by Jen Scoville
Right after the new year the low hum that exists in town many months before the
March SXSW Festivals increases decibels to an excited buzz that will surely get
louder as the dates near. We’re hearing now that the SXSW Film Festival &
Conference has a special registrants-only screening planned of director Sarah
Kelly’s Full Tilt Boogie — the making of From Dusk Till Dawn —
with the film’s director Robert Rodriguez and writer Quentin Tarantino in
attendance along with Kelly and Boogie producer Rana Joy Glickman. The
conference has also added Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies and videotape) to
its confirmed list of panelists. And the first news from the SXSW
Multimedia/Interactive Festival is its impressive list of panelists, including
Thomas Dolby Robertson (who now creates audio technology for Headspace, Inc.),
R.U. Sirius, multimedia artist Bill Barminski, David Barstow (Instant Sports),
Mike Godwin (EFF), Marc Hossler (Negativland), Jon Lebkowsky, Rev. Ivan Stang
(Church of the SubGenius), SF writer Bruce Sterling and Chipp Walters (Human
Code). Registration for Multimedia is $200 if postmarked by Jan. 13, call
512/467-7979 for more information…
The Texas Union Theatre is presenting a
series of free screenings of Films by Russian Women. The first program, Larisa
Shepitko’s Wings (1966), a film exploring how Stalinism permeated all
aspects of life through the story of a Soviet woman who was a once-famous
fighter pilot in WWII, will screen on Tues, Jan 14 at 7pm…
The local
networking group for women in the film industry, Reel Women, will hold its
monthly meeting on Wed. Jan. 15, 7pm at WATER House, 109 W. Johanna. Call Cyndy
Kirkland at 280-8706 for more information.
This article appears in January 10 • 1997 and January 10 • 1997 (Cover).