Filmmaker Keith Maitland on Tackling Tower

Innovative doc animates the UT Tower Massacre

"...was a tragedy that Aus­tin kept to itself. Now Keith Maitland's documentary Tower is retelling that impossible heartbreak before..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Who Did the Animation for Keith Maitland’s Documentary Tower?

Minnow Mountain’s Craig Staggs talks art & drama & Austin & Earp

"...Staggs had to say about his team’s work on Keith Maitland’s Tower, and how that Earp is going, and..."

March 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tower

Austin-made doc re-creates the UT Tower massacre with stunningly powerful immediacy

"...Directed by: Keith Maitland. Starring: Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dear Mr. Brody

Money can’t buy happiness in Keith Maitland’s documentary

"...Directed by: Keith Maitland...."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Austin Film Critics Association Award Winners

The AFCA laud acclaimed drama and local filmmaker Keith Maitland

"..."Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award for its director Keith Maitland, the group's exclusive Austin Film Award, and an..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dear Mr. Brody Documents an Eccentric, Forgotten American Story

Director Keith Maitland follows $25 million given away

"...luckily, to be honest with you," confessed Austin-based director Keith Maitland. Maitland's wife/producing partner Sarah Wilson learned about Brody..."

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Trace Sauveur

Tower Lands on Oscars Doc Shortlist

15 advance, including local film about the UT shootings

"...When Austin filmmaker Keith Maitland’s Tower had its world premiere in March at..."

Dec. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Announces Audience Awards

The people have spoken

"...Local filmmaker Keith Maitland is a popular guy with both juries and..."

March 19, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Tower'

New documentary will focus on the 1966 UT Tower shooting

"...he was finally gunned down. Fifty years later, filmmaker Keith Maitland seeks to retell those terrible events..."

April 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: Tower

Keith Maitland's shocking, touching history of the UT shootings

"...memory. But award-winning 2016 documentary Tower by Austin director Keith Maitland restores their legacies, and their humanity...."

Aug. 1, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mass Shootings and Musical History

Tower and A Song for You explore different sides of Austin

"...In 2006, filmmaker Keith Maitland conceived of a project about the University of..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

SXSW Film Review: Dear Mr. Brody

A tragic story of good intentions and desperate need

"...It’s easy to see why filmmaker Keith Maitland, following up his award-winning doc Tower, was drawn..."

March 17, 2021 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...year offer up some familiar faces, with Tower director Keith Maitland getting $10 grand to help fund his doc..."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

A Decade in Austin Films

The city’s cinema, from indie visions to Oscar winners and international blockbusters

"...of the decade's best films. – Marjorie Baumgarten Tower(2016, D: Keith Maitland) An Austin Tragedy, an Austin Healing..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...film from hometown hero Richard Linklater, Everybody Wants Some, Keith Maitland has two films making their world premiere. TOWER..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...- filmmakers have a hometown presence. Dear Mr. Brody, Keith Maitland's follow-up to his SXSW 2015 award-sweeping Tower, makes..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

Independent Lens airs The Eyes of Me, a documentary look at four students enrolled at the Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired

"...Filmmaker Keith Maitland, a University of Texas alum, has selected four..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Page Two: Telling Stories, Watching Movies

The real and the known, the unreal and then some

"...145 films that were submitted for consideration, includes … Keith Maitland's Tower, which uses animation to recount the 1966..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Reeling in the Hill Country

Escape from the city with the Hill Country Film Festival

"...SXSW this year, including two feature documentaries from director Keith Maitland. His film Tower, which uses animation, archival footage,..."

April 29, 2016 Screens Feature by Tucker Whatley

The Lights Are On at AFS Cinema

After 16 months of closure, the arthouse indie cinema reopens this weekend

"...There will be new releases such as Tower director Keith Maitland's Dear Mr. Brody, and Without Getting Killed or..."

July 16, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Fathom

Austin filmmakers travel to where the whales sing

"...(having worked on Tower and Dear Mr. Brody with Keith Maitland, as well as Where Soldiers Come From) this..."

June 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Documentary Shows the Beauty of the Border, and the Perils of a Barrier

The River and the Wall captures a wilderness without divisions

"...and, she added, Tower was mostly shot in director Keith Maitland's backyard, "so this was a whole new ballgame..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

ATX Film News

Emmys, gen:LOCK cast, plus a good omen for film incentives

"...took the prize for Outstanding Historical Documentary. Tower director/producer Keith Maitland compared the film's events to the seemingly never-ending..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Announces 2018 Grant Winners

Recipients show strength and diversity of Texas filmmakers

"...Zellner Bros., (Kid-Thing), Augustine Frizzell (Never Goin’ Back), and Keith Maitland (Tower). The program is supported by Amazon Studios,..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...Keith Maitland's rotoscoped doc about the victims of Charles Whitman's..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Books on Film

Tower director on punk and Capote

"...Keith Maitland..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

SXSW 2016 Film Awards

"...Documentary Feature Competition Grand Jury Winner: Tower (D: Keith Maitland) Special Jury Recognition for Portrait Documentary: Accidental Courtesy:..."

March 18, 2016 Screens Feature

Film News

Local intrigue abounds; plus, SXSW 07 is ready for your best shot(s)

"...messenger accepts tips (hint, hint). Indies Alive and Well Keith Maitland's documentary Keep Your Ear on the Ball has..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Totally Total Providence

Animator Paul Beck presents A Scanner Darkly at Alamo Drafthouse Mueller

"...documentaries The Eyes of Me and Tower for director Keith Maitland; or crafting a short film for Al Gore...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

SXSW Film Review: Tower

Keith Maitland's film focuses on the survivors of the UT massacre

"...Keith Maitland's stirring and heartrending film melds the rotoscoping techniques..."

March 13, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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