Alternative and Independent Video

"...the global IndyMedia network, "IndyMedia's August NewsReal" (30 min.), and the shorts "La Bisagra de la Historia" (14 min.)..."

Sept. 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibition Alternative

Evil of Dracula by Martha Colburn

"...Your weekly media diet" is how filmmaker and exhibitor-auteur Bill Daniel offers up Funhouse Cinema, his wildly..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"

Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.

"...of success. A publishing house purchases an author's novel and sells it at your nearest Barnes & Noble. A..."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Good Night and Good Luck

Why is 'podcast' 'Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year?

"...everybody has figured out what podcasting – or blog-casting and audio-blogging to Apple-resistant types – is good for, or..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Down and Dirty

Pasty people vs. pretty people, low budget vs. big budget, Peter Biskind vs. Robert Redford: the 20th annual Sundance!

"...Kutcher. Ditto DMZ, Al Gore, Ray Romano, Patty Hearst, and Michael Jackson. Surely, the thing these A-list celebrities all..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Access: ACAC Then and Now

"...An independent producer at Austin Community Access Center since 1981, Kirk..."

July 14, 2000 News Feature by Sarah Hepola

COP25: Housing Rights and Climate Change

Where two crises – climate and housing – meet: "Catastrophe."

"...In this latest video, Julieta Perucca, Senior Assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur..."

Dec. 5, 2019 News Post

COP25: Faith and the Climate

VIDEO: What faith leaders are doing to advocate for change

"...In this latest video, Rev. Susan Hendershot (Interfaith Power and Light), John Hill..."

Dec. 4, 2019 News Post

COP25: When It Comes to Climate Change, What Does "Loss and Damage" Mean?

VIDEO: Texas Impact unveils Climate Policy 101

"...In this second video, social & climate justice advocate Sadie DeCoste and Harjeet..."

Dec. 3, 2019 News Post

Survival, and Hope in How Austin Handles Sexual Assault

As their legal battle continues, women look forward to political change

"...the plaintiffs – women who claim they were raped and subsequently abused by the system meant to protect them..."

Oct. 23, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Wednesday Picks and Sleepers

"...its own right. Taking cues from early Santana, War, and the Meters, Brownout's 2012 release Oozy secretes stickier than..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...south weird when Salemi, Sicily, buys out your favorite independent video-rental store. Which is exactly what happened last week..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Blockbusted

One-time scourge of mom and pop video stores goes under

"...film fans: Blockbuster, for decades the bane of the independent video store, is going out of business...."

Nov. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How People More Important Than You Are Voting

McCracken, Leffingwell list prominent prog, small biz supporters

"...went into overtime this week, with both Lee Leffingwell and Brewster McCracken presenting lists of our betters as their..."

April 8, 2009 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages

New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection

"...When it comes to the issue of obsessive collecting, and its resulting culture of snobbery and one-upmanship, there's a..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

High Road Construction Ahead

Thomas Pallotta and Delta-9

"...High Road director and Delta-9 main man Tommy Pallottaphotograph by Minh Carrico..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Great Expectations

Assessing Austin's Class of '96

"...Success and failure will always be subjective terms, but when it..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Won't Get Schooled Again

Austin's Music Class of '98

"...It's detention for Kelly Willis, Charlie Robison (standing) and Bruce Robison photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Few..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

The Future of Film on the Web

Part I: The means

"...No matter what your interest, you could log on and find something to fit your tastes. And go as..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Shortcuts

"...over the next few days -- watching lots of independent films, to be sure. The SXSW Film Festival and..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Column

His Films, His Way

Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It

"...West Mall publicizing their festival. A guy, a student, and obviously interested in film, sidles off-course and strikes up..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Tentatively Titled

Austin's Class of 1997

"...Their albums are still mostly "as yet untitled" and their futures are simply "yet to be determined," but..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Meme Weaver

Local distributor Indie Meme brings independent film from India to the U.S.

"...Real life is a privilege afforded to the educated and elite. By "real life," we mean the everyday struggles..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Matthew Irwin

Naked City

"...Garcia, D-Corpus Christi. Pictured are Garcia (r), wife Denise, and presidential candidate Barack Obama (l). Headlines..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature

Short Cuts

"...spell that allowed everyone to travel about visiting friends and family, spend time in movie theatres catching up on..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Encounters of the in*situ Kind

Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine

"...Experimental films and videos often elude the uninitiated. One is unlikely to..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Screens Feature

Page Two: Inner Sanctums, Outer Orbits

The intertwined legacies of indie music and the alternative press

"...column is the next-to-last section of an essay about alternative newsweeklies, originally planned to be published in three parts..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Column by Louis Black

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...the social justice movement in Latin America share an understanding that there's always a bullet out there with our..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

The Kid's Got Moxie!

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

"...the Century. Of all the trailers you've sat through and the holiday movie ads you've seen, this offbeat black-and-white..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Neighborhood Watch

"...gets her documentary ideas from "living in a place and talking with the people." The two films she'll screen..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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