Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In

Shock, schlock, and awe at America's premier genre fest

"...the whole shebang, cooked up by League, Harry Knowles, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, and Tim McCanlies, seemingly on a dare, went..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Home Field Advantage

Sure, Austin can become a sustainable center for TV production. Just ask the Friday Night Lights gridiron gang.

"...Lights is really the little engine that could," says Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, the Central Texas representative for the Texas Motion..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Welcome to Austin, Soundcheck

Council approves sound company sublease at Austin Studios

"...people who wanted to discuss it. The opponents, including Paul Alvarado Dykstra (of the abortive Villa Muse project and..."

Aug. 27, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...support as well as festival co-founders Tim McCanlies and Paul Alvarado-Dykstra. Fantastic Fest is sponsored in part by G4,..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Film News

Local singer-songwriter Jesse Dayton tries on a new role as a psychobilly vampire in Rob Zombie's Halloween II; plus news on Gary Kent, the TXMPA, and Turk Pipkin

"...Jeanette Scott, and Rick Olmos join central region rep Paul Alvarado-Dykstra on the board, and central region alternate Shelly..."

July 3, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Austin Studios lands a long-term tenant; Robert Rodriguez talks about a live-action The Jetsons; and more

"...Shores, and, yes, they will have snow cones... Producer Paul Jensen and writer/director Robbie Pickering's "Natural Selection" is a..."

June 19, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Fantastic Fest: The Good, the Bad, and the Nacho

Fantastic Fest

"...a mere four years since Harry Knowles, Tim McCanlies, Paul Alvarado Dykstra, and Alamo Drafthouse founder/overlord Tim League dared..."

Sept. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Villa Muse After Villa Muse

The uncertain future of the Eastern Travis County tract

"...it for us," said vice president of strategic development Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, (that someone being Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff,..."

May 27, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Developing Stories

If You Believe in Villa Muse, Clap Your Hands

"...but keep it within the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction. But Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, a local film producer serving as the project's..."

March 14, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Film News

We're No. 1! We're No. 1!

"...to move quickly but hasn't set a deadline, says Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, the project's vice president of strategic development. "The..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News Top 10 of 2006

The top Texas stories of 2006

"...Copeland, former head of the Texas Film Commission, and Paul Alvarado-Dykstra on its team...."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Unbelievably Incredible

Fantastic Fest II is for real

"...Tim and Karrie League, as well as co-executive producers Paul Alvarado Dykstra and Tim McCanlies...."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film News

It's Texas vs. Arizona in the 'Friday Night Lights' Bowl, but we might have a secret weapon: the new TXMPA

"...the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown. Also, best wishes to filmmaker Paul Alvarado-Dykstra and wife, Allison, who recently welcomed a baby..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon

"...concern always was 'Can you survive the bad days?'" Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, aka former Robogeek of Harry Knowles' Ain't It..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

It's Alive!

The founders on Fantastic Fest I

"...McCanlies, Dentler, and producer/filmmaker Paul Alvarado-Dykstra officially joined forces a mere four months back,..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Festival Express

Summer's almost gone, which – with apologies to South by Southwest and Cine Las Americas – means Austin's film-festival season is about to get going

"...Fantastic Fest: Ain't It Cool News' Robogeek, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, heads up this first annual three-day ode to..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Film News

The pair behind 'Dear Pillow' is at it again; plus, IFP issues, Cannes kudos, and Digital Light Processing lightsabers

"...of its remaining chapters in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Seattle, Santa Fe, and Austin. But the rub for..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film Reviews

"...frowns to turn upside-down in their own unique ways. Paul Alvarado-Dykstra rides the Austin economy bust with his dreamlike..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

SXSW Film 05 Awards

The Best of the Fest

"...TEXAS SHORTS"TERMINATION"D: Paul Alvarado-Dykstra..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature

Crew Stories

'People will ask me if I'm a production assistant or an assistant director,' Glen Moorman says, 'and I always tell them, if you have a $50,000 budget, I'm your first assistant director, and, if you have a $50 million budget, I'm the last production assistant hired.'

"...feature McCartney's Genes and on fellow Secondhand Lions alum Paul Alvarado-Dykstra's short "Termination."..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

New Line has no doubt about Tim McCanlies' Secondhand Lions, and Guillermo Del Toro wraps up Hellboy in Prague.

"...apparently very happy with it," says Montgolfier Heavy Industries' Paul Alvarado-Dykstra. The movie in question is Tim McCanlies' Secondhand..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Dope Floats, AFS revamps its publication, and the Alamo Drafthouse keeps on getting cooler and cooler.

"...the place to do it. New Editor at Large Paul Alvarado-Dykstra and design guru Marc English have knocked this..."

July 18, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Go on and take it: Renée Zellweger to star in and produce Piece of My Heart, the long-awaited Janis Joplin biopic.

"...Tim McCanlies' Secondhand Lions is up online at www.secondhandlions.com. Paul Alvarado-Dykstra of Montgolfier Heavy Industries (www.montgolfier.net) says McCanlies is..."

June 27, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Articulations

News of the death of longtime Austin actress Judi Sklar Becker and the birth of a new era at Hyde Park Theatre, with Ken Webster as Producing Artistic Director, Subterranean Theatre Company as producing company in residence, and Austin Script Works as a producing partner for FronteraFest.

"...Board member Paul Alvarado-Dykstra released more good news this week regarding Frontera's..."

June 22, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Frontera names Subterranean Theatre Company the new producing company in residence at Hyde Park Theatre.

"...least about the theatre on West 43rd. Board member Paul Alvarado-Dykstra has released the news that Frontera is naming..."

May 25, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Boone to Austin Theatre

In 10 years of leading Frontera productions, Vicky Boone has touched many lives and changed the community.

"...heart and soul of the company," as board member Paul Alvarado-Dykstra put it. Frontera, according to company member Daniel..."

May 4, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

An era ends: After 10 years, Vicky Boone resigns as artistic director of Frontera Productions.

"...grace and poise and strength," according to board member Paul Alvarado-Dykstra. What the move will mean for the future..."

April 27, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

"...the event -- was nowhere in sight. According to Paul Alvarado-Dykstra at Aint-It-Cool-News, Knowles was approached by AFF "a..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Wilde Life

"...different, random piece of the huge puzzle Wilde remains. Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, marketing consultant for the Lyric Opera, stresses the..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Articulations

Getting Seen

"...here and, at the urging of Paramount Marketing Director Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, came to see for himself what the Frontera..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires