Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Reviewers and Screenings
The Austin Film Society (AFS) has announced this year's Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund (TFPF) review panel: Oscar nominee Sam Green (The Weather Underground); Independent Spirit Award nominee So Yong Kim (In Between Days, Treeless Mountain); and Mike Plante, Director of Programming of the CineVegas Film Festival.
In August, the TFPF review panel will convene in Austin to review applications and administer awards. AFS will announce the awards on August 17.
During the panelists' visit, the Austin Film Society will present special screenings of their films:
- August 12, 7 pm - So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain, Alamo S. Lamar
- August 12, 9:25 pm - Sam Green's The Weather Underground, Alamo S. Lamar
- August 13, 7 pm - Docs-in-Progress screening of Mike Plante's Be Like An Ant, Austin Studios Screening Room
Admission is free for both AFS members and nonmembers but reservations are suggested. Tickets can be reserved online via the AFS website.
Since 1996, the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund (TFPF) has given away $850,000 in grants and approximately $80,000 in goods and services to 250 Texas independent film and video projects. Goods and services grants include Kodak film stock grant and the Alpha Cine grant for digital motion picture lab services.
[Photo credit: Image from 2007 TFPF grant recipient The Horse Boy, directed by Michel Scott, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and will be theatrically released by Zeitgeist Films this fall; image courtesy of Zeitgeist Films]