After years in the making, the documentary 61 Bullets will screen at Austin Film Festival next weekend. The film, which won an Afs Grant and was partially backed through Kickstarter, is the latest project from Austin director David Modigliani (Crawford). He and co-director Louisiana (Lucy) Kreutz worked with producer Yvonne Boudreaux to delve into the story behind the death of famed Louisiana governor/controversial figure Huey Long.
Before Aff kicks off, the filmmakers answered some questions for me via email about what led them to make the film and the process involved.
Slackerwood (for Boudreaux): Can you talk about your connection to this historical event, and what drew you to look deeper into the circumstances of Huey Long’s death?
Yvonne Boudreaux: "No one has ever told the story right," my grandmother Ida Boudreaux said to me when I was an eighth grader studying Louisiana history. I was working...
Before Aff kicks off, the filmmakers answered some questions for me via email about what led them to make the film and the process involved.
Slackerwood (for Boudreaux): Can you talk about your connection to this historical event, and what drew you to look deeper into the circumstances of Huey Long’s death?
Yvonne Boudreaux: "No one has ever told the story right," my grandmother Ida Boudreaux said to me when I was an eighth grader studying Louisiana history. I was working...
- 10/14/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
Ready, Set, Fund is a column about crowdfunding and related fundraising endeavors for Austin and Texas independent film projects.
Local director Geoff Marslett (Mars) has wrapped filming in Austin and New York City for his first live-action feature film, Loves Her Gun (pictured at top), which stars several familiar Austin actors including Chris Doubek, John Merriman, Ashley Rae Spillers (Saturday Morning Massacre), and Heather Kafka (Lovers of Hate). It's about a Brooklyn hipster who flees to Austin after she's been attacked. Funding for post-production work is still needed, so the filmmakers are running an Indiegogo campaign through Wednesday, December 5. Currently the only way to get DVDs of Marslett's film Mars is as a perk at the $25 backer level or higher. Marslett says that if the campaign meets its fundraising goal then Loves Her Gun is expected to screen in early 2013.
61 Bullets is a historical documentary project that centers around a famous assassination in 1935. U.
Local director Geoff Marslett (Mars) has wrapped filming in Austin and New York City for his first live-action feature film, Loves Her Gun (pictured at top), which stars several familiar Austin actors including Chris Doubek, John Merriman, Ashley Rae Spillers (Saturday Morning Massacre), and Heather Kafka (Lovers of Hate). It's about a Brooklyn hipster who flees to Austin after she's been attacked. Funding for post-production work is still needed, so the filmmakers are running an Indiegogo campaign through Wednesday, December 5. Currently the only way to get DVDs of Marslett's film Mars is as a perk at the $25 backer level or higher. Marslett says that if the campaign meets its fundraising goal then Loves Her Gun is expected to screen in early 2013.
61 Bullets is a historical documentary project that centers around a famous assassination in 1935. U.
- 11/13/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
In September 2009, I noticed an unusual special event in an Austin Film Society weekly bulletin about a unique performance piece. The Trash Project was meant to "educate audience members about waste reduction while acknowledging the hard work Austin’s sanitation workers." Choreographer Allison Orr of Forklift Danceworks had organized "the biggest dance of [her] life." It was almost a footnote that director Andrew Garrison (Third Ward TX) would be documenting the event, especially when it included 15(!) vehicles.
Now the film Trash Dance is set to make its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday. Andrew Garrison directed, shot, and produced the documentary, with editing by Angela Pires and sound design by Graham Reynolds. Steve Mims (Incendiary: The Willingham Case), Deb Lewis (Troop 1500, Crawford) and Nancy Schiesari (Tattooed Under Fire) provided additional photography. Here's what Garrison and Allison Orr had to say about their project.
Slackerwood: Describe Trash Dance for us in a couple of sentences.
Now the film Trash Dance is set to make its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday. Andrew Garrison directed, shot, and produced the documentary, with editing by Angela Pires and sound design by Graham Reynolds. Steve Mims (Incendiary: The Willingham Case), Deb Lewis (Troop 1500, Crawford) and Nancy Schiesari (Tattooed Under Fire) provided additional photography. Here's what Garrison and Allison Orr had to say about their project.
Slackerwood: Describe Trash Dance for us in a couple of sentences.
- 3/8/2012
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
(Clockwise from upper left: Welcome, Visioneers, Crawford, A Single Man.)
Deals. Catching up on news from the past week: Contemporary drama Welcome deals with illegal immigration and "covert border crossings." Directed by Philippe Lioret, Welcome focuses on a teenager (Firat Ayverdi) and a middle-aged swimming instructor (Vincent Lindon) who develop a strong bond, in part because they are both dealing with being separated from the women they love. Film Movement plans to release Welcome in the second quarter of 2010, according to indieWIRE. Check out the trailer after the jump.
Online / On Demand Viewing. It may be cold outside, but you don't have to go outside to watch Visioneers, which "feels fresh and invigorating," wrote Eric D. Snider in his Cinematical review. "It's a high-concept comedy, but it's down-to-earth and accessible, even a little touching." The comedy is about a man's "search for meaning in his life, and comedian Zach Galifianakis...
Deals. Catching up on news from the past week: Contemporary drama Welcome deals with illegal immigration and "covert border crossings." Directed by Philippe Lioret, Welcome focuses on a teenager (Firat Ayverdi) and a middle-aged swimming instructor (Vincent Lindon) who develop a strong bond, in part because they are both dealing with being separated from the women they love. Film Movement plans to release Welcome in the second quarter of 2010, according to indieWIRE. Check out the trailer after the jump.
Online / On Demand Viewing. It may be cold outside, but you don't have to go outside to watch Visioneers, which "feels fresh and invigorating," wrote Eric D. Snider in his Cinematical review. "It's a high-concept comedy, but it's down-to-earth and accessible, even a little touching." The comedy is about a man's "search for meaning in his life, and comedian Zach Galifianakis...
- 12/18/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Tonight, The Big Picture will host a special Phoenix Film Foundation screening of Crawford, a documentary about what happens to the town of Crawford, Texas (population 800ish) when George W. Bush decides to move there while a Presidential candidate back in the late 1990s.
Crawford was a sleepy little town until W. came to town, and brought with him hordes of media as well as the Cindy Sheehan protests and some other dust-ups the residents weren't really accustomed to seeing. I suppose, like any town, Crawford has a diversity of opinion, so to see how such a small town reacts not just to the attention thrust upon it but also the success and failures of its most famous resident impact it should make for a good couple of hours at the movies.
Premiering last year at South by Southwest, Crawford has done the festival circuit for a while and now winds up here in Phoenix,...
Crawford was a sleepy little town until W. came to town, and brought with him hordes of media as well as the Cindy Sheehan protests and some other dust-ups the residents weren't really accustomed to seeing. I suppose, like any town, Crawford has a diversity of opinion, so to see how such a small town reacts not just to the attention thrust upon it but also the success and failures of its most famous resident impact it should make for a good couple of hours at the movies.
Premiering last year at South by Southwest, Crawford has done the festival circuit for a while and now winds up here in Phoenix,...
- 1/19/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
The Austin Film Critics Association recently named its favorites of 2008, and wouldn't ya know it, some of our very favorite films of the year were on there too, many of which had their premieres at the Alamo Drafthouse!
Beloved titles Let The Right One In (currently showing at South Lamar) and Timecrimes (opening in January) both rolled into town via Fantastic Fest and have been building a devoted following ever since. Also on the list was the documentary Crawford, which made its theatrical debut at the Drafthouse a few months back.
Of course, there are tons more great titles on their list that we've been proud to screen, from The Dark Knight to Milk and about three fistfuls of others. So take a look if you wanna see what a bunch of fellow movie nuts with great taste think of the year in review:
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December 16, 2008 (Austin, TX) -- The Austin...
Beloved titles Let The Right One In (currently showing at South Lamar) and Timecrimes (opening in January) both rolled into town via Fantastic Fest and have been building a devoted following ever since. Also on the list was the documentary Crawford, which made its theatrical debut at the Drafthouse a few months back.
Of course, there are tons more great titles on their list that we've been proud to screen, from The Dark Knight to Milk and about three fistfuls of others. So take a look if you wanna see what a bunch of fellow movie nuts with great taste think of the year in review:
* * * * * *
December 16, 2008 (Austin, TX) -- The Austin...
- 12/16/2008
- by Zack Carlson
- OriginalAlamo.com
The Austin Film Critics Association recently named its favorites of 2008, and wouldn't ya know it, some of our very favorite films of the year were on there too, many of which had their premieres at the Alamo Drafthouse!
Beloved titles Let The Right One In (currently showing at South Lamar) and Timecrimes (opening in January) both rolled into town via Fantastic Fest and have been building a devoted following ever since. Also on the list was the documentary Crawford, which made its theatrical debut at the Drafthouse a few months back.
Of course, there are tons more great titles on their list that we've been proud to screen, from The Dark Knight to Milk and about three fistfuls of others. So take a look if you wanna see what a bunch of fellow movie nuts with great taste think of the year in review:
* * * * * *
December 16, 2008 (Austin, TX) -- The Austin...
Beloved titles Let The Right One In (currently showing at South Lamar) and Timecrimes (opening in January) both rolled into town via Fantastic Fest and have been building a devoted following ever since. Also on the list was the documentary Crawford, which made its theatrical debut at the Drafthouse a few months back.
Of course, there are tons more great titles on their list that we've been proud to screen, from The Dark Knight to Milk and about three fistfuls of others. So take a look if you wanna see what a bunch of fellow movie nuts with great taste think of the year in review:
* * * * * *
December 16, 2008 (Austin, TX) -- The Austin...
- 12/16/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Zack Carlson)
- FantasticFest.com
Crawford, David Modigliani's documentary about George W. Bush's adopted home town, becomes available today for free streaming on Hulu, with downloads to come via Amazon VOD and iTunes. Hulu is billing this as their first movie premiere, which hopefully is an indication that the site, a co-venture of super-mainstream media companies NBC and Fox, are prepared to showcase additional films straight off the festival circuit in the future. The Texas company has become a name-brand over the past year or so for their film festival ...
- 10/7/2008
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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