For their 9th annual edition, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival will be assaulting the south from its Goat Farm Arts Center screening center on Sep. 13-16 with four days and nights of independent feature films, shorts and documentaries.
Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.
This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.
The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.
Some of the feature films screening include Lisa Duva’s multi-dimensional Cat Scratch Fever, Jason Lapeyre’s thriller Cold Blooded and Brady Hall’s hilariously named Hello, My Name Is Dick Licker.
This year’s Auff is also packed to the gills with short films with multiple blocks of shorts screening per day. Some of the special ones to look out for are Neil Ira Needleman‘s A Few Words in Favor of God, Jim Haverkamp‘s When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl and Mike Salva‘s award-winning animated short Pound Dogs.
The full film lineup is below, but please visit the official Atlanta Underground Film Festival website for more details and to buy advance tickets.
- 9/11/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Here's the latest Austin film news.
Austin Film Critics Association has just announced its 2011 awards. Martin Scorsese's movie Hugo was chosen for Best Picture; the gritty film Drive also won several awards. Take Shelter, written and directed by Austin filmmaker Jeff Nichols, won not only Best Austin Film but also a Best Actor award for Michael Shannon. This year's list of 25 movies selected to be added to the National Film Registry includes one with Austin ties: Robert Rodriguez's 1992 indie flick El Mariachi.Independent video rental and music store Encore Records, Video & Apparel, located at 1745 West Anderson Lane, is closing after more than 23 years of business in Austin. Encore President Chuck Lokey announced a final store clearance is in effect. Ut alumni take a walk down Holiday Road: The comic anthology film Holiday Road will be screened in the narrative special screenings division at next month's 2012 Slamdance Film Festival.
Austin Film Critics Association has just announced its 2011 awards. Martin Scorsese's movie Hugo was chosen for Best Picture; the gritty film Drive also won several awards. Take Shelter, written and directed by Austin filmmaker Jeff Nichols, won not only Best Austin Film but also a Best Actor award for Michael Shannon. This year's list of 25 movies selected to be added to the National Film Registry includes one with Austin ties: Robert Rodriguez's 1992 indie flick El Mariachi.Independent video rental and music store Encore Records, Video & Apparel, located at 1745 West Anderson Lane, is closing after more than 23 years of business in Austin. Encore President Chuck Lokey announced a final store clearance is in effect. Ut alumni take a walk down Holiday Road: The comic anthology film Holiday Road will be screened in the narrative special screenings division at next month's 2012 Slamdance Film Festival.
- 12/28/2011
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
The Slamdance Film Festival announced a long list of special screenings and short films that will play at its 2012 edition. Included in the mix is Jonathan Demme's "Neil Young Journeys," a portrait of the rock star at his 2011 summer solo shows in Toronto. The festival will also screen a never-before-seen TV pilot from Ed Wood as part of their program. The Slamdance Film Festival will run from January 20-26 in Park City, Utah. The complete list of films announced today is below. For the competition slate for this year's Slamdance, check out the earlier announced list. Special Screenings – Narrative: Holiday Road – Directors/Screenwriters: Todd Berger, Bill Palmer, Bobby Miller, Daron Nefcy,Benny Grinnell, Ian Eastin, Marcy McIlwain, Aaron Arendt, Michael Suter, Dee Robertson, DougManley, Helena Wei, Andrew Putschoegl. (USA) World Premiere A feature length comedic anthology celebrating the hilarious,...
- 12/21/2011
- Indiewire
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