From
left to right: Danna Stedman, Jim Stedman, Luke Pent, Francesca Talenti, Steven Hentges, Dana Price, Scott Rice, Lance Myers, Mike Multry (Buy 1, Get 5 Free), Myran Cabello (Everything Must Go), Daniel Loflin, Gary Watson, Michael Off (Bruised), and Scott Haro.
This
year twelve film/video projects from the state of Texas have been chosen
for the two-hour screening. The filmmakers and their films follows:
An Appointment to Remember | The Astronomer | Bruised | Buy 1, Get 5 Free
Coming Out | Delusions in Modern Primitivism | Everything Must Go | Lone Stars - Bass | Love Defined | Pillowfight | Poetry in Motion | Talk to You Later
An Appointment to Remember (2:05 min., 16mm)
Fighting in the jungles of war torn New Guinea, Lt. John Blandford finds that his strength comes from the letters of a woman he has never seen. Now the war is over and it is finally time for Blandford to meet the woman with whom he believes he has fallen in love.
- Luke Pent - Ft. Worth
Luke Pent's film "An Appointment To Remember", is the culmination of seven years of study, investigation and work toward his career goals of directing and producing in the film industry. At age eleven he first envisioned the immense potential of the industry. Now at age eighteen, his first attempt at a complete production was carried out in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas.
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The Astronomer (3:00 min., Animation)
Cosmology becomes a metaphor for one mans life in this three-minute animated short. A narrator compares stellar constellations to memory clusters as we follow theman through his homemade observatory.
- Lance Myers - Austin
Lance Myers began doing traditional 2D cell animation at Austin's premier animation studio, Heart of Texas Productions in 1996. In the first two years of his career, Myers contributed animation to the following productions: DreamWorks Prince of Egypt (1998), Warner Bros.' Quest for Camelot (1997), FOX Animation's Anastasia (1996-97), and Warner Bros.' Space Jam (1996). Myers was hired by Human Code, an Austin-based multimedia company, in February of 1998. As the lead animator at Human Code, he worked on the following CD ROM titles: Disneys Mickey Saves the Day (2000), Hasbro's Barbie's Pet Rescue (2000)*, Hasbro's First Daughters (1999), Zowies Ellie's Enchanted Garden and Redbeard's Pirate Quest (1999), and Hasbro's Girl Talk (1998). *BarbieÕs Pet Rescue was awarded the 2000 Gold Newmedia Invision award for "Hard Media: Creative & Technical Excellence - Best Graphics", 7th top selling software for October 2000. Myers has completed two original animated pieces: The Astronomer, December 2000, and Gutsman, March 2001. He is currently in production on a third entitled Subsidized Fate.
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Bruised
(4:03 min.,35mm)
Confronted with an uncompromising situation and a haunting past, one must choose to turn away, or exorcise the demons within. A provocation short exposing the vicious cycle of child and spousal abuse.
- Scott Haro - Dallas
December 13, 1999, while most graduating seniors were cramming for final exams, Scott Haro thought it to be a great time to disregard his final days at TCU, and embark on the production of his first film. A year to the day later, diploma somewhere in his apartment, 23 year old Haro began production on his second film, Bruised, collaborating a second time with accomplished Director of Photography, Michael D. Off. As Director, Editor, and co-writer of this project, Haro hopes that Bruised will stir up some emotions and open peoples minds to an otherwise hush-hush topic.
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Buy 5, Get 1 Free (34:30 min., Mini DV)
Seth, 22, returns home to his parent's small town shop to discuss a shocking lifestyle change and lentil loaf.
- Dana Price - Arlington
Dana Price is a senior in the University of Texas at Arlington Film program. Although "Coming Out" is the first film Dana has directed, she has been involved in production for several years. She keeps herself extremely busy by producing short films, making documentaries, working as a production coordinator for a major Dallas production company, and generally helping with as many productions as she possibly can.
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Delusions in Modern Primitivism
(17:00 min.,16mm)
In this verite style "comedy-noir" you will meet Jerome; tortured soul. Bored with his extensive collection of tattoos and piercings we follow Jerome on his trek across Dallas for the next, newest form of body modification as he seeks meaning, identity and acceptance from this harsh world in the form of a new scar.
- Daniel Loflin - Dallas
Daniel Loflin (Director, Writer, Producer, Editor) was born on a military base in West Germany. After being transplanted to almost every area of the USA by his lovely parents, he landed in Dallas, TX where he studied film at Southern Methodist University. He is currently writing a feature screenplay and working on his next short film to be produced in late June 2001. Delusions in Modern Primitivism is Loflins first 16mm, fiction short film.
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Everything Must Go (15:00 min.,16mm)
Work sucks. So says Nan about her job at the local 24-hour store. Stuck working the all-night shift forever, Nan has just about had it, while her best friend and co-worker Myra just can't get enough of the slightly satanic ceramics that line the shelves. These two opposing views converge one night, as an array of costumers become pawns in Nan's spontaneous revolt.
- Heather Courtney - Austin
Heather Courtney has spent the past two years working on the documentary Los Trabajadores/ The Workers, about immigrant day laborers in Austin, Texas, which won an Audience Award at SXSW 2001. Her narrative short Everything Must Go has screened at SXSW 2000, the Cinematexas Short Film Festival, and the Rhode Island Film Festival. She is a recent graduate of the University of TexasÕ Masters program in film. Prior to film school, Ms. Courtney worked in the Rwandan refugee camps in Ngara, Tanzania.
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Lone Stars - Bass
(1:15 min., S16mm)
One of a series of short films produced by Roadster Productions, Inc. and exhibited at the Landmark Theatres in Houston and Austin. Bellaire High School art teacher Rebecca Bass assembles students with a need to belong into a class that builds an art car and competes in the Houston Art Car Pararde.
- Gary Watson - Houston
Gary L. Watson, Houston-based director of photography, filmmaker, and president of Roadster Productions, Inc., began his career at a Tulsa, Oklahoma motion picture film processing laboratory in 1967. He began shooting film and video in 1973 as a television news photographer at KENS Television in San Antonio, Texas and later worked in the same capacity in Dallas/Fort Worth at KXAS Television and WFAA Television. In 1981 he moved to Houston and began working on commercial, documentary, corporate and feature film productions as a DP. Roadster Productions, Inc. was formed in 1993 to produce INSIDE THE OCTAGON, a feature-length documentary history of the M.G. Car Company which was completed in 1995 and has had worldwide television and video distribution. In conjunction with Landmark Theatres, RoadsterProductions, Inc. has produced a series of theatrically-released short documentary films called LONE STARS.
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Love Defined (5:00 min., Animation)
- Francesca Talenti - Austin
Francesca started the animation area at the University of Texas, where she has been teaching for seven years. She holds an MFA in film production from USC, and has screened her animations at the Guggenheim Museum, Sundance, the Denver Film Festival, the Odense Film Festival in Denmark, and various other festivals. These days, you can catch some of her animations on Austin's PBS station KLRU: they are part of a series called "Poetry in Motion," in which Francesca illustrates poems with animation. "Love Defined" is her most recent animation. It was done, simply, for love.
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Talk to You Later (10:00 min., 35mm)
A comedic satire in which the fate of one woman's relationship rests in the hands of two friends, one answering machine and plenty of female neuroses.
- Steven Hentges - Houston
Born and raised in Texas, Steven holds a Master of Fine Arts with a specialization in Directing from the American Film Institute. In addition to winning an award at Worldfest-Houston, Steven's AFI graduate thesis film Falling From Grace was awarded the first ever Sony Pictures/AFI Digital video to 35mm Blow-Up Award. Steven holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where as an undergraduate thesis project, he wrote and directed his first feature, Jacklight. He has worked as a development assistant in the feature departments at Bedford Falls and Weinstock Prod/Castle Rock. In 1999 he formed Alpenglow Pictures. Talk To You Later has screened at the 2001 Aspen Shortsfest, and won awards at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Fest (Best Comedic Short) and the Woodstock Film Fest (the Maverick Award). Steven's next project is being funded by Ford Motors and Atom Films.
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