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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Indie film to be shot at downtown courthouse
An independent film will be shot at the old jail on the upper floors of the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse downtown, following Travis County commissioners approval Tuesday.
Commissioners approved a license agreement with Irregular Media to shoot a film tentatively titled “The Interrogator,” which is about a police officer in Houston who is forced to defend his family from a vengeful ex-interrogator he once trained in the military, according to county records.
Filming at the courthouse, which is at the corner of 10th and Guadalupe streets, will take place next week.
The producer and director provided required proof of insurance coverage, a check for $100 to cover administrative costs associated with the agreement, and will hire off-duty security guards or sheriff’s deputies to be with the crew during the film shoot, according to a county memo.
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SXSW event: NY Export: Opus Jazz
Folks lined up in the rain Tuesday to glimpse a unique take on dance/cinema history at the Alamo Ritz. “NY Export: Opus Jazz,” like a long-lost sibling to “West Side Story,” takes a vintage ballet by Jerome Robbins and restages it in the disused swimming pools and industrial spaces of contemporary New York City.
Audience members might have wondered why the visually gorgeous film, shot in a wider screen format than perhaps any other SXSW entry, was projected not on celluloid but on video, but the hourlong screening still felt like an event.
Some of the filmmaking team, including dancers from the New York City Ballet, came out for a brief Q&A about the production, which will air on PBS’s “Great Performances” this year.
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