Contributors
Jenn Brown - Associate Editor
- Website: Musings of a Film- and Info- Geek
- Twitter: @Jenn_Brown
I knew I could no longer deny my film addiction when a friend challenged me to track the films I saw in a year, and final tally was triple digits. In theaters. Genres mean less to me than good stories and story telling, and I lean heavily towards independent films. I'm thankful to like in Austin, where I have a lot of kindred spirits, and a community that both celebrates and supports film. I've been writing about film for years, and I'm honored that I can contribute to Slackerwood. Now if I can just finish that screenplay...
Jette Kernion - Editor
- Twitter: @jettek
I'm a freelance writer who also happens to love movies. I feel very lucky to live in Austin, where you can see a free movie at a venue every day if you want, and which offers such a wonderful range of movie screenings and events. So I decided to share the news about Austin film by founding Slackerwood. I'm a contributing editor for Cinematical and work on a variety of other writing and editing projects.
Elizabeth Stoddard
- Website: http://elizs.tumblr.com/
- Twitter: @elizs
Longtime resident of Austin, classic film addict, fan of the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, News editor for Austinist.
Debbie Cerda
- Contact: debbie [at] slackerwood [dot] com
- Website: A Geek of Small Consequence
- Twitter: @snax
I studied journalism at Texas A & M University, where I volunteered as a deejay and Program Coordinator for KANM Radio. My favorite class was the "History of Film", where I learned an appreciation for Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, and other master filmmakers.
As an active member of the now defunct Austin Cinemaker Co-op, I participated in the "Make a Film in a Weekend (MAFIA") and "Splice of Life" filmmaking events. As a result, I collect Super 8 cameras and film.
I've spent a lot of time volunteering at movie premieres in Austin for South by Southwest Special Venues Crew, and enjoy being on the red carpet side of things now. Here's hoping my photojournalism class from Texas A & M stuck with me!
My favorite genre is science fiction, having grown up watching "Them" and "Forbidden Planet" every time it was on TV. First movie I recall seeing in a movie theater as a child was a Sergio Leone flick with Clint Eastwood.
My general blog is A Geek of Small Consequence and I also write beer articles as the Austin Craft Beer Examiner.
Don Clinchy
- Contact: dclinchy [at] austin [dot] rr [dot] com
After nearly 19 years in a film-oriented town like Austin, I've become quite the film nerd, seeing about 60 films a year in theaters and many more on DVD. I prefer low-budget, quirky, character-driven indie films (if a film can change one's life, Slacker changed mine). But I'll watch almost any high-quality film no matter the genre. (Note: A chick flick must be extraordinarily well reviewed, profoundly original, and boldly artistic before I'll watch it. The opposite is true for exploitation films, which I'll watch no matter how awful they are, because that's the point. I'm a film nerd -- not a film snob.)
I have a journalism degree from Trinity University and a longtime day job as a technical writer at National Instruments. I've also written op/ed articles for the Austin American-Statesman, published two essays in Writing Austin's Lives and -- like most any good technical writer -- am the author of two inexplicably unpublished novels.
When not being a film nerd, I'm a political rabble-rouser, Facebook junkie and Texana nerd who collects Texas-related books and films.
Chip Rosenthal
- Contact: chip [at] unicom [dot] com
- Website: It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here
- Twitter: @chipr
Chip Rosenthal provides technical support to the Slackerwood crew. You can follow his adventures in open source, community technology, and Texas living on his weblog.