Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN) co-sponsored by SWAMP and MFAH Presents a Screening of SLACKER 2011 This Friday, February 17th 7:00 PM MFAH Law Building (map) Filmmakers in attendance for…
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Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN) co-sponsored by SWAMP and MFAH
Presents a Screening of
SLACKER 2011
This Friday, February 17th
7:00 PM
MFAH Law Building (map)
Filmmakers in attendance for Q&A!
SWAMP supported Richard Linklater’s original 1991 movie SLACKER through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Regional Filmmakers Fund that SWAMP administered. The movie went on to inspire a generation of American filmmakers by exploring the subculture of Austin, Texas, in a loose narrative with a tapestry of quirky characters. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of that iconic movie, twenty-four of Austin’s top filmmakers banded together to update Slacker with their own perspectives.
SLACKER 2011 is a stream-of-consciousness chronicle of a day in Austin, presenting the city-dwellers, dragworms, proto-hipsters, and locations that give the city its modern identity. The film showcases a transformed town next to things that never change. Slacker 2011 is an homage to twenty years of independent filmmaking, presenting the city’s changing face and showcasing some of its most exciting talent.
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Award-nominated documentary WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM by Heather Courtney gets it’s screening date!
Pr
esented by Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN), co-sponsored by SWAMP
Monday, January 30th
Sundance Cinemas (map)
Time 7:30
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From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, forever changed by a faraway war.
A documentary about growing up, Where Soldiers Come From is an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars and the families and town they come from. Returning to her hometown, Director Heather Courtney gains extraordinary access following these young men as they grow and change from teenagers stuck in their town, to 23-year-old veterans facing the struggles of returning home.
Filmmaker to attend Q&A after screening.
Watch trailer:
Where Soldiers Come From – New HD Trailer from Heather Courtney on Vimeo.
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Congratulations to SWAMP Emerging Filmmaker recipient Terence Nance’s “whimsical blend of live action and animation” feature film AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY was accepted to Sundance Film Festival’s 2012 New Frontier section! The film has also been selected for the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and Santa Barbara’s International Film Festival! See trailer here.
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SWAMP is pleased to co-sponsor the spring 2012 Houston screenings from the Texas Independent Film Network (TIFN). Four independent films from Texas filmmakers will screen:
In February, the TIFN will showcase the remake of SLACKER, Richard Linklater’s 90′s classic independent film that has continued to inspire filmmakers in Austin and beyond. SLACKER 2011 is a stream-of-consciousness chronicle of a day in Austin, presenting the city-dwellers, dragworms, proto-hipsters and locations that give the city its modern identity. The film showcases a transformed town next to things that never change. An homage to twenty years of independent filmmaking, presenting the Austin’s changing face and
showcasing 24 of its most exciting talent.
For the month of March, the TIFN will offer an exciting double feature on two topics with deep roots in Texas culture: beer and BBQ. Narrated by Governor Ann Richards and directed by Chris Elley, BBQ: A TEXAS LOVE STORY showcases the history and love of BBQ in Texas, as well as the individuals behind the brisket. The second feature comes from director Mike Woolf’s SOMETHING’S BREWIN’ IN SHINER. This documentary takes audiences to Shiner, TX in the summer of 2003, as an infamous small town prepares for the launch of Shiner’s newest brew.
In April, the TIFN will show AN ORDINARY FAMILY. Written and directed by Mike Akel, the film humorously follows two brothers on a weeklong family vacation that quickly goes awkwardly wrong.
Director Heather Courtney’s documentary film, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM, which follows several U.S. soldiers on their personal journeys as they fight the war in Afghanistan. Date TBA
SWAMP is committed to the film and video art of this region, the artists producing independent images, and to the cultivation of an engaged audience.
