Narrative Feature
Monte Hellman directed Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Ride in the Whirlwind, and China 9, Liberty 37.
Tim McCanlies wrote and directed the independent feature Dancer, Texas, Pop. 81 and wrote 1999’s acclaimed animated feature The Iron Giant.
Kathleen Murphy is a film critic and contributing editor for Film Comment magazine.
Documentary Feature
Don Howard is an award-winning documentarian who also teaches at the University of Texas’ Radio-Television-Film Department. He directed Letter From Waco (Best Documentary SXSW 1997).
D. A. Pennebaker shot, directed, and edited documentaries including Don’t Look Back, The War Room, Moon Over Broadway, and Searching for Jimi Hendrix.
George Ratliff directed the documentary The Plutonium Circus (Best Documentary Feature at SXSW 1995). Ratliff is currently a segment director/producer for Split Screen on the IFC.
Narrative Short
Brent Clackson is the producer and a programmer of the Slamdance Film Festival. He is currently working on his first feature film.
Holly Willis is one of the co-founders of Filmmaker magazine and for seven years acted as the magazine’s West Coast editor before moving on to iFILM, where she is currently senior editor.
Documentary Short
Jack Blum and Sharon Corder are Canadian writer-producer-directors among whose many credits are the television series Traders, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the independent feature Babyface.
Richard Lewis has directed numerous short documentaries, including The Snow Monkeys of Texas and Chimp Rescue for National Geographic.
Experimental Short
Barnabas Kantor is a co-founder of the Austin Cinemaker Co-op, a Super-8 collective that promotes creative local filmmaking with screenings and workshops throughout the year.
Charles Nafus is a member of the Austin Film Society.
Animated Short
Charlie Wan is a digital effects and motion graphic designer at frogdesign.
Nick Gibbons is the director of “Radioactive Crotch Man” (Best Animated Short at SXSW 1998).
Music Video
Mike Gordon has directed and written many short films, documentaries, and music videos. His first feature, Outside Out, screens at SXSW 2000. Gordon is the bass guitar player for the band Phish.
This article appears in March 17 • 2000.