Contributors
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.
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 also work on a variety of other writing and editing projects.
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.
Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Contact: jgasspoore [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Twitter: @nerdosaurus
I am an English, mass communication junior at Texas State University- San Marcos. I recently completed an internship with the Austin Film Society, which renewed my interest in screenplay writing and sparked a new interest in marketing for non-profit organizations.
If I'm not writing for my campus newspaper, The University Star, or sitting outside of my favorite local coffee shop drinking an iced toddy, you can catch me watching episodes of my favorite television series, "Battlestar Galactica", online.
Jenn Brown
- Contact: film [at] jenn-brown [dot] com
- Website: Musings of a Film and Info Geek
- Twitter: @JennBrownFilm
Jenn is a member of the Austin Film Critic Association (AFCA), and has served as a submission reviewer for CLAIFF and Juror for aGLIFF’s first year of juried competition.
As veteran of the local film festival scene, her coverage includes SXSW, Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF), Fantastic Fest, Austin Film Festival and the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (aGLIFF) including previews, attendance guides, reviews, daily dispatches, and more. Non-festival features include a weekly “Movies this Week” column, reviews, and seasonal cheap/free film guides.
Jenn can trace her film critic roots back to being the only movie reviewer at her college paper back in the 1980s. With the cineastic philosophy that a good film transcends labels, and a penchant for independent and genre films, Jenn was blogging about film for several years for her own amusement and the edification of her friends. When she was offered an opportunity to join Slackerwood for SXSW 2009 coverage, she hasn’t looked back.
When not writing, talking, or viewing films, Jenn daylights as a technical writer/training manager. Now if she can just finish that screenplay or that book...
Don Clinchy
- Contact: dclinchy [at] austin [dot] rr [dot] com
After 20 years in a film-oriented town like Austin, I've become quite the film nerd, seeing about 100 films a year in theaters and 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.
Mike Saulters
- Contact: neploxo [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Twitter: @MikeSaulters
Herding programmers by day and slinging words by night, I came to Austin twenty years ago hoping to make movies. After the requisite 7 years to complete a CS degree at UT, I found I was perfectly happy watching and writing about them while working separately in a field that's much more suited to keeping bills paid. I have contributed scores of reviews for Ain't It Cool News writing under the nom-de-clavier Augustus Gloop, mostly festival coverage for AFF, SXSW and Fantastic Fest.
