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Texas Film Festival
Stephanie Cannon '06 March 29, 2011 10:49 AM
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Texas A&M University filmmaking club Aggie SWAMP (ScreenWriting, Acting, & Movie Production) is bringing back Texas Film Festival to the Brazos Valley April 1-3, 2011, following its absence since 2005.
The festival brings independent films and unique creative visions to the Texas A&M community, and will run Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3 on the university campus. Screenings each night on the big screen in Rudder Theater include a little over an hour of selected short films followed by a premiere feature film. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance and question and answer sessions will follow many of the segments for audience and artist interaction.
There will also be additional short film screenings, panels, and workshops with filmmakers during the day on Saturday and Sunday in Rudder Tower. Many of the short films have either been accepted at other film festivals around the country or are winners of various awards. Tickets, which include all events of a single day, and Festival Badges, which covers everything across all three days, are now on sale at the MSC Box Office and online.
On Friday, the first short films segment will begin at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater, followed at 8:30 p.m. by the feature film A Savior Red, which opened the Austin Film Festival 2010. Written and directed by Brian Scott Hunt, his debut thriller is about five friends who try to survive a drug deal gone wrong.
On Saturday, the panel at 2 p.m. in Rudder Tower will be a discussion with the filmmakers of A Savior Red. At 3:15 p.m., the same room will be screening a selection of short films from Aggie students that were at previous film festivals at Texas A&M. One of the short films as part of the 7 p.m.
segment in Rudder Theater is The Man Who Never Cried, directed by Bradley Jackson from Austin, Texas. It recently won $110,000 from the Doorpost Film Project, an international short film contest. Then the feature film Turkey Bowl will be screened at 8:30 p.m. Directed by Kyle Smith, Turkey Bowl is a comedy about a group of friends who gather to play an annual game of touch football. The film was an official selection at South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival 2011.
The 2 p.m. panel on Sunday in Rudder Tower will be a workshop with the producers of The Man Who Never Cried short film. At 3:15 p.m., there will be a short film compilation production known as Aggieland, I Love You with stories about love at Texas A&M. After the 7 p.m. short films segment in Rudder Theater will be the awards ceremony for Texas Film Festival 2011, including the presentation of “Grand Jury Prize”, “Audience Choice”, and “Best High School Short”. The festival will wrap up with a screening of the documentary feature film Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone. Directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, the film, which was an official selection at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2010, tells the story of the music group Fishbone, which rose and became one of the most original bands of the last 25 years.
Texas Film Festival was started in 1993 by Texas A&M MSC Film Society chairman Paul Alvarado-Dykstra with a mission to “celebrate the vision and enterprise of America's finest contemporary independent and minority filmmakers.” Since its inception it grew over 12 years to be the largest student-run independent film festival in the nation. The festival has had the privilege to showcase the talent of independent filmmakers from around the globe. Past festival guests have included Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Tim McCanlies, Robert Rodriguez, Sean Astin, John Landis, and John Waters. Every year the festival was able to grow and reach an even wider audience. However, in 2005 the festival was put on hiatus due to the restructuring of the Memorial Student Center. In the Summer of 2010 Aggie SWAMP Club decided to restore Texas Film Festival in place of its own annual film showcase and festival, SWAMPFest Film Festival.
Texas Film Festival 2011 is sponsored by Aggie SWAMP Club, MSC Aggie Cinema, Texas A&M Film Studies, Drifting Creatives, and The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M University. The festival is being run this year by Jensen Yancey, Director of Texas Film Festival; Keller Davis, Aggie SWAMP Club President; and the officers of Aggie SWAMP. To find out more about the event, visit the official website at http://txfilmfest.com or direct questions to txfilmfest@aggieswamp.com.
Texas A&M University filmmaking club Aggie SWAMP (ScreenWriting, Acting, & Movie Production) is bringing back Texas Film Festival to the Brazos Valley April 1-3, 2011, following its absence since 2005.
The festival brings independent films and unique creative visions to the Texas A&M community, and will run Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3 on the university campus. Screenings each night on the big screen in Rudder Theater include a little over an hour of selected short films followed by a premiere feature film. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance and question and answer sessions will follow many of the segments for audience and artist interaction.
There will also be additional short film screenings, panels, and workshops with filmmakers during the day on Saturday and Sunday in Rudder Tower. Many of the short films have either been accepted at other film festivals around the country or are winners of various awards. Tickets, which include all events of a single day, and Festival Badges, which covers everything across all three days, are now on sale at the MSC Box Office and online.
On Friday, the first short films segment will begin at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater, followed at 8:30 p.m. by the feature film A Savior Red, which opened the Austin Film Festival 2010. Written and directed by Brian Scott Hunt, his debut thriller is about five friends who try to survive a drug deal gone wrong.
On Saturday, the panel at 2 p.m. in Rudder Tower will be a discussion with the filmmakers of A Savior Red. At 3:15 p.m., the same room will be screening a selection of short films from Aggie students that were at previous film festivals at Texas A&M. One of the short films as part of the 7 p.m.
segment in Rudder Theater is The Man Who Never Cried, directed by Bradley Jackson from Austin, Texas. It recently won $110,000 from the Doorpost Film Project, an international short film contest. Then the feature film Turkey Bowl will be screened at 8:30 p.m. Directed by Kyle Smith, Turkey Bowl is a comedy about a group of friends who gather to play an annual game of touch football. The film was an official selection at South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival 2011.
The 2 p.m. panel on Sunday in Rudder Tower will be a workshop with the producers of The Man Who Never Cried short film. At 3:15 p.m., there will be a short film compilation production known as Aggieland, I Love You with stories about love at Texas A&M. After the 7 p.m. short films segment in Rudder Theater will be the awards ceremony for Texas Film Festival 2011, including the presentation of “Grand Jury Prize”, “Audience Choice”, and “Best High School Short”. The festival will wrap up with a screening of the documentary feature film Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone. Directed by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler, the film, which was an official selection at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2010, tells the story of the music group Fishbone, which rose and became one of the most original bands of the last 25 years.
Texas Film Festival was started in 1993 by Texas A&M MSC Film Society chairman Paul Alvarado-Dykstra with a mission to “celebrate the vision and enterprise of America's finest contemporary independent and minority filmmakers.” Since its inception it grew over 12 years to be the largest student-run independent film festival in the nation. The festival has had the privilege to showcase the talent of independent filmmakers from around the globe. Past festival guests have included Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Tim McCanlies, Robert Rodriguez, Sean Astin, John Landis, and John Waters. Every year the festival was able to grow and reach an even wider audience. However, in 2005 the festival was put on hiatus due to the restructuring of the Memorial Student Center. In the Summer of 2010 Aggie SWAMP Club decided to restore Texas Film Festival in place of its own annual film showcase and festival, SWAMPFest Film Festival.
Texas Film Festival 2011 is sponsored by Aggie SWAMP Club, MSC Aggie Cinema, Texas A&M Film Studies, Drifting Creatives, and The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M University. The festival is being run this year by Jensen Yancey, Director of Texas Film Festival; Keller Davis, Aggie SWAMP Club President; and the officers of Aggie SWAMP. To find out more about the event, visit the official website at http://txfilmfest.com or direct questions to txfilmfest@aggieswamp.com.
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