AFF Celebrates 'On Story' Second Season Premiere

Earlier this week, Austin Film Festival hosted an event to fete the second season premiere of On Story at KLRU's famed Studio 6A. This locally-produced TV series focuses on writing for the big and small screen, using interview clips from past Austin Film Festivals.

Before the show got started on Wednesday, I snacked on some amazingly spicy creamed corn from Ranch 616 and sipped a mixed drink (courtesy of Tito's) as I chatted with new friends and old. Among the folks I met were local filmmaker Clay Liford, Maya Perez (AFF conference director, soon leaving that position to attend the Michener Center), and Tom Copeland (former director of Texas Film Commission and current Texas State professor).

Then we took our seats as AFF Director Barbara Morgan introduced the show. She told us that On Story is now on 50 percent of the nation's PBS stations. The program is broadcast locally on KLRU-Q on Saturday nights at 7:30 pm. There's a new title sequence for the second season (embedded below), created by Shiny Object.

The first episode of the second season features David Milch and the late Sydney Pollack discussing aspects of their work (Deadwood clips are included, with much bleeping out of cuss words), as well as a short by Ryan Scheer called The Lab. In Scheer's short, two kids stumble onto a seemingly deserted meth lab.

The new season of On Story kicks off this Saturday, May 26, at 7:30 pm on KLRU-Q.

[On Story title shot via Facebook]