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'The XXXX Saga' Production Diary: Week Six
Austin filmmaker James Christopher is directing Twitchy Dolphin Flix's new mockumentary-style features The XXXX Saga: Rise of the Beaver Slayer and The Porn Movie Massacre (no, they're not pornos)....
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Review: Trash Dance
Trash Dance opens Friday for a weeklong run at Violet Crown Cinema.The adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure is relevant to Trash Dance, but doesn't apply in the strictest sense....
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'The Happy Poet' Returns to Austin at Stateside Independent
Stateside Independent will screen The Happy Poet -- which premiered at SXSW 2010 -- Monday, May 6 at 7 pm [ticket info]. Cast members Jonny Mars, Chris Doubek and Liz Fisher, and producer David...
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'The XXXX Saga' Production Diary: That's a Wrap
Austin filmmaker James Christopher is directing Twitchy Dolphin Flix's new mockumentary-style features The XXXX Saga: Rise of the Beaver Slayer and The Porn Movie Massacre (no, they're not pornos)....
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Getting Up Close and Personal with 'Hands on a Hardbody'
By Margot NewcomerIt was a successful night at the Friday night screening of Hands On A Hardbody a couple of weeks ago, presented by Austin Film Society and Texas Independent Film Network. The event...
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Oak Cliff Film Festival Reveals its 2013 (Austin-Heavy) Lineup
The second annual Oak Cliff Film Festival seeks to showcase the best of independent filmmaking of all genres from Oak Cliff (a Dallas district), Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth and Austin. From June 6-9,...
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The Value of Shorts: David Fabelo and His 'Do Over' Philosophy
It's been native Austinite David Fabelo's philosophy for years: if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. It's worked in Fabelo's romantic life -- despite spilling a beer on a woman during their...
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Interview: Craig Whitney, 'The Garden and the Wilderness'
In Greek mythology, Icarus is given a pair of wings constructed out of wax and feathers by his father, with the advice that he is to follow his flight path and not to fly too close to the sun or the...
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Ready, Set, Fund: Visiting Seed&Spark
Ready, Set, Fund is a column about crowdfunding and related fundraising endeavors for Austin and Texas independent film projects.At South by Southwest this past March, I came across a new project...
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A Cinematic Guide to Texas Politics
Over the past few weeks, many people in Texas and out are being exposed to Lone Star political and legislative processes and quirks for the first time. It can be puzzling, rage-inducing and sometimes...
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Interview: Emily Hagins and the Producers of 'Grow Up, Tony Phillips'
The last time Austin-based filmmaker Emily Hagins went trick-or-treating was her senior year of high school, when her friends wanted to show a French foreign exchange student what the holiday was like...
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Lone Star Cinema: Along Came Kinky...Texas Jewboy for Governor
Why the hell not? -- Campaign slogan for Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky FriedmanShould Kinky Friedman be governor of Texas? There are plenty of reasons why the hell not. There also are plenty of...
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Austin Filmmakers Carry 'The Book of Joe' to Hollywood
It's an amazing honor to see local filmmakers' work showcased here in town. It's even more amazing when those same filmmakers have the opportunity to present their movies outside of Texas. Such is the...
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AFF Screens Texas Shorts on Wednesday
The Austin Film Festival has compiled a slate of short films for "An Evening of Texas Shorts" as part of their 20th anniversary celebration. This Wednesday evening at the Texas Spirit Theatre of the...
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AFF 2013 Announces First Wave of Film Programming
In addition to the short films already leaked via Twitter, the Austin Film Festival has now announced the first ten films of the 2013 lineup (including one from an Austin-based director) as well as a...
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'Black Metal' Back On The Scene (and Online)
It's always a great joy for us to bring you updates on our local filmmakers, so when we heard that Black Metal is back on the radar, we here at Slackerwood couldn't have been more thrilled. Director...
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Mike Blizzard Tracks Local History in 'Also Starring Austin'
For those of us who get our kicks seeing how many locations in locally shot films we recognize (see my Miss Congeniality review), producer/political consultant Mike Blizzard (No No: A Dockumentary) is...
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Ready, Set, Fund: Animation Love and Movie Geekiness
Ready, Set, Fund is a column about crowdfunding and related fundraising endeavors for Austin and Texas independent film projects.I've had a passion for animated films for as long as I can remember,...
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AFS Grants 2013: All the Details We Could Find (Part One)
Last week, the Austin Film Society announced its 2013 AFS Grants for 2013 --formerly known as the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund (TFPF). Between the AFS Grants and Travel Grants, AFS is giving away...
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AFS Grants 2013: All the Details We Could Find (Part Two)
Continuing from Part One, here are detailed descriptions of AFS Grants winners this year -- not just the blurbs from the press release, but any other material I could unearth on the web.Again, if you...
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