Slackery News Tidbits, January 21

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Here's the Austin film-related news for today:

  • Sundance starts tonight, and as we've mentioned before, Austin is well represented this year. Filmmaker Bryan Poyser has been getting ready for his Lovers of Hate premiere with a poster (tagline is catchy, but I'm not sure I like it) and a very cool little comic/booklet with illustrations of the filmmakers and cast. 
  • Another Austin-related addition to Sundance this year: Mr. Okra, a doc about a New Orleans produce vendor, which won the Austin Film Festival's audience award for a short documentary in 2009. NOLA.com has a profile of filmmaker T.G. Herrington and his title subject.
  • Still more on Austin at Sundance: some KUT interviews; an article about Thompson, a short that played SXSW last year before heading to Park City this week; and an Austin American-Statesman profile of the Zellner brothers, who are taking Fiddlestixx to the fest.
  • The Austin branch of The Onion's A.V. Club has published an excellent guide to repertory cinema in Austin, from Austin Cinematheque to Feral Cinema.
  • A quick reminder that you have until next Friday, Jan. 29, to submit your films to Cine Las Americas for the 2010 festival, which takes place April 21-29 this year.
  • If you were watching the Golden Globes this weekend and wondered when Austin would get the Foreign-Language Award winner, Michael Haneke's film The White Ribbon, we've received word that it is scheduled to open here on February 19.
  • True Grit, the Coen brothers movie that will be shooting in Central Texas soon, has been given a release date of Christmas Day 2010.
  • Finally, I had heard that a documentary had been made about the Wall of Welcome mosaic in Crestview/Brentwood, but I haven't had the chance to see it. Turns out that the movie, A Community Mosaic, won filmmakers Susan and Rob Burneson an award from the Texas Oral History Association. If anyone knows how we can see this documentary, please let me know.