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Slackery News Tidbits, December 16, 2009

By Contributors on December 16, 2009 - 9:00am in

It's been over a week since the last edition of Slackery News Tidbits, so it's time to play catch up. 

  • Fantastic Fest favorite Stingray Sam will return to Austin on January 3, 2010. Folks enjoyed this quirky film from Cory McAbee so much that many festival go-ers saw it twice. Check Alamo Drafthouse for screenings.

  • Austinite Kayla Kromer, known for her creative custom beds, like the Hamburger Bed, has gained the attention of Star Wars fans worldwide with her Millenium Falcon bed.  Kayla and her latest bed have now appeared on the official Star Wars Blog.

  • Team Alamo has launched the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) to preserve 35mm prints of exploitation and horror films. This non-profit is so new, the site is only a placeholder, but it does include a paypal link to make tax deductible donations.  Earlier this year, the Alamo Drafthouse helped save nearly 200 Shaw Brothers films that would have been destroyed. 

  • Local production company Twitchy Dolphin Flix is looking for a few good production assistants for their latest film, Snatch 'N Grab. Check out the shortfilmstexas.com website for more details.

  • Rumor has it that Alamo programmer Zack Carlson was seeing onstage during a Don Rickles performance at the Paramount last week, actually dancing with the comedian. It's times like this that we wish for hidden cameras.

  • Austin music icon Stephen Bruton has posthumously received several awards for best music/score along with T-Bone Burnett for the score for Crazy Heart. Awards so far include honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Online Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics. Jeff Bridges was named best actor by L.A. and N.Y. critics for his role as alcoholic country singer Bad Blake.