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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
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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.
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11:00 PM
to 12:30 AM
Brüno Sneak Peek
35 Attendees
Location
Alamo Lamar 1
About Come early to guarantee admission.
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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.
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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?
Tags Narrative Feature
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.
Tags Narrative Feature
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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