Ragamuffin Film Festival
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The purpose of this annual festival is to encourage Christians to make films and explore the full range of human experience. Screening will be a batch of award-winning short films, including “The Perils of Nude Modeling” and the 2003 Academy Award nominee for Best Live-Action Short “Most.” Two documentaries include Beyond the Gates of Splendor, which chronicles the story of the Waodani tribe in the aftermath of the 1956 slaying of five American missionaries; and Frisbee: The Life & Death of a Hippie Preacher, which recounts the life of Lonnie Frisbee, the radical hippie turned Christian evangelist whose call into the ministry came while involved in the Laguna Beach homosexual scene.

This article appears in July 5 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.