Inside Movies

• Praise the Lord. Austin/Lockhart-made feature 'Screen Door Jesus' will at last see the light of theatrical day, landing at the Arbor on Oct. 14. A festival hit, the comedy by Kirk Davis centers around the discovery of an image of Jesus on a screen door in East Texas and the pandemonium of faith, race and hype that ensues. The film, which played at South by Southwest in 2003, is distributed by Indican Pictures. www.indicanpictures.com. — C.G.

• Stalwart Austin doc-makers Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein have been nominated for a Lone Star Emmy for their documentary 'Are the Kids Alright?,' a wrenching examination of children's mental health care in Texas, which aired on PBS in Houston. The third annual Lone Star Emmys are sanctioned by the National Television Academy and cover the 19 television markets in Texas. Winners will be announced Oct. 15 in Dallas. For details on the doc and how to get a copy of it, go to www.mobilusmedia.com/kids.html. — C.G.

• After losing its home at the dead Austin Music Network, 'The Austin Movie Show' is rolling on with a live, on-location format. Starting Oct. 16, Jegar Erickson and Leila Hernandez will host the show on the patio of the historic Paggi House (200 Lee Barton Drive) with a live audience that you are welcome to join. Stuffed with movie reviews, news and interviews, the show will be taped, then played on its Web site, austinmovieshow.com. 'If independent filmmakers can do it without a major Hollywood studio,' Erickson says, 'then the 'Austin Music Show' can have a TV show without a TV station.' The show will be taped at Paggi House at 6 p.m. Sundays ... In more AMS news, the show is accepting submissions to its Film Tournament 2.0, which will premiere during the Oct. 16 program. Short films will compete for 'artistic supremacy.' Deadline is Oct. 14. Rules and details at austinmovieshow.com. — C.G.

• The partly-made-in-Austin football flick 'Friday Night Lights' did so well in theaters, director/co-writer Peter Berg is making it a TV series, targeting a fall 2006 start on NBC, says Variety. Berg will write and direct the pilot. The series will follow the Texas high school football team in the present time. — C.G.

• You have two days to make an entire short film that's bloody and scary during Bloodshots: The 48-Hour Filmmaking Challenge, which happens Friday and Saturday. Filmmaking teams will meet at 7 p.m. Friday at the Alamo South, where they will be given a horror subgenre, character name, prop and line of dialogue. Completed movies will screen Oct. 5 through 9 and be judged by a celebrity panel for prizes. Everything at www.bloodshots.org. — C.G.

• Eleven of the funniest short films culled from the nationwide 48-Hour Film Project are on tap for Funny Shorts Made Fast, a Hurricane Katrina benefit screening at 7:30 tonight at the Dobie. All proceeds from the $10 tickets go to the American Red Cross. Each movie was written, shot and edited in two days by energetic teams of filmmakers. — C.G.

• 'Worm' leavings for sale: Props, set decor and costumes from the just-completed Austin shoot of 'How to Eat Fried Worms' — a family comedy starring former Pepsi pitch-girl Hallie Eisenberg and Thomas Cavanagh from TV's 'Ed' — will be on sale to the public from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Austin Studios, Stage 4 (1901 E. 51st St.). Sale stuff includes kids' clothing, furniture and housewares. Cash only, and no early birds. — C.G.

• Early submissions for the undergraduate student version of the Great American International Film Festival and Short Screenplay Competition are due Oct. 7. (The late deadline is Oct. 10.) Grand prize is $10,000, with other cash and movie equipment prizes. The festival happens at 3 p.m. Oct. 23 in the Texas Union Theater at the University of Texas. Details at www.TGAFP.com. — C.G.