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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Cool additions to local scene
Check out a valuable site, Film Austin. It’s good for festival info, movie jobs, screenwriting resources, incentives, business and gobs more. Recommended.
Big news over at Austin Studios: Catherine Parrington, an industry veteran, has been tapped as the new director of operations for the studios.
Parrington comes from L.A., where she worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment for the past 13 years. She will manage and market the Austin Studios facilities, negotiate rentals, direct facilities upgrades and oversee $5 million in renovations as part of Proposition 4, says the Austin Film Society.
Welcome to Austin, Catherine!
Marfa lights. And camera and action.
Matt Dentler, who needs no introduction in these parts, tells us about a very cool happening Saturday in, gulp, Marfa (now there’s a road trip for you).
It’s about movies, of course, a free, fun mishmash of docs, animation, experimental video and shorts culled from festivals.
Read the item on Dentler’s popular BLOG.
Or call 729-4979.
The Austin Film Society has added another Summer Moviemaking Camp due to popular demand. Here you go:
Learn to make movies with the pros! Our week-long camps teach hands-on storytelling techniques using digital video technologies. Students work together to craft a short film from start to finish in a fun-filled, project-based environment. … The finished product is screened for parents, friends and participants in our state of the art screening room. The Austin Film Society camps at Austin Studios includes a studios tour and activities led by local filmmakers.
Register HERE.
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Last night at the Alamo: maybe you can go
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Click for some Texas-made movies
An independent movie made in Texas? For real?
See the latest homegrown Texas indie “Coyote Funeral” on DVD. The movie, directed by Jason May and Phelps Harmon, is a sibling-rival drama set on Texas back roads.
Get more, including the DVD, at www.coyotefuneral.com.
Last week fellow blogger Omar Gallaga reported on Austin filmmaker Cole Evans’ foray into online exhibition with his gamer-related short “The Killing of a No Good Goomba.”
On his blog “Digital Savant,” Gallaga writes:
Austin filmmaker Cole Evans might not have won Nintendo’s Short Cuts contest and a trip to the Tribeca Film Festival, but the University of Texas radio-television-film program student probably made a few fans online.
Evans’ film, “The Killing of a No Good Goomba,” created with Johny Riggs, was a finalist in the contest, but failed to place in the top three when winners were announced Tuesday.
Read the rest HERE.
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