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More Austin links at Sundance ‘08
We reported in the entry below about Margaret Brown’s new doc “The Order of Myths” vying in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
But there are, as always, more Austin filmmakers earning spots at one of the most important film fests in the world, all of whom graduated from UT:
Cinematographer PJ Raval shot the doc “Trouble the Water,” about an aspiring rapper and her family’s travails during the Katrina floods in New Orleans, which competes against Brown’s doc and 14 others in the doc contest. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal directed the film. (Raval also shot Kyle Henry’s feature “Room,” which played both Sundance and Cannes in 2005.)
Brothers and Sundance veterans Mark and Jay Duplass’s “Baghead” is “a comedy in which two couples intent on writing the great American screenplay find their log cabin retreat stalked by a man with a bag on his head.” (The Duplasses are best known for “The Puffy Chair”).
Brothers David and Nathan Zellner’s “Goliath” is “a look at a man who hopes to find salvation by locating his missing cat after his entire life has collapsed around him. The brothers co-star in the film, too.
The Duplass brothers
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By Angela Lee
November 30, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this
Arnie Reyes, Austin Entertainment Attorney, informs of another Austin Spirit Awards Nominee: Chris Eska for his film “August Evening.”
In SPIRIT AWARD NEWS, National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP)Austin Chapter member and first-time feature director was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award, which honors the director, writer and producer of a feature made for under $500,000. The five films nominated for that award were Eska’s “August Evening,” Gauger’s “Owl and the Sparrow,” Chris Smith’s “The Pool,” Aaron Katz’s “Quiet City” and Nichols’ “Shotgun Stories.”
Also nominated from AUGUST EVENING was Pedro Castaneda for Best Male Lead. Eska’s film premiered at the LA Film Festival, where it was acquired by Moctesuma Esparza’s Maya Releasing and slated for a spring 2008 release.