Contrast Film Festival Flick Picks

Our selection of the cross-media event’s boundary-pushing films

"...Flaming Creatures Thu., July 18, 8pm @AFS Cinema With its graphic depictions of sex..."

July 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

Wayne Alan Brenner’s Top 10 Arts-Related Things I Enjoyed in 2018

Representational and digital art, plus theatre rooted in history proved especially mind-blowing this year

"...1) "FIVE SKIN TEN SKIN" (Dimension Gallery) As if Ian..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Transforming the Screen

New film fest emphasizes diversity in women filmmakers

"...organizers hope will become an annual event, will showcase 16 short films and two trailers created by women filmmakers..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Everybody's Talkin' aGLIFF

Austin's favorite LGBTQ fest returns

"...With 30 feature films and 47 shorts, the range of represented perspectives is remarkable, and at..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Adrenaline and Magic

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour soars into the Paramount this weekend

"...awe-inspiring films about adventurers in nature. What began in 1976 as a small Canadian film festival has evolved into..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

The Jumping-Off Point

Kat Candler continues her chronicles of youthful frenzy in 'Hellion'

"...crew. With stories and styles ranging from animation to shorts to features, the Austin film scene will be, as..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Gimme All Your Lovin': Emo's heads East as John Kunz looks back; plus, Whiskey Shivers' single malt success

"...should be before the Butthole Surfers' judgment day, Sept. 11. "We're going to be slagged for being sellouts and..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Reefer Roundup: 7/4/11

Your patriotic drug news roundup

"...Now, if the Congress would only give the bill..."

July 4, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

'Metamorphoses'

Zach's take on Greek myths takes flight with help from Blue Lapis Light aerialists

"...taken the city by storm, nothing in this, Steakley's 19th season, might be more appropriate or more stunning than..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Engaging 'Fourplay'

Before departing for Chicago, Kyle Henry makes a cross-platform debut

"...diverse sexual scenarios – doesn't skimp on visual or narrative pleasures, as that term might imply...."

July 23, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Round-Trip

Filmmakers and filmgoers make the journey from Austin to Marfa, with an ever-expanding footprint

"...and partygoers to bond over five days of avant-garde shorts, desert-hued documentaries, and a few "ready for the big..."

May 14, 2010 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Crafting the Autobiography of Another Man

AFS Documentary Tour: The Windmill Movie

"...thrilled to see his student use such a daring narrative strategy to make this film work. Many of his..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Getting Creative With Constraints

AFS Documentary Tour presents the 10 Under 10 shorts program

"...This year marks the fifth 10 Under 10 program, an annual documentary shorts compilation organized..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Present Beware! The Future Beware!

Austin animator Brad Neely drinks beer, hates British children

"...and "Space Computer" [hijackings of The Karate Kid and 2001: A Space Odyssey] and some of that stuff that..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Don't Everybody Panic, but Online Sketch Troupe Backpack Picnic Has Definitely Gone What They Call 'Viral' and Is Also About to Contaminate the Alamo Drafthouse

Online sketch troupe Backpack Picnic has definitely gone viral

"...its natural, unweaponized form, has a kill rate of 9-in-10 – but we'd suggest keeping this fact firmly in..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

It's a Dog's Life

The Toe Tactic's existential angst and animated canines

"...voice can even be heard in her parents' famed 1973 short, "Cockaboody." "It was our life," she says. "They..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Yvonne Georgina Puig

The Advance's Retreat

Is this the end for Cinematexas?

"...On May 14, Programming Director Ivan Lozano announced on the group's official..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye

A Look Back

"...Dynamic, intriguing, entertaining, edgy, and now 30 – The Territory, the Texas-produced showcase of independent film and..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...every level, not only economic, but morally, politically, socially – the entire society has been shaken by Chavez [the..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

TV Eye

Production companies are mad at work shooting sitcoms and dramas for consideration on the fall TV slate

"...The competition is rough and the slots few. May 16 is when the fall TV schedules are officially announced...."

April 22, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Where does Belinda Acosta come down on the "the whitest black girl on TV"? Find out here.

"...premieres Tuesday. The new season features 29 films, including narrative dramas, comedies, and shorts, as well as documentaries that..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Six (Not So) Easy Pieces

Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.

"...appropriate, as they come from a quintessentially French project: 1965's Six in Paris. It was an innovative and collaborative..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

Short Cuts

SXSW: Quentin bails, Jeremy fluffs.

"...The Legend of Ron Jeremy at this year's SXSW 2001 Film Festival and Conference. A veteran of 1,700 "very..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Immaculate Film

Musicalia at the SXSW Film Festival

"...docs on SXSW 2000 music. Nope. Guess the budding Bu1;uels of the world figured they needed permission for the..."

March 9, 2001 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Real Austin Stories

Austin's Exploding Documentary Scene

"..."AFS brought Paul to Austin in the fall of 1996 to present a preview from Vote for Me; he..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Page Two: Workingman's Blues

The real history of labor and union organizing is ignored and largely unknown

"...provided the framing. Consider how in Walt Disney's animated shorts – and especially features – wild animals are anthropomorphized..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Tradition in Transition

Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...(including Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Portugal): documentaries, features, shorts, comedies, dramas, even musicals, all of them about the..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

South of France by Southwest

In keeping a journal during my five days in Cannes, where my first feature, 'Room,' premiered internationally, it occurred to me that it's the creative energy in Austin that has carried me this far.

"...May 10..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Kyle Henry

The Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Class of '97

"...The TFPF has awarded $403,000 to more than 140 film and video projects helmed by Texans since its..."

May 7, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...Meanwhile, take this as an introduction, a hint as..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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