NEWS WITH A BITE
Attending the screening of Farming the Revolution at Indie Meme’s 10th annual South Asian Film Festival, held from April 9-13 at AFS Cinema, provided an opportunity to witness a powerful…
Wham Bam, Thank You, Ma’am! is more like it. David Messier neé Starbuckle is one whirlwind of a performer who cannot be cornered by genre, style, or visual sensibility. He’s…
Austin Jewish Film Festival’s 22nd Season Opens with the film directed by Sal Litvak, Guns and Moses, FADE IN: A CHILEAN CITYSCAPE TRANSFORMS INTO NEW YORK CITY. NARRATOR (V.O.)Sal Litvak’s…
This is the second article about the excellent indie film Footprints on the Water, soon to be released in theaters nationwide. The author had the opportunity to Zoom with Nathalia…
Footprints on the Water I had planned to go to the Indie Meme Film Festival this year but was laid in bed with something wretched. The organizers of this Austin-based…
At the turn of the 20th century, when silent films were all the rage in America and Europe, it was not uncommon for a pianist and another instrumentalist to perform…
I reference the anarchic and collage-like Van Sant film of the early 90s in the title of this article. That’s because AFS is the only arthouse movie theater (and so…
At this year’s 30th Austin Film Festival, I caught up with Australian indie filmmaker Heath Davis (pictured), a writer/director/producer of the features Broke, Book Week, and Locusts. Featured at this…
In the early 90s, virtual reality (VR) was all the rage as it was brand new. In 1991, two years after the Berlin Wall fell, I was filming a video…
I was fortunate to meet the film and TV director and producer Billy Corben at the ATX TV Festival. During our conversation, we both stopped for a minute, turned our…