Qmmunity: Nostalgic for Queer Days Past

"...a gay YA novel, that was circulating in the student body ... courtesy of yours truly. Nobody ratted me..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Recommendations for Cine Las Americas' Free Streaming Weekends

What to watch in the fest

"...Tua (Re)Volta D: Eliza Capai, Brazil, 2019+. Inside the student resistance to the rising tide of fascism leading to..."

July 17, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...them and then returned them into the hands of students. "Call Center Blues" D: Geeta Gandbhir. "Call Center Blues:..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Announces Short Film Grant Recipients

Society breaks $2 million in assistance to filmmakers

"...since the program's formation in 1996 as the Texas Filmmakers Production fund to over $2 million. Previous recipients have..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Richard Linklater Constructs a Frustrated Architect in Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett's character is the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright, but no less complicated

"...and building funky little things") but he's also a student of the discipline. A couple of years ago, he..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

House of Hummingbird Explores the Adolescence of a Woman and a Nation

South Korean drama screens at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

"...started having a recurring dream. "I was a graduate student, but I had to go to middle school for..."

June 14, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Terrence McNally on Art and Commerce

The Tony-winning playwright talks about the business of show

"...recalling what it was like to be a college student soaking up the arts in New York City in..."

June 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Few Faves From the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Immortal gems of the cinema help us define a classic

"...(Tina Majorino) and Napoleon's best friend – and soon-to-be student body president – Pedro (Efren Ramirez), who I can..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

À Bientôt, Agnès Varda

Looking back on the Belgian-French cinema great, who died today

"...background. In the late Seventies I was a graduate student here in Austin at the University of Texas, working..."

March 29, 2019 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

John Lee Hancock Heads to the Texas Film Hall of Fame

A writer, a director, and a writer/director

"...and Evil, he's undoubtedly become one of Hollywood's go-to filmmakers for real-life drama. However, Hancock insists that was never..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Capital City Black Film Festival Mounts The Last Defense

Viola Davis-produced documentary series added to fest

"...episodes concentrating on Julius Jones, a 21-year-old African-American college student sentenced to death for murder. The show follows the..."

Aug. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fear the Walking Dead Hits Big After Move to Austin

Plus more local production updates

"...it one of Austin's most regular shooting locations for filmmakers, and intergenerational indie drama One Hand Clapping is the..."

April 27, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: American Animals

A docudrama as audacious as the heist it re-creates

"...So imagine you're a student at a prestigious university, and you and some friends..."

March 19, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Queer Guide to SXSW

Keeping things kweer in 2018

"...of the anti-gun violence movement #CocksNotGlocks created by UT student Jessica Jin. Extra bonus? Former GP intern (and all-around..."

March 2, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Bomb City Retells the Tensions Behind the Killing of a Texas Punk

Brian Deneke’s life and death story comes to local screens

"...Festival in February of last year, the film and filmmakers returned to Amarillo on Jan. 23 for its first..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...and music videos (including two blocks just for Texas filmmakers), but there's also a massive new emphasis on VR..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...tell, but how they tell it. No other genre filmmakers working today bust conventions so readily or with such..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

With a History Like That …

The Austin Polish Film Festival delves into the country's complicated past

"...a 2013 doc about Holland's time as a film student and later as a political dissident in Prague: Return of..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

AFF Interview: Here We Are

Director David Bellarosa on Austin as the velvet coffin

"...for anyone who struggled getting by in a boomtown: student debt, career rejection, selling blood and sperm, doing "foot..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New French Cinema Week

Austin Film Society series restores a bit of hope for humanity

"...curates a handful of new French films to Austin (filmmakers included) to celebrate stories and cultivate global connectedness in..."

April 21, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Eye Wide Open on Lance Letscher

With two major solo shows and a new documentary about him, the Austin collage artist readies to be seen in a new way

"...of his life, including a tenure as a graduate student at the University of Texas in the Eighties. After..."

March 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...other people that I've worked with who are really filmmakers, it's all I want to do. If you're in..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...off it, but until there's more economic justice for filmmakers, at least their work is getting out there...."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Labors of Love (and Money)

Film production services melting pot Arts+Labor eyes a commercial expansion

"...who of local Austin celebrities – musicians, business owners, filmmakers, and resident weirdos. McKay hadn't brought a script to..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

aGLIFF Announces Lineup

Austin's favorite LGBTQ fest drops next month

"...in a press release, “We’ll have over 35 visiting filmmakers and screen over 70 films this season. Many films..."

July 28, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Bad Education

The Tribe offers up a spellbinding look inside a Ukrainian school for the deaf

"...we have film festivals, to usher fringe or first-time filmmakers into the limelight, or at least the darkness of..."

July 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVD Extra: Revenge Double Feature

Kurando Mitsutake on bringing Japanese action to the U.S.

"...them inside dead bodies. Of course, as a film student, I couldn't materialize the story well enough, or afford..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Eye: Tales From the Aging Box

Two actresses opine on when the only opportunity left is to play a mother. (Or a grandmother.)

"...Williams describes one table reading for a student film about a low-income woman fostering a group of..."

March 13, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry

Humans Being Human

Bad behavior in Ruben Östlund's observational kinda-comedies

"...human behavior. That many viewers didn't get that the filmmakers were having a laugh – "You could always give..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Where Does It Hurt?

With The Inside Story, Scott Rice gets people talking about mental health

"...performers facing stage fright, artists dealing with depression, or students facing down finals by self-medicating and consequences be damned,..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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