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Austin is hosting the 40th national conference of the Society for Photographic Education, which aims to consider how the United States has been represented by photographers in the past and where photographers need to focus their attention in the future.

Honorable Mention

Austin screenwriting contest Movie Midwifing helps scripts with their first baby steps.

The Waller Creek Tunnel could have been a boon to Downtown; now its just another failed proposal in the City of Ideas.

A decade after SOS, we need to develop a realistic vision and useful political tools to address future development in the Barton Springs watershed.

Crooner Chris Isaak plays himself to charming effect on his self-titled Showtime series.

Girlie Action

The Texas Film Hall of Fame honors the legs that launched a thousand clips -- Texas legend Cyd Charisse, and your Style Avatar is off and running in the SXSW sweepstakes.

With a bold new take on Andre Previn's operatic adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Austin Lyric Opera has a remarkable opportunity to lead the operatic pack and show the world the stuff it's made of.

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

Peter Lev's American Films of the 70s looks at several genres of films (cop movies, disaster films, teen movies, war films, blaxploitation, sci-fi, and feminist films) and puts examples of each genre into the context of the times.

Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.

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