Slackery News Tidbits, July 19

Good morning! Get your coffee, here's the latest Austin film news:

• If you haven't bought a film pass yet for Austin Film Festival 2010, this is certainly the month to do it. AFF is running a promotion called Film Pass Frenzy through August 2. Anyone who purchases two AFF film passes is entered into a daily drawing for prize packs. The prizes are awfully nice and include AFF Lone Star Badges, a $150 gift certificate to Uchiko, Fun Fun Fun Fest tickets and a Soul Train CD boxed set. You can always check the AFF Twitter feed before buying your passes to see what the daily prize is. Passes are $42 each right now and for eight nights of movies, that's an unbeatable deal.
• IndieWire caught Austin filmmaker Kyle Henry's latest short film, Fourplay: San Francisco at Outfest in Los Angeles last week -- their article also includes a nice photo of all the filmmakers involved. The Fourplay series will include four short films about transgressive sex acts in four different cities (one is Austin, yes). I look forward to seeing the entire series, but in the meantime, if you have a couple of bucks, you can watch Fourplay: San Francisco yourself right now over at IndiePix Films.
• Speaking of festivals, Lights. Camera. Help. has just announced the lineup for its 2010 fest. The three-day festival runs at the end of this month, from July 29-31, and focuses on documentaries, PSAs, and other short films and videos made by and for nonprofits. I noticed a few Austin nonprofits represented on the schedule, including Capital Area Food Bank, Austin Pets Alive, the Ann Richards School and Livestrong.
• Bad weather forced Alamo's Rolling Roadshow to reschedule this year's "Jaws Floating Roadshow on Lake Travis" events, which sold out so fast it'd make your head spin. New dates have been announced -- July 30-31 and August 1 -- and the previous ticketholders have been accommodated. Any remaining tickets for the July 30 event will go on sale today, July 19, at 4 pm. If you want some, get ready to act quickly.
• KXAN-TV broadcast a good story this weekend (video only) about autism-friendly screenings of new movies in Austin.
• The Reverse Shot Blog has posted video of a recent event that's part of their Eat This Movie series (in NYC, sadly, not here): a discussion with local filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser after a screening of Fast Food Nation, a loose adaptation of Schlosser's book on which they collaborated.
• Finally, as part of an interview with Alison Macor, the Austin author of Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids, the Houston Post has published a fun list of their eight favorite musical moments in Texas-shot films ... complete with video clips whenever possible. Watch, listen and enjoy.