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Local doc wins award
Austin filmmaker Nancy Schiesari’s documentary “Tattooed Under Fire” has nabbed an award from the Women Film Critics Circle, a 48-member-strong organization of women critics and scholars from around the world.
The group hands out several year-end awards, and we’re not sure which one Schiesari’s film received. We’ll tell you when we find out.
Update: Schiesari’s film won the Courage in Filmmaking award in the documentary section of the prizes.
Schiesari is a film professor at UT and a faculty member at the Austin Museum of Art. “Tattooed Under Fire,” a co-production of KLRU, aired on PBS last month. The doc is set at Fort Hood. Here’s what Austin360 TV critic Dale Roe wrote:
Schiesari’s documentary centers on the military ritual of getting inked, interweaving the personal stories of six central characters — and their relationships to the war in Iraq — with the visual expressions of their tattoos (River City Tattoo Parlor, a place where many of the Fort’s war-bound and returning soldiers go under the needle, is located across the street from the base).
More about the film, including a trailer, HERE.
More about the Women Film Critics Circle HERE.
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