Quick Snaps: 'Slacker' at Austin Studios

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Slacker at Austin Studios

I meant to do an extended photo essay from the Slacker screening at Austin Studios last month, using some of Austin Film Society's excellent photos and some video I shot of Richard Linklater introducing the movie, but you know how time flies and those other cliched phrases we chronic procrastinators use. So I'll just share a few photos instead, and perhaps I can get to the video at a later time.

It was a fun evening (cooler than expected due to that crazy "rain" thing that happened the night before) with a good-sized audience that included many of the filmmakers shooting segments for the Slacker 2011 project. The gentlemen in the above photo are Alamo Drafthouse programmer Daniel Metz, who shot one of the Slacker 2011 shorts (Elizabeth's interview) and filmmaker/Austin Film Society staffer Bryan Poyser, who has been producing Slacker 2011. They introduced the Slacker 2011 trailer, which screened before the original movie. More photos after the jump.

First, a few Austin filmmakers: David Hartstein (The Happy Poet producer, Along Came Kinky), Geoff Marslett (Mars),and Sam Wainwright Douglas (Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio). Hartstein produced Douglas's Slacker 2011 short; Marslett directed one short and I believe he appears in a second one.

Slacker at Austin Studios

Here's AFS Executive Director Rebecca Campbell with AFS Director of Marketing Agnes Varnum, enjoying the surprisingly cool evening:

Slacker at Austin Studios

And another shot of some filmmakers, just as it started to get dark: Clay Liford (Wuss), who says he's worked on three of the Slacker 2011 segments; plus Hartstein, Metz and Poyser.

Slacker screening

If you want to see more photos from the event, you can view my entire Flickr set. In addition, Austin Film Society has a large set of excellent photos on their Facebook page. Keep an eye out as we publish more interviews with the many Slacker 2011 filmmakers.