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Notes
from Austin, Volume 2 #28
austin
news
aGLIFF announced some of their schedule this week on their
website.
Of all of these, the film I look forward to most is "The Eyes
of Tammy Faye." This showed at
Sundance in January and I missed it. Soem friends of mine
even saw her and RuPaul on the street. I didn't. I was too
busy watching films and didn't get to celebrity gawk! Dammit.
"Eyes" has been released to a few cities already by it's distributor,
but it looks like this might be the first chance we Austinites
get to peep it.
Here's the info I gathered from aGLIFF's online site at
http://www.agliff.org
8/24 - FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING - 4TH STREET
8/25 - OPENING GALA "SORDID LIVES" - DELTA BURKE IN ATTENDENCE
9/1 - PUNKS - JAZZMUN IN ATTENDENCE
9/2 - CHUTNEY POPCORN
9/7 - CLOSING NIGHT - THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
ALSO
LOST IN THE PERSHING POINT HOTEL - LESLIE JORDAN IN ATTENCDENCE
THE SISSY DUCK (ANIMATED FEATURE WRITTEN AND VOICED BY HARVEY
FIERSTIEN)
THATS A FAMILY (DOCUMENTARY)
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK 2
COMMON GROUND
PARAGRAPH 175 (GAYS IN THE HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTARY)
AIMEE AND JAGUAR
BUT I WAS A GIRL
PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS
Members can begin buying their tickets on 8/16. You can
also buy a membership on 8/16 and then buy advanced tickets.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on 8/23
The agliff box office is downstairs at the Dobie Mall on
Guadalupe.
Tickets can also be purchased, and more accurate screening
time and info can be found at the festival's website www.agliff.org
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL FILM COMPETITION FINAL DEADLINE SEPTEMBER
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AUSTIN, Texas - Entries are still being accepted for the
2000 Austin Film
Festival Film Competition, with the seventh annual Festival
and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference - set for Oct.
12-19 - focusing on the artistic contribution of screenwriters.
The final deadline for entering a film into competition
is September 1 at a cost of $50. Categories are open to independently
produced features, shorts and student shorts.
Each finalist in the film competition receives two all-access
producers passes to the Festival (value, $695 each), 10 tickets
to the film's screenings, the option to attend a Master Class
conducted by a presenting Festival filmmaker, and inclusion
in the AFF Filmmaker's Catalogue, which is distributed to
all judges and other interested industry representatives.
Winners in the feature-length category receive all of the
above plus a cash prize of $750 and a special Winners' Night
Screening, with the winners of the short film and student
short categories also receiving the above and a cash prize
of $500. Winners in all categories will receive reimbursement
of one roundtrip airfare to Austin (up to $500) to attend
the AFF, hotel accommodations at an AFF hotel (not to exceed
$500) and the AFF Bronze Award.
Films that have received distribution as a direct result
of the film competition include Hands on a Hard Body (1997),
Lewis & Clark & George (1997), The Last Big Thing (1997),
La Cucaracha (1998), Went to Coney Island on a Mission from
God Be Back by Five (1998), Wednesday's Child (1999) and The
Hi-Line (1999).
The Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference is set for Oct.
12-15; the Film Festival runs Oct. 12-19. Conference registration
postmarked by September 22 is $370; after September 22, registration
increases to $410. An all-access producers pass is $695. Registration
includes attendance to the conference, exhibits, film screenings
and premieres, Q&As, and welcome and closing parties.
Confirmed participants to date in the 2000 Screenwriters
Conference include writer Shane Black (Lethal Weapon I & II,
The Last Action Hero, The Last Boy Scout); writer Bill Broyles
(Apollo 13,
Entrapment, Cast Away); writer/producer David Chase ("The
Sopranos," "Northern Exposure," "The Rockford Files"); actor/producer
Ned Dowd (Shanghai
Noon,
The Wonder Boys, The 13th Warrior, Slap Shot); actor/writer/producer/director
Paul Mazursky (Enemies: A Love Story, Down and Out in Beverly
Hills, Moscow on the Hudson); writer/director Tim McCanlies
(Dancer, Texas Pop 81, The Iron Giant), writer Anne Rapp (Dr
T and the Women, Cookie's Fortune); writer/producer Scott
Rosenberg (Gone
in Sixty Seconds, High
Fidelity, Con Air); screenwriter Ed Solomon (What Planet
Are You From?, Men in Black, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure),
actor/producer/director and former professional football player,
Fred 'Hammer' Williamson (From
Dusk Till Dawn, Black Caesar, M.A.S.H., Down and Dirty);
and Bill Wittliff (The Perfect Storm, Lonesome Dove).
Additional screenwriters, talent agents, managers, distributors,
network and studio executives attending are Marty Bowen, Jenny
Frankle, Mickey Frieberg, Sheila Gallien, John Scott Shepherd
and Larry Wright.
The Austin Film Festival is the first festival dedicated
to recognizing the writer's contribution to the motion picture
and television industries.
For more information, please call the Austin Film Festival
at 800.310.FEST or visit www.austinfilmfestival.com.
Things
to do this Week (8/11-8/17) : Lodger's
picks: "Dark Side of the Rainbow" at the Alamo Drafthouse,
All Day Punk-a-Thon at the Flamingo Cantina.
Notes
From Austin : I wanted to show Web how gay Aaron is, but
he didn't get any dings on his "gaydar." Of course, Web is
straight, but I guess straight people can have gaydar too,
just not as finely tuned, perhaps. After we watched the show
for a while, however, I think Web was seeing things my way.
Hollywood
News : Leonardo Dicaprio on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted
List, "Around the Fire" on Video/DVD and CD but on a 10 most
wanted list...?
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