The Art School at the Austin Museum of Art is again offering a film appreciation class this summer called Cinema Eye. It will use excerpts from classic and contemporary films from Gone With the Wind to GoodFellas to introduce students to the basic elements of film and visual narrative techniques. It will be taught by Alison Macor, who writes on film for The Austin American-Statesman (and formerly the Chronicle), and who is a Ph.D. candidate in the RTF Dept. at UT and has also taught at ACC. Classes will meet on Mondays, 6:30-9pm, July12 – August 9; tuition is $65 ($59 museum members)…
The speaker at the next Actors’ Alliance meeting on Tuesday, July 6, 6:30pm, at the Top of the Marc (618 W. 6th St.) will be casting director Barbara Brinkley. Admission is free to members, $5 for nonmembers…
As the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) has grown over the past 11 years into a bigger and more community-wide event, the hours put in by volunteer workers grows ever more intrinsic to the success of the event. This year the festival is scheduled for August 27 – September 9, and aGLIFF is looking for volunteers with varied interests and talents to contribute to the effort both prior to the event and during it. All volunteers must attend an orientation and training session during the last week of July. Application forms must be submitted by Thursday, July 1. To obtain the forms call the aGLIFF office at 302-9889 or send e-mail to Glor_aGLIFF@yahoo.com or Vol_dave@yahoo.com. Also, the deadline for film submission to the festival is imminent: Friday, July 9. Forms and rules can be obtained at the Web site at http://www.agliff.org…
The Austin Cinemaker Co-op is at it again. They’ve announced their next project: Score Wars: The Phantom Flicker. Each interested filmmaker must first create an original soundtrack on cassette or CD by July 7. All works will be then tossed into a box, and on July 9 the participating filmmakers will return to fish out a random score from the grab bag o’ soundtracks, go home, and make a Super-8 film based on that soundtrack by August 4. Speaking of “four,” that’s a relevant number: Only four splices and soundtrack cuts are allowed, and the films/tapes can be a maximum of four minutes in length. Call 236-8877 or stop by the group’s new office at the Artplex Building (1705 Guadalupe, #201) for more information or a complete set of rules…
The Austin Heart of Film Festival is scheduled for October 7-14. Held in conjunction with the four-day-long Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference, the eight-day-long festival of screenings is accepting entries for the feature, short feature, and student short film categories. Entries must be postmarked by August 7 and applicants must be one of the credited writers. Films must have been completed by June 1, 1998. The fee is $40. For more info or to download entry forms see http://www.austinfilmfestival.org, or call 800/310-FEST…
The final deadline for submission of scripts to the Slamdance Screenplay Competition is Friday, July 23. Slamdance is the upstart film festival in Park City, Utah, that runs concurrent with the Sundance Film Festival. Many of last year’s finalists have received studio options on their work and other high-profile attention. Info and application form are available at http://www.slamdance.com or by writing to Slamdance Screenplay Competition, 6381 Hollywood Boulevard, No. 520, Los Angeles, California, 90028.
This article appears in July 2 • 1999 and July 2 • 1999 (Cover).
