Part-time Texan Justin Arnold credits his role as Levi in the indie drama 5 Time Champion as the reason why he had the opportunity to audition for former Austin Film Society staffer Bryan Poyser's latest movie Love & Air Sex, formerly called The Bounceback (Don's review), which opens a weeklong run tonight at Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter during the movie's nationwide roadshow.
Poyser enjoyed 5 Time Champion, winner of the Texas Filmmaker Award at the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival, Arnold said. This and the friendship between Poyser and the movie's director, Berndt Mader, led to Arnold being cast in Poyser's comedy short The Fickle.
"Bryan, he's the man," Arnold said.
But that doesn't mean Arnold wasn't put through a rigorous audition process for Love & Air Sex.
"(Poyser) put me on the hot seat for about two hours," he said.
Arnold plays Tim in the Austin-shot comedy that premiered at SXSW 2013. It follows a...
Poyser enjoyed 5 Time Champion, winner of the Texas Filmmaker Award at the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival, Arnold said. This and the friendship between Poyser and the movie's director, Berndt Mader, led to Arnold being cast in Poyser's comedy short The Fickle.
"Bryan, he's the man," Arnold said.
But that doesn't mean Arnold wasn't put through a rigorous audition process for Love & Air Sex.
"(Poyser) put me on the hot seat for about two hours," he said.
Arnold plays Tim in the Austin-shot comedy that premiered at SXSW 2013. It follows a...
- 2/14/2014
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
As I'd mentioned in my Sundance wrap-up, I was quite pleased to catch part of the concurrent Slamdance Film Festival while in Park City, Utah. You don't need to leave Austin, however, to catch some of the great films featured at the independent film festival this year, including some Texas shorts.
Slamdance hits the road this month with "Slamdance on the Road," a traveling showcase featuring 2013 Grand Jury award winners and local film shorts. The first stop is here in Austin on Saturday night at the Stateside Theatre. It's a double-feature, starting with Slamdance 2013's best documentary Bible Quiz and Austin short Hearts of Napalm, and ending with best feature narrative The Dirties and Texas-made short Winkelmann, TX. Filmmakers will be in attendance for post-screening Q&A.
Local filmmaker and Slamdance alumnus Bryan Poyser (Lovers of Hate, The Fickle) will also participate in a "Slamdance On The Road Coffee With.
Slamdance hits the road this month with "Slamdance on the Road," a traveling showcase featuring 2013 Grand Jury award winners and local film shorts. The first stop is here in Austin on Saturday night at the Stateside Theatre. It's a double-feature, starting with Slamdance 2013's best documentary Bible Quiz and Austin short Hearts of Napalm, and ending with best feature narrative The Dirties and Texas-made short Winkelmann, TX. Filmmakers will be in attendance for post-screening Q&A.
Local filmmaker and Slamdance alumnus Bryan Poyser (Lovers of Hate, The Fickle) will also participate in a "Slamdance On The Road Coffee With.
- 3/1/2013
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Here's the latest Austin film news. And if you read all your news, you get a treat ... a video embedded at the end.
Sundance Film Festival has announced much of its 2012 lineup. So far, one Austin movie is included -- Kid-Thing, the latest feature from David Zellner and Nathan Zellner. The cast includes not only the Zellner brothers but also Susan Tyrell, who now lives in Austin. In addition, former Austinite Mark Duplass (who once participated in a filmmaker "wrestling match" with the Zellners) has scripted a thriller in the Park City at Midnight category: Black Rock, directed by and starring Katie Aselton. Aselton and Duplass are married. (If you haven't seen Aselton before, Bryan Poyser's short The Fickle is a fun place to start -- it's available online, and the gentleman who leaps is David Zellner. Full circle.)Ut alum Todd Berger has been signed to write an...
Sundance Film Festival has announced much of its 2012 lineup. So far, one Austin movie is included -- Kid-Thing, the latest feature from David Zellner and Nathan Zellner. The cast includes not only the Zellner brothers but also Susan Tyrell, who now lives in Austin. In addition, former Austinite Mark Duplass (who once participated in a filmmaker "wrestling match" with the Zellners) has scripted a thriller in the Park City at Midnight category: Black Rock, directed by and starring Katie Aselton. Aselton and Duplass are married. (If you haven't seen Aselton before, Bryan Poyser's short The Fickle is a fun place to start -- it's available online, and the gentleman who leaps is David Zellner. Full circle.)Ut alum Todd Berger has been signed to write an...
- 12/5/2011
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
One of the very few disappointments of meeting Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for the Coen Brothers' creation of The Dude in "The Big Lebowski," is that he's hardly the lethargic, carefree type that Jeff Bridges went on to turn into one of the most famous characters in recent memory, though of course his Dude would probably never remember it. Dowd, a producer's rep who's responsible for helping to usher in too many indie filmmakers to name by handling debuts like Justin Lin's "Better Luck Tomorrow," the Jennifer Westfeldt starrer "Kissing Jessica Stein" and "Blood Simple," which is where he first met the Coen Brothers, is actually quite articulate and considerate in person, something that's captured well in this short documentary from "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" director Jeff Feuerzeig that's as much about his days as an activist in Seattle as it is about sipping White Russians in bowling alleys.
- 5/31/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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