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.

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.
 

 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

8:00 PM
to 9:30 PM

Roadsworth: Crossing the Line
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.
 

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM

Home
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.

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.

4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM

Lies
1 Attendees
Location Hideout
About  Three perfectly true stories about lying.

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.

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.

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.

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'.
 

 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

 

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).

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM

Lies
4 Attendees
Location Hideout
About  Three perfectly true stories about lying.

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.

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.