How UT’s Tom Schatz Shaped Austin’s Film Scene

Austin’s film community looks back at the 45-year legacy of a guiding force at UT RTF

"...year. Austin will soon be buzzing like normal again. But for the first time in 45 years, one person..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

Michener Center Director Named

Author Bret Anthony Johnston to head UT center for writers

"...In securing a new director for the Michener Center for Writers, the University of Texas has turned to..."

July 12, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Documentary Craft

Hector Galán: The Texas Documentary Tour

"...may not yet fall under the "Elder Statesman of Documentary Filmmaking" heading, but he's on the verge. Since 1972,..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Camp Shakespeare Documentary Says We Will Meet, And There We May Rehearse

PBS film Take Pains. Be Perfect. puts UT's theatre program center stage

"...Enter UT professor James "Doc" Ayres. He believed that Shakespeare could..."

April 8, 2022 Screens Feature by Ellen Daly

'A' Is for Axed: UT Chops Cactus, Cuts Classes

What will the loss of the Cactus Cafe and informal classes mean to the UT community?

"...According to its mission statement, UT-Austin's Texas Union is dedicated to "serve as a unifying..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Documentary Goes Inside the Eclectic World of John Aielli

The spirit of radio lives in Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience

"...like John Aielli. The host of Austin NPR station KUTX’s Eklektikos, he welcomed Austinites to their day for five..."

March 8, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Real Austin Stories

Austin's Exploding Documentary Scene

"...Austin film scene? It bespeaks the terminology of the outsider, a cliché that trivializes the cultural and technical parameters..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Truth Seeker

Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white

"...they are the songbirds, the reflecting pool, the eloquent truth seekers. We are lucky Sebastião Salgado is not dead...."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Closing the Books

A UT editor says he lost his job at the Center for Mexican American Studies for complaining about administrative malfeasance.

"...of Texas' West Mall office building, the home of UT's Center for Mexican American Studies, where for 15 years..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Take 10

The annual 10 Under 10 showcase spotlights collegians with cameras

"...of 10 Under 10, an annual program featuring short documentary and experimental films made by University of Texas students...."

May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Cowboys and Controversy

Kyle Henry and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...by Todd V. Wolfson Austin filmmaker Kyle Henry's hour-long documentary American Cowboy - which screens next Wednesday at the..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Real Deal

The Texas Documentary Tour

"...Stekler photograph by John Anderson Say what you will about Austin-at-large -- one thing the capital city will never..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Filmmaker Keith Maitland on Tackling Tower

Innovative doc animates the UT Tower Massacre

"...and shown to truly heal. For decades, the 1966 UT Tower Shooting was a tragedy that Aus­tin kept to..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'

UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp

"...– loved ones, neighbors, your race – are being ruthlessly, systematically exterminated? What flame of inspiration can be kept..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Girls in the Hood

Girls Like Us: The Texas Documentary Tour

"...she knows how children are made. De'Yona thinks more about singing gospel than meeting boys. Anna's parents forbid her..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Jason Silverman

Roam Sweet Home

Filmmaker Ellen Spiro and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...her place on the shores of Lake Travis, 30 minutes outside of town. "Be here around five o'clock --..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...all in an uproar – pro and con – about the proposed smoking ordinance. For more election info see..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Tackling Texas Truisms

Filmmaker Don Howard and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...photograph byMarlene Hanlin Local documentary filmmaker Don Howard doesn't look like the sort of..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Changes in the Weather

As Burnt Orange cools down, UTFI heats up

"...Poyser and filmmaking partner Jacob Vaughan's alma mater – about the realities of the business behind making a movie...."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Man Who Wasn't There

"...few days into my quest for an interview with documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, I began to feel like a..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Never Adult Moment

Artist Michael Sieben ollies his skater years into the Visual Arts Center's vaulted elegance

"...The University of Texas graduate is the Visual Arts Center's artist-in-residence for spring 2014, and Sieben is featuring, in..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gabriel Mascaro Finds Lyricism in Wind-Blown Corners

Brazil Center and the UT’s Latin American Filmmakers Series

"...filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro will will be the guest of UT’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the LLILAS Brazil..."

Nov. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short and Sweet

The Texas Documentary Tour showcases the work of three MFA students from the University of Texas' Radio-Television-Film Department, whose documentary program faculty member Paul Stekler calls, completely without bias of course, the "best in the country, bar none."

"...The next stop on the Austin Film Society's Texas Documentary Tour is UT's Radio-Television-Film Department, where the short works..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Short “Come & Take It” and the Story Behind #CocksNotGlocks

Documentary about controversial UT protests plays Texas Shorts Competition

"...for how to organize," said Jessica Jin, subject of documentary short "Come & Take It." She added, "And a..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

A City in Fits and Starts

AFS Documentary Tour: Austin Time Tours

"...lived here for so long and know so little about Austin's history? Of course, we're talking about a time..."

June 8, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Reich's Right-Hand Man

AFS Documentary Tour presents Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss

"...a Jew in the court of 18th century Württemberg, about whom a sympathetic novel was written in 1925 and..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Shorts on a Shoestring

The Texas Documentary Tour presents 10 Under 10

"...the fourth annual 10 Under 10, the program of UT student short films produced by documentary filmmaker (Troop 1500)..."

May 6, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Getting to Know You

East Austin Stories celebrates three years of documenting Eastside lives with a free night of movies and music

"...than 70 videos will be available for download at idg.communication.utexas.edu/eas. (DVDs of the films will also be donated to..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Austin Cinema Limits

ACL doc fundraises, UT inherits Ian McLagan's personal collection, and ScoreMore for the kids

"...plaque hangs inside the show's former Studio 6A at UT, but it's one of many priceless tales told in..."

May 13, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Res Publica

This week's civic agenda, Aug. 28-Sept. 4

"...People United (1pm) observes Labor Day with a discussion about sex work as a labor issue, with burlesque dancer..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature

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