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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Your Slam chance
The Slamdance Film Festival, grungy cousin to Sundance, wants your short and feature films for its 14th edition, Jan. 17 through 25 in Park City, Utah.
In a first, the fest is also accepting original TV pilot submissions. Early deadline is Aug. 27. Final deadline is Oct. 9. Rules, etc., at www.slamdance.com.
In local news, the Austin arm of the Texas Motion Picture Alliance is holding its next meeting at 7 p.m. June 18 at Mother Egan’s Irish Pub (715 W. Sixth St.).
Attendees will choose a new Austin regional representative and discuss two at-large seats from the Austin region and the group’s on-going structure.
The meeting will begin promptly at 7 p.m. To RSVP, email austintxmpa@mac.com.
Check out www.txmpa.org.
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‘Lights’ actor gets some ‘Speed’
Zap2it.com reports that Scott Porter of the Austin-shot “Friday Night Lights” will co-star in the Wachowski brothers’ feature “Speed Racer.”
He’ll reportedly play Rex, the older brother of Speed, played by Emile Hirsch. The remake of the classic kid cartoon, shooting this month in Germany, also stars John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox.
See the story HERE.
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A winner is crowned in ‘Star Wars’ contest
In a week-long online vote on Austin360 that ended June 1, Jones, a volunteer firefighter who plans to become a paramedic, scored the highest rating among the participants: About 80 percent of users agreed that Jones was strong in the Force.
Of the 3,639 users who watched the videos, about 433 watched Jones. The video of Susan Somers, an administrator on the ‘Star Wars’ fan site Wookieepedia, was the most watched at 633 page views.
The eBay-worthy prize for Jones will include: a boxed set of the original trilogy on VHS tapes, a ‘Star Wars’ baseball cap and an 18-inch poseable Boba Fett action figure.
The other contestants will not go empty-handed: each will receive a gift card to the Alamo Drafthouse.
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