Scoring a Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund grant is kind of like winning the lottery, if the lottery was based on talent and initiative and the wherewithal to fill out an application form and apply the right postage.
The TFPF, the funding arm of the Austin Film Society, doled out more than $100,000 in grants over the weekend. Out of 183 applicants, the panel of filmmaker judges Sam Green (The Weather Underground), Emily Hubley (The Toe Tactic), and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer) selected 24 Texas-based projects to receive $93,000 in cash, $6,000 in Kodak film stock and $5,000 in in-kind services from Alpha Cine Labs.
See list below for grant winners.
59 SECONDS
Angela Torres Camarena
15 min narrative
$3,500 production, post-production & distribution
BIG BOY
Thomas Hackett
90 min narrative
$3,000 post-production
THE CANTINERA
Ruth Villatoro
80 min documentary
$7,000 for production
DEAD TO RIGHTS: THE WILLINGHAM CASE
Stephen Mims & Joe Bailey
90 min documentary
$3,000 production
FOUR PLACE SETTING
Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand
14 min experimental
$1,000 post-production & distribution
$1,000 Alpha Cine Labs services
FOURPLAY
Kyle Henry
85 min experimental narrative
$7,000 post-production
THE GLIDERS OF ARCOSANTI
Jaime Cano
28 min narrative
$2,000 production & post-production
THE HAPPY POET
Paul Gordon & David Hartstein
85 min narrative
$2,000 distribution
JORNALEROS
Marcela Moran
30 min documentary
$1,000 production & post-production
JUST BETWEEN US
Karen Skloss
7 min experimental narrative
$1,000 production & post-production
$4,000 Alpha Cine Labs services
MARFA RED
Roberto Minervini
85 min narrative
$7,000 post-production & distribution
MENTIROSO
Wilfred Shipley
10 min narrative
$2,000 production
OCHOA
Elvira Carrizal-Dukes
90 min narrative
$2,000 post-production
PARENTS BEHAVING BADLY AT AN 8TH GRADE BASKETBALL GAME
Scott Meyers
90 min narrative
$4,000 post-production
RED SANDS
Mikey Reyes & Carlos Corral
18 min narrative
$2,000 post-production
RETURN TO SENDER
Susanne Mason
60 min documentary
$7,000 production
SAY HELLO TO MR. GO: AN ELEGY FOR SOUTH LOUISIANA
Don Howard
57 min documentary
$3,000 production
$3,000 Kodak film stock
SEPTEMBER MORNING
Chris Eska
85 min narrative
$7,000 production
SEVEN CHINESE BROTHERS
Bob Byington
90 min narrative
$7,000 production
STITCHED
Jenalia Moreno & Nancy Sarnoff
60 min documentary
$1,500 production
UNTITLED GAY RETIREE DOCUMENTARY
PJ Raval
90 min documentary
$5,000 post-production
UNTITLED ZAYTUNA PROJECT
Maryam Kashani
70 min experimental documentary
$3,000 production
$3,000 Kodak film stock
VIETNAM APPRECIATION DAY
Patrick Xavier Bresnan
90 min documentary
$9,000 post-production
WAR STORIES
Ricardo Ainslie
90 min documentary
$3,000 production & post-production
This article appears in August 27 • 2010.
