Texas Book Festival: Film Geeks Welcome
By Jette Kernion on October 29, 2009 - 4:00pm
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Anyone else going to Texas Book Festival this weekend? I figure I haven't had quite enough fest madness with Austin Film Festival, so I'm planning to head down to the Capitol on Saturday and/or Sunday to shop for books, meet authors, and generally have a good time like the bookworm I am.
But since I'm also a film geek, I'm interested in a couple of movie-related events that are part of Texas Book Festival this year:
- Austin Film Festival is co-sponsoring the "Survivin' Hollywood: Three Texas Movie Pros" panel on Sunday at 2 pm in Capitol Extension Room E2.014. The panel includes authors Robert Hinkle, Gary Kent, and Billy Taylor, three Texans who have recently written books about working in Hollywood. You may remember Kent's reading/signing event at BookPeople back in July. AFF co-founder Barbara Morgan will moderate. This looks like a hoot, and I'm hoping to be there.
- Texas author Joe R. Lansdale, who wrote the story on which Bubba Ho-Tep is based, will speak on Saturday at 3:30 pm in Capitol Extension Room E2.016. Local author/film critic Rick Klaw will moderate.
If there are any other film-related events going on at Texas Book Festival that I haven't included, please let me know in the comments.