Austin Filmmakers’ Creative Spaces

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.)