Slackery News Tidbits, February 16
By Jette Kernion on February 16, 2010 - 3:00pm
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Here's the latest Austin-related film news:
- The SXSW Film schedule for 2010 is now available. Get ready to try to cram as many films and events into eight days as you can. We are putting the final touches on our annual SXSW Film Festival Venue Guide as well as some other guides, so keep an eye out.
- Speaking of local film festivals, Cine Las Americas has just unveiled their poster for the 2010 fest, which takes place from April 21-29 this year.
- Busy tonight? I'm planning to head over to the Harry Ransom Center around 7 pm, myself. Steve Wilson, the Associate Curator of Film, will lead a free tour of the HRC's current "Making Movies" exhibit. The HRC has all kinds of movie-related goodies archived, and while I don't know exactly what they're displaying now, it's all good.
- By the way, if you aren't following the HRC's Twitter feed @ransomcenter right now, you're missing daily links to various online movie-related artifacts, like memos from David O. Selznick about Rebecca and audio recordings of Gloria Swanson.
- And because we follow News 8 Austin reporter Victor Diaz's Twitter feed, we know that the film Broke Sky, which played SXSW 2007, will be available via IFC On Demand starting Feb. 24. The noir-themed film about two Texas guys who collect roadkill until they find something unusual by the roadside was shot in Waco and the cast includes a number of Texans, including Austin actress Barbara Chisholm.
- Also going on tonight: The Statesman reports that the San Marcos city council will decide whether to offer incentives for the renovation of an empty big-box store into a franchise Alamo Drafthouse location.