Special Screening

Directed by ELLEN FRANKENSTEIN and produced by SHIRLEY THOMPSON, EATING ALASKA is an exploration of what happens when a vegetarian encounters the "last frontier" and subsequently falls in love with a hunter/fisherman ... and the land.  It is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally; about trying to break away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh seasonal food from local farmers, but also taking part in a world of hunting and gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living in a small town in Alaska and married to a fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness, and to what we put into our mouths.
 
Snacks will be provided by WHOLE FOODS MARKET.  The Independent offers a cash beverage bar.

The filmmakers will lead a workshop on documentary filmmaking earlier in the day.  See Item # 3.

Screening Only: $10 / $8 RW Members.  Workshop AND Screening: $35 / $25 RW Members. New Member Deal: Workshop/Screening/Membership for just $55!

A portion of the proceeds from the screening will be donated to Youth Launch's URBAN ROOTS, a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as means to affect lasting change for youth participants, and to nourish East Austin residents who currently have limited access to healthy foods. On a 2.5 acre urban organic farm, the project provides employment, life and job skills and service opportunities to under-served youth aged 14-18 in East Austin.

Rated R; 95min; Director:Rick King (1990)
From the website:  HeckleVision is the Action Pack's newest interactive way of enjoying a movie, and the basic premise is super simple: There's a spot at the bottom of the screen that holds five lines of text, and audience members in the theater can text in whatever they want to say about the movie while we all watch it together. Our debut HeckleVision show, a screening of the classic Lifetime Original Movie INVISIBLE CHILD, was a raging success and one of the most fun experiences we've had in the theater in a while. Unlike regular hecklers who get loud and ruin the movie for everyone, the silence of the texts mean that you don't miss a second of the hilariously bad dialog in the wonderfully cheesy movies we pick for this series, but you also have an endless supply of extra jokes enhancing the experience for you. And when those jokes aren't funny enough, of course, you can text in your own!

PRAYER OF THE ROLLERBOYS is a redux of one of our original (and failed idea) Heckler's Paradise screenings, and as we've been digging through the '90s to prep up for the 1997 Sing-Along one inexplicable trend had one perfectly inexplicable movie role - Corey Haim plays a Rollerblading pizza delivery driver in a bizarre future dystopia that is lorded over by the Rollerboys, a gang of white trench coat wearing synchronized skaters who are pushing a special sort of drug that should sterilize the poor people and lead to a brighter, Nazi-ish future. Yeah, reread that sentence and try to get a handle on what this movie is about. We're pretty sure audiences leaving the theater after it's insanely short run were the first people to coin the term, "WTF?" (Henri Mazza)

After wondering whether she could just have a Q&A without actually making a film, longtime local filmmaker Mocha Jean Herrup (The Lancebian, A Few Good Dykes) decided it was time to start focusing less on making films (aka fixing technical problems and begging friends to work for free) and more on live performance (aka stand up comedy, storytelling, and sometimes fixing technical problems and begging friends to work for free).

In this presentation / performance / screening / and yes, Q&A, Mocha will show films from her collection of short works, perform her one woman show, “Letters of Compliment & Complaint,” and discuss how forms and theories such as systemic critiques, editing based decisions, and optimizing interaction overlap and diverge.

Pairing obscure vintage film programs with live scores composed and performed by specially chosen musicians, Cinema 16 recreates the shared experience and awe of the 1920s silent film era.  Admission and cocktails will be complimentary. RSVP now.

The program includes:

• Blue Movie, 1994
  Mark Street's 16mm shortof repeated performances culled from old porno films and hand painted. A man bends over a body, but what we really notice is the texture of the wall behind him. A woman stares back at the viewer with annoyance
• Chumlum, 1964
  Ron Rice's footage of the making of Normal Love with Jack Smith and some of his cast portrays the whimsical and sensual interactions between actors.  The textural piece draws from experimental traditions as it flashes from flesh to color to movement.

Sunset, an Austin musical collective, performs an original soundtrack specifically composed for this occasion. With DJ Wazaaaaap.

Nancy Schiesari's documentary Tattooed Under Fire is about the stories and secrets that Fort Hood soldiers share while getting tattoos. Schiesari is a professor in Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas in Austin.

Nancy Schiesari's documentary Tattooed Under Fire is about the stories and secrets that Fort Hood soldiers share while getting tattoos. Schiesari is a professor in Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas in Austin.

To celebrate his birthday every year, Harry Knowles of Aintitcoolnews.com holds a private 24-hour film fest. In order to attend, one must apply and provide a photo related to the year's theme, even friends and family. This year, 6317 applied for the coveted 188 seats. However, you can still get to the theater early and try to grab one of the few standby seats.

Also know as BNAT, this festival includes vintage and future trailers, features, clips, and special guests.  It's not uncommon for the festival to include films that won't be in theaters for several months. 

In the aftermath of Katrina, America suffered the worst domestic animal crisis in its history. Tens of thousands of house pets were left to perish in neighborhoods all across the gulf when the owners were forced to evacuate without their pets. Tom McPhee went to Gonzales, Louisiana not knowing how he would help, just knowing he needed to help somehow. He volunteered at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center and by chance found himself spending the next four days taking picture after picture of thousands of house pets rescued from flooded New Orleans. For the next 16 months Tom would document this historic event as it unfolded, trying to understand where it all went wrong. An American Opera: The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever documents what happened to the people of New Orleans who were forced to evacuate without their beloved pets. For more information about the film please visit www.anamericanopera.com.

Director: Doug Pray , Runtime: 89 Minutes , Rating: NR
From the Alamo Lake Creek Website:  ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in ART & COPY were responsible for "Just Do It," "I Love NY," "Where's the Beef?," "Got Milk," "Think Different," and brilliant campaigns for everything from cars to presidents. They managed to grab the attention of millions and truly move them. Visually interwoven with their stories, TV satellites are launched, billboards are erected, and the social and cultural impaf their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.

Foleyvision is BACK!

Rated Unknown; 94min
Alamo Website: Foleyvision features some of the weirdest foreign films ever made, shown with their original soundtrack turned off. Instead, all of the voices, music, and sound effects are performed live in the theater, hilariously synced to the film, before your very eyes (and ears)! Now, the world's most unique film-viewing experience is returning to tackle jolly old Saint Nick in the most riotously bizarre holiday movie you'll see in this lifetime! This holiday season, Foleyvision takes on an incredibly ludicrous Christmas movie from south of the border that features your favorite laughing fat man in a red suit versus your favorite laughing skinny man in a red suit. And this time, it's personal. But when this turf war is over, the only casualty will be your abdominal muscles, sore from laughing for over an hour an a half straight. Watching this movie at Christmas time with the full Foleyvision treatment is one of the most extravagant joys those of us with hopelessly warped minds can hope to experience.