Screen Door Film's Texas Cinema Series Moves to UT

If you haven't heard about Screen Door Film, you've been missing out. This organization has been giving Austin audiences a chance to see lesser-known shorts and features, especially locally made films, for several years. They've partnered with St. Edward's University in the past on screenings and discussions about Texas films.

Screen Door Films has just announced its 2010 Texas Cinema Series, and this time, they're teaming up with the Documentary Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The first two screenings are in February:

• Along Came Kinky ... Texas Jewboy for Governor on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 7 pm. This documentary about Kinky Friedman played SXSW 2009. Read my interview from last March with director David Hartstein. That's Hartstein in the above photo with Friedman at the SXSW Q&A.
• The Eyes of Me on Wednesday Feb. 24 at 7 pm. Keith Maitland directed this documentary about the Texas School for the Blind, which played previously in Austin last year during SXSW and the Cinema Disability Touching Festival. Read Debbie Cerda's review.

The events will take place in Studio 4D of the CMB building on the UT campus -- the grayish building at the corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keaton where Austin City Limits is filmed. Screenings are followed by a panel discussion that includes the filmmakers. Best of all, admission is free.