically high-energy pop song, In The Na depicts a scientific experiment in hypnotism and human behavior gone awry.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
The New Pornographers, 'Myriad Harbour'
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Hairband as interpreted by Fluorescent Hill.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
The Octopus Project, 'An Evening With Rthrtha'
19 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The music video "An Evening with Rthrtha" is a high-velocity psychedelic stop-motion animation made from thousands of photos on hundreds of layers using an eclectic array of analog animation techniques. The final result is a horrible/splendid array of bats, butterflies, that depicts "An Evening with Rthrtha".
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
As the band explained to the directors, "Rthrtha" is a large ancient and convivial pink bat that could fight large beasts on the order of Godzilla and Cthulu, but actually prefers a wild night out with friends.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
The Saturday Knights, 'Count it Off'
3 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About In a distinct Sesame street style, The Saturday Knights reinvent the kids show as a hip-hop singalong with puppets, numbers, kids and more.Shot on vintage tube cameras and with hand-drawn animation, this video is a blast to the past.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
The Sword, 'Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians'
4 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Under the light of a century old broken moon, a caravan of humanity's last survivors march through the civilized bones of wasteland earth to find one of "The Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians."
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Thunderheist, 'Jerk It'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Jerk it is our first music video, made for the band Thunderheist. It features skin giggling in slow motion, strobing animal prints, and a girl with a large rooster. After winning the band's contest, it premiered on pitchfork.tv. It has since received more attention than we ever imagined and for that we are humbled and truly grateful. We would like to thank Anna, Mike, Tristan, Caleb, Diana, Carey, Jennifer, Yoshiko, Eric, and Bronwyn for volunteering their time. Without them this video would not have been possible. We are also grateful to Grahm and Isis of Thunderheist and their manager Tash, and to all the bloggers and festival programmers who posted the video and took an interest in our work. Thanks!
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Tycho, 'Meridian'
5 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter. Fundamentally, material composes all things and all phenomena are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance and can neither be created or destroyed. Hence, we are all made of only what came before us yet discretely conceived through form; we are all made of earth and sky and stars.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Meridian uses time lapse footage coupled with a live action environment to describe the material connection between the ethereal universe and human perception. Featuring the track "The Daydream" by the ambient artist Tycho, star-scapes intersect a city and a female protagonist in the process of discovery within the context of ordinary life.
Tags Music Video
5:30 PM
to 7:00 PM
Yeasayer, 'Wait for the Summer'
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Inspired by Yeasayer's polyphonic harmony and tribal sound, this video follows migrating beetles, cosmic apple orbits, and primal spirits through the cycles of the planets and seasons.
Tags Music Video
6:30 PM
to 8:00 PM
De Ofrivilliga (Involuntary)
6 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About It's almost summer in Sweden and minor indiscretions and misbehavior abound. Leffe likes to show off his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he's drinking. Meanwhile, a righteous grade-school teach doesn't know where to draw the line: she insists her fellow educators need a bit of instruction. Then there are two young teenage girls who like to pose for sexy photos and to party, but one night in a park, a complete stranger finds one of the girls passed out drunk. A humorous look at lessons to learn, lectures to give and lines not to cross.
Tags Narrative Feature
6:45 PM
to 8:15 PM
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
7 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Saint Misbehavin' reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy Рa man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. We experience the impact one person can have and connect to the hope that each one of us can make a difference while keeping our sense of humor.Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, clown, and even a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin' we meet a true servant to humanity who carries his message through humor, compassion and a song he sings, called "Basic Human Needs".Saint Misbehavin' weaves together intimate verité footage, reflections from an array of cultural and counter-cultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.
Tags Documentary Feature
7:15 PM
to 8:47 PM
Modern Love Is Automatic
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About Lorraine Schultz works as a nurse in a doctor's office. Every day she rides the bus to work, listens to her co-workers gossip, comes home. None of it really matters. After finding an issue of Shackled Monthly on the bus, Lorraine is drawn into a secret, seedy world of lonely men, cheap motel rooms, and whips and chains. Meanwhile, her roommate Adrian's dreams of becoming a glamorous fashion model are cut short when the only employment she can find is showcasing mattresses in a strip mall. Will Lorraine's secret life as a dominatrix be revealed? Will Adrian sell enough mattresses to be featured in the big coupon spread? In pursuing their hidden desires and misguided dreams, both girls find their paths crossing in ways they never expected. Yeah. Sure. Okay.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:06 PM
500 Days of Summer
55 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true-to-life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair.
Tags Narrative Feature
7:30 PM
to 9:19 PM
That Evening Sun
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks' home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he discovers that his son has leased the farm to Abner's old enemy and his white trash family. Not one to suffer fools or go down easy, Abner moves into the old tenant shack on the property and declares that he won't leave until the farm is returned to his possession. But Lonzo Choat, the new tenant, has no intention to move out or give in to the old man's demands.
This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat, each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery.
Tags Narrative Feature
8:00 PM
to 9:25 PM
All Tomorrow's Parties
28 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow's Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:00 PM
to 10:30 PM
Intangible Asset Number 82
5 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About When Australian drummer Simon Barker hears a rare recording of Korean shaman Kim Seok-Chul - a grand master in his seventies playing with immense energy and complex technique Ð he knows immediately he must find and learn from the enigmatic shaman officially recognized as South Korea's 82nd Intangible Asset.Undeterred by years of setbacks and obstacles, and with the elusive Kim Seok-Chul now in his eighties, Simon returns to Korea for a seventeenth time. The journey becomes a rite of passage, as meaningful encounters with engaging and exotic characters prepare Simon for a fortuitous meeting with the shaman.Personal transformations result, and Simon and the artists who have become immersed in his search move naturally to collaboration, a testimony to the universal language of music.
Tags Documentary Feature
9:30 PM
to 11:15 PM
Make-Out with Violence
15 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 3
About "MAKE-OUT with VIOLENCE" tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their posh suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the zombie Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
Tags Narrative Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:32 PM
The Overbrook Brothers
17 Attendees
Location
Paramount
About Jason comes home for Christmas and his arch-rival brother, Todd, has a big surprise waiting for him -- but it's not a gift. It's secret information: The reason why Jason has always been the "least favorite" child, and it sends our hero on a hilarious cross-country journey to find out the truth about himself and his family.
Tags Narrative Feature
10:00 PM
to 11:30 PM
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 2
About A vibrant, soulful and in-depth look at one of the world s most popular and inspiring musicians, Senegalese hero Youssou Ndour, YOUSSOU NDOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE was shot over two years and across three continents. Following the Grammy-winning African icon as he releases his most ambitious album, EGYPT, a best-selling record in which, for the first time, Ndour sings about Islam. Upon release in Senegal, the album was considered blasphemous, bringing Ndour, perhaps the most popular Muslim artist in the world, face to face with the contradictions of his own religion.
Tags Documentary Feature
11:00 PM
to 12:27 AM
Lake Mungo
10 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 2
About Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist. He discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice's secret past emerges. Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story weaved into a 'documentary' that illustrates how the dead can forever haunt the living.
Tags Narrative Feature
11:59 PM
to 1:24 AM
Grace
9 Attendees
Location
Alamo Ritz 1
About After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life, but when the baby develops a desperate appetite for human blood, Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate decision.
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