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SXSW 2013 selection Grow Up, Tony Phillips (Elizabeth's review) now has a distribution date. The family-friendly coming-of-age Halloween movie, written and directed by former Austinite Emily Hagins, will reach VOD and DVD on September 30, 2014. The VOD outlets will include Amazon, iTunes, Hulu and Vudu. The locally shot production also released a new poster by Jay Shaw (pictured at right), which is part of its Kickstarter perks (the film raised $80,000 in crowdfunding in 2012). [Full disclosure: I donated to this Kickstarter campaign.]Hollywood Reporter recently published its annual list of Top 25 U.S. Film Schools -- and The University of Texas at Austin is #10 on the list for its radio-television-film program. (The University of Southern California topped the list.) The article lauds the university's "Semester in L.A." program and new 3D production program, as well as noting the recent $50 million gift from the Moody Foundation. (Ut is also one of the more...
SXSW 2013 selection Grow Up, Tony Phillips (Elizabeth's review) now has a distribution date. The family-friendly coming-of-age Halloween movie, written and directed by former Austinite Emily Hagins, will reach VOD and DVD on September 30, 2014. The VOD outlets will include Amazon, iTunes, Hulu and Vudu. The locally shot production also released a new poster by Jay Shaw (pictured at right), which is part of its Kickstarter perks (the film raised $80,000 in crowdfunding in 2012). [Full disclosure: I donated to this Kickstarter campaign.]Hollywood Reporter recently published its annual list of Top 25 U.S. Film Schools -- and The University of Texas at Austin is #10 on the list for its radio-television-film program. (The University of Southern California topped the list.) The article lauds the university's "Semester in L.A." program and new 3D production program, as well as noting the recent $50 million gift from the Moody Foundation. (Ut is also one of the more...
- 8/4/2014
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
This article is the third in Slackerwood's second series about the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (Tami) video library. For an overview of the Tami site, refer to this article in the first series.
President John F. Kennedy's assassination has been exhaustively documented on film; not surprisingly, the Tami collection includes dozens of assassination-related videos.
Because Tami is home to so many amazing bits of Texas ephemera, it's also not surprising that one of those bits is a film of Cactus Pryor interviewing J. Frank Dobie about the assassination. Filmed the day before Thanksgiving in 1963, Cactus Pryor Interviews J. Frank Dobie is a rare, fascinating and thoroughly Texan take on the week's tragic events. The two Texas icons -- Pryor was an Austin TV pioneer, Dobie a folklorist, teacher, writer and patron saint of all things Austin -- discuss the assassination and, more importantly, the hateful climate in which it happened.
President John F. Kennedy's assassination has been exhaustively documented on film; not surprisingly, the Tami collection includes dozens of assassination-related videos.
Because Tami is home to so many amazing bits of Texas ephemera, it's also not surprising that one of those bits is a film of Cactus Pryor interviewing J. Frank Dobie about the assassination. Filmed the day before Thanksgiving in 1963, Cactus Pryor Interviews J. Frank Dobie is a rare, fascinating and thoroughly Texan take on the week's tragic events. The two Texas icons -- Pryor was an Austin TV pioneer, Dobie a folklorist, teacher, writer and patron saint of all things Austin -- discuss the assassination and, more importantly, the hateful climate in which it happened.
- 11/12/2013
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
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