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Fellow filmmakers scribble jokes and taunts on the dry erase board in Clay Liford’s Arts+Labor office. A poster for his acclaimed short “My Mom Smokes Weed” cements the notion that Liford is anything but serious – except when it comes to filmmaking. At this moment he’s facing the hard work of revising and polishing his latest feature film, Slash. The coming-of-age comedy follows an introverted high school freshman obsessed with writing fan fiction about the sexual relationships of fictional characters. Comedy is deadly serious business. Liford sees the inevitable hard work ahead and knows it must be done. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
Fellow filmmakers scribble jokes and taunts on the dry erase board in Clay Liford’s Arts+Labor office. A poster for his acclaimed short “My Mom Smokes Weed” cements the notion that Liford is anything but serious – except when it comes to filmmaking. At this moment he’s facing the hard work of revising and polishing his latest feature film, Slash. The coming-of-age comedy follows an introverted high school freshman obsessed with writing fan fiction about the sexual relationships of fictional characters. Comedy is deadly serious business. Liford sees the inevitable hard work ahead and knows it must be done. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
A drum kit slouches in the corner of Karen Skloss’ home office. Her two dogs bump past looking for attention. On the living room coffee table rests a copy of Carl Jung’s The Red Book, an exploration of the collective unconscious and Skloss’ touchstone while penning her teen thriller The Honor Farm, which is in the editing stage and will likely premiere in the spring. On the wall is a framed poster for Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, the lush, dreamy documentary that Skloss edited. Oh, and those drums? Skloss plays them in the band Moving Panoramas, who just released their first album. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
A drum kit slouches in the corner of Karen Skloss’ home office. Her two dogs bump past looking for attention. On the living room coffee table rests a copy of Carl Jung’s The Red Book, an exploration of the collective unconscious and Skloss’ touchstone while penning her teen thriller The Honor Farm, which is in the editing stage and will likely premiere in the spring. On the wall is a framed poster for Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, the lush, dreamy documentary that Skloss edited. Oh, and those drums? Skloss plays them in the band Moving Panoramas, who just released their first album. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
Kat Candler’s office is a thorny twirl of dreams fulfilled and yet to come. Motocross helmets from her short film grown into feature-length Hellion top a bookcase filled to the brim with production notes. Watching it all is a poster of Diane Lane’s downcast, punk-rockified visage from Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, a 1982 film about a lost teenage girl thrust into stardom. Candler is just back from a New York City showing of “The Rusted,” a short film she wrote and directed as an outgrowth of Canon and filmmaker Ron Howard’s Project Imagination initiative. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
Kat Candler’s office is a thorny twirl of dreams fulfilled and yet to come. Motocross helmets from her short film grown into feature-length Hellion top a bookcase filled to the brim with production notes. Watching it all is a poster of Diane Lane’s downcast, punk-rockified visage from Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, a 1982 film about a lost teenage girl thrust into stardom. Candler is just back from a New York City showing of “The Rusted,” a short film she wrote and directed as an outgrowth of Canon and filmmaker Ron Howard’s Project Imagination initiative. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
Louisiana “Lucy” Kreutz used to bicycle across the Brooklyn Bridge to school. Now it, in a smaller Christmas ornament form, rests above where she creates. She has just opened a Kickstarter drive to raise finishing funds for her feature Quaker Oaths, about a divorcing couple who are required to have all of their wedding guests sign off before their bond can be torn asunder. She sublets space in Miguel Alvarez’s office as her latest vision is realized. A poster for Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo stares down at her workspace. She edited and co-produced the documentary, which inspired her to volunteer with Inside Books Project, a program that collects books for Texas prisoners. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
Louisiana “Lucy” Kreutz used to bicycle across the Brooklyn Bridge to school. Now it, in a smaller Christmas ornament form, rests above where she creates. She has just opened a Kickstarter drive to raise finishing funds for her feature Quaker Oaths, about a divorcing couple who are required to have all of their wedding guests sign off before their bond can be torn asunder. She sublets space in Miguel Alvarez’s office as her latest vision is realized. A poster for Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo stares down at her workspace. She edited and co-produced the documentary, which inspired her to volunteer with Inside Books Project, a program that collects books for Texas prisoners. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
It’s tough sometimes, Mario Troncoso says from his rented Createscape desk in a former Mrs. Baird’s bread factory turned creative hive in East Austin. He has a wife, three kids, and a passion for film. How do they mix? For now the answer comes with working on his new series, Hello Stranger. Troncoso recently left his job as producer and director for KLRU’s documentary series Arts in Context, but when they couldn’t find a suitable replacement, he agreed to come back to produce eight more episodes. “I didn’t want to let [KLRU] or the rest of my crew down,” says Troncoso. Days after these photos were taken he was cradling four Lone Star Emmys for his work on the show. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
It’s tough sometimes, Mario Troncoso says from his rented Createscape desk in a former Mrs. Baird’s bread factory turned creative hive in East Austin. He has a wife, three kids, and a passion for film. How do they mix? For now the answer comes with working on his new series, Hello Stranger. Troncoso recently left his job as producer and director for KLRU’s documentary series Arts in Context, but when they couldn’t find a suitable replacement, he agreed to come back to produce eight more episodes. “I didn’t want to let [KLRU] or the rest of my crew down,” says Troncoso. Days after these photos were taken he was cradling four Lone Star Emmys for his work on the show. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
It’s no mistake that Miguel Alvarez’s office in Canopy has an outer wall of expressive light. His photographs adorn the office’s inner walls. As a kid in San Antonio, he always wanted to be Spider-Man, or more accurately Peter Parker, the photographer always at work, always out to capture the perfect light and scene. Alvarez is at work producing the PBS series Austin Film Festival’s On Story and forever creating. He and office mate Lucy Kreutz kick back in reclining chairs and relax for just a moment before they get back to the business of making art. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
It’s no mistake that Miguel Alvarez’s office in Canopy has an outer wall of expressive light. His photographs adorn the office’s inner walls. As a kid in San Antonio, he always wanted to be Spider-Man, or more accurately Peter Parker, the photographer always at work, always out to capture the perfect light and scene. Alvarez is at work producing the PBS series Austin Film Festival’s On Story and forever creating. He and office mate Lucy Kreutz kick back in reclining chairs and relax for just a moment before they get back to the business of making art. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
A glass special jury award for his 2014 short film “Rat Pack Rat” rests on a small upright piano near the doorway to Todd Rohal’s small purple home. You’ll find him in the kitchen with a stack of note cards, ideas for what is ahead, possibilities, plans, play. Reels of actual film from his early projects are piled in a back room; a framed lobby card for Don Knotts comedy The Shakiest Gun in the West graces the wall. Rohal is forever searching for a Don Knotts-type to star in one his films. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.) -
A glass special jury award for his 2014 short film “Rat Pack Rat” rests on a small upright piano near the doorway to Todd Rohal’s small purple home. You’ll find him in the kitchen with a stack of note cards, ideas for what is ahead, possibilities, plans, play. Reels of actual film from his early projects are piled in a back room; a framed lobby card for Don Knotts comedy The Shakiest Gun in the West graces the wall. Rohal is forever searching for a Don Knotts-type to star in one his films. (See feature “Behind the Scenes,” Nov. 20, 2015.)
Austin Filmmakers’ Creative Spaces
