Every Monday throughout July and August, the Houston Film Commission will be screening films from it's Texas Filmmaker's Showcase program at
Dean's Credit Clothing, 316 Main Street (between Preston & Congress). If you haven't seen some of these award-winning Texas-made short films, here is your chance to see them projected and in the air conditioned comfort of the hippest bar in downtown. Please join us Mondays for door prizes, drinks specials, great short films, or to just talk film. For more information call 713-437-5249 or e-mail. Through Spetember 30th, mention the Houston Film Commission for a special hotel rate at the Galleria area Homestead Suites
July 18th & 25th | August 1st & 15th | August 8th & 22nd | August 29th
July 18th & 25th, 9:00PM - 9:50PM
- JASON & THE HIGH COST OF ELECTRICITY
by Jim Stedman (3:35 min., Mini-DV)
Jason must turn to crime in order to afford his ever-escalating electric bill during a hot Texas summer.
- NIGHTSTAND
by J.C. Cortlund (22:00 min., Mini-DV)
August, 1985. Lettie Ostrick is the top helicopter mechanic on the US Army base at Ford Hood, Texas. One night, Lettie meets an older woman. The two women hit it off. They spend the night together at a motel. A few days later, Lettie is summoned to report to her commanding officer, Lt. Col. Hogenberry. Hogenberry offers Lettie a special deal to avoid punishment for the severe violation of the Army's Code of Conduct. Lettie must choose between a duty to country and career, or a responsibility to her personal identity.
- THE PATCHWORK MONKEY
by Susan Bell (9:57 min., 35mm)
A babysitters gift of a patchwork monkey begins a disturbing evening for eight-year-old Tommy and his big sister Carol as they suspect the monkey is more than just a toy.
- WAITING FOR TRAINS
by Alejandro Gomez (9:00 min., 35mm)
The last memories of an American man facing execution at the hands of his own countrymen. Set amid a fictional civil war in North America.
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
by Jeffrey Travis (1:54 min., Mini-DV)
It's a common mistake, yet one that is completely preventable. Millions of children each day are left alone with crayons and paper, the vast majority of whom gleefully animate without loss or injury. They are those precious few, however, who must bear the weight of wax-gone-bad. Three-year-old Aidan may have followed all the rules, but in a moment of carelessness, his own creation will go horribly wrong...
August 1st & 15th, 9:00PM - 9:55PM
- COMFORT
by James Webb (21:00 min., Mini-DV)
A young man with a troubled history returns to his childhood home. Over the course of a cold Texas night, his reunited family struggles to come to terms with a past full of pain and future full of uncertainty.
- DOKI-DOKI
by Chris Eska (30:00 min., Mini-DV)
In suburban Tokyo commuters find themselves waiting every day for the same train with the same group of strangers but never talking...until one day, things change.
- MILTON IS A SHITBAG
by Courtney Davis (4:17 min., Animation)
Milton is a small orange kitty. He works for Pat Buchanan. He hates your guts. Why do you love him so?
August 8th & 22nd, 9:00PM - 10:05PM
- NIGHT DAWN DAY
by Marc Pilvinsky (9:00 min., Mini-DV)
A woman wishes the world would go away one day, and it does. But is it the end... or just the beginning?
- PERILS IN NUDE MODELING
by Scott Rice (10:00 min., Super 16mm)
On the verge of expulsion, a hapless art student must decide between life-long ambition and love when an audacious nude model makes a dangerous demand in the middle of class.
- SOMETHING'S BREWIN' IN SHINER
by Mike Woolf (25:30 min., Mini-DV)
The true story of how Shiner's newest beer was submitted for the approval of the entire town.
- SUBSIDIZED FATE
by Lance Myers (4:55 min., Animation)
A man is instructed to burglarize another man's house by mysteriously placed commercial messages. Are the messages all in his head, or has capitalism become an omnipotent force?
- TOWARD THE NEAR
by Austen Menges (4:30 min., Mini-DV)
A roaming musician happens upon a pair of street performers while waiting for his bus to arrive. As the story unfolds from finish to start, the musician realizes that the eccentric-looking juggler is not what he seems to be.
August 29th
- TBA
Films for August 29th to be Announced.
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