AFF Teaming Up with Texas Book Festival
I've really enjoyed Austin Film Festival's "Made in Texas" series, in which the fest screens Lone Star-shot films every month, often with the screenwriter or filmmaker in attendance. Now AFF is bringing the series back in 2011 and adding other great programming with help from the Texas Book Festival.
The 2011 Made in Texas series kicks off on Wednesday, Feb. 16 with Hook and one of its screenwriters, James V. Hart. After a 6 pm "Conversations in Film" seminar with Hart at the AT&T Conference Center (on the UT campus), you can cross the street to the Texas Spirit Theater and watch the movie at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available through AFF for the conversation and screening. After the jump, check out a list of the rest of the series offerings scheduled so far.
On March 10, AFF and Texas Book Festival will co-host a special sneak preview of Jane Eyre at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar, with details forthcoming. Director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) has been to AFF twice with short films: Kofi in 2003 and Victoria para chino, which won the Best Student Narrative Short, in 2004. AFF and TBF are also teaming up in July for a free screening of How to Eat Fried Worms, as part of AFF's Made in Texas Family Film Series.
I hope this means we'll see more screenings associated with the actual Texas Book Festival in November, too. In the past, the fest would have one or two movie events related to authors -- I had a fine time hearing Joe Bob Briggs talk about Profoundly Disturbing
One more reminder: AFF is also hosting a special screening of the documentary Sons of Perdition next Wednesday night, Feb. 9, at Alamo Ritz. Get tickets through Alamo unless you're an AFF member, in which case admission is free (although I think you do have to reserve in advance).
Oh, and finally, because AFF has so much going on these days: Have you started working on your submission yet for the 2011 Texas Monthly/AFF "Where I'm From" short film contest? I would love to do this myself ... if only I were from Texas.
2011 AFF/Texas Book Festival Made in Texas Series Schedule:
All films are screened at the Texas Spirit Theater in the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Screenings are on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $5 unless you are a member of the museum or AFF, in which case admission is free. Any "Conversations in Film" that occur before the screenings are usually ticketed separately.
Feb. 16: Hook (Conversations in Film with writer James V. Hart beforehand)
March 16: Friday Night Lights (the movie)
April 13: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
May 13: Selena
June 8: Miss Congeniality
July 13: The Getaway