Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Austin Film Festival announces line-up

The Austin Film Festival (one of my favorites, as it focuses on the writers) just unveiled the meat of the program for its 17th edition, which runs October 21-28.
"Black Swan," "127 Hours," "Peep World," "Meek's Cutoff," "Conviction," "Brother's Justice," "Fair Game," and many more, including 23 U.S. and world premieres and a handful of locally-made projects, will screen at the fest. The opening, centerpiece and closing night films have not yet been announced, but the rest of the line-up is after the jump.

MARQUEE SCREENINGS
"127 Hours" ? Danny Boyle (Writer/Director), Simon Beaufoy (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Black Swan" ? Darren Aronofsky (Director), Andres Heinz (Writer), John McLaughlin (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Peep World" ? Barry W. Blaustein (Director), Peter Himmelstein (Writer) ? (U.S. Premiere)
"Bloodworth" ? Shane Dax Taylor (Director), W. Earl Brown (Writer) ? (World Premiere)
"Blue Valentine" ? Derek Cianfrance (Writer/Director), Joey Curtis (Writer), Camille DeLavigne (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Exporting Raymond" ? Phil Rosenthal (Director) ? (World Premiere)
"Fair Game" ? Doug Liman (Director), Jez & John-Henry Butterworth (Writers) ? (Regional Premiere)
"High School" ? John Stalberg (Writer/Director), Erik Linthorst (Writer), Stephen Susco (Writer) ? (Regional Premere)
"Main Street" ? John Doyle (Director), Horton Foote (Writer) ? (World Premiere)
"Meek?s Cutoff" ? Kelly Reichardt (Director), Jonathan Raymond (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Every Day" ? Richard Levine (Writer/Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Sideways" ? Cellin Gluck (Writer/Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Raging Boll" ? Dan Lee West (Director) ? (U.S. Premiere)
"Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story" ? Kevin Tostado (Writer/Director), Craig Bentley (Writer) ? World Premiere
"Conviction" ? Tony Goldwyn (Director), Pamela Gray (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
AFF PRESENTS?
Edward Burns presents? "The Brothers McMullen"
Kyle Killen presents? "Lone Star"
Noah Hawley presents? "My Generation"
Kenneth Turan & Harry Ransom Center presents? "Sweet Smell of Success"
David Simon presents? "Treme"
David Peoples presents? "Twelve Monkeys"
COMEDY VANGUARD
"Brother?s Justice" ? Dax Shepard (Writer/Director), David Palmer (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Modern Imbecile?s Planet World" ? Doug Manley (Writer/Director) ? (World Premiere)
"New Low" ? Adam Bowers (Writer/Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"S&M Lawn Care" ? Mark Potts (Writer/Director), Cole Selix (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
DARK MATTERS
"Bitter Feast" ? Joe Maggio (Writer/Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"I Didn?t Come Here to Die" ? Bradley Scott Sullivan (Writer/Director) ? (World Premiere)
"The Last Lovecraft" ? Henry Saine (Director), Devin McGinn (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"El Monstro del Mar" ? Stuart Simpson (Writer/Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Re-Cut" ? Fritz Manger (Writer/Director), Dylan Manger (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"A Savior Red" ? Brian Scott Hunt (Writer/Director) ? (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Ballhawks" ? Michael Diedrich (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan" ? Henry Corra (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Louder Than a Bomb" ? Greg Jacobs (Director), Jon Siskel (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Make Believe" ? J. Clay Tweel (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"My Name is Smith" ? James Allen Smith (Director) ? (World Premiere)
"Rainbows End" ? Eric Hueber (Director) ? (World Premiere)
"Rubble Kings" ? Shan Nicholson (Director) ? (World Premiere)
"Shelter in Place" ? Zed Nelson (Director) ? (U.S. Premiere)
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
"Dig" ? Stephen Belyeu (Writer/Director) ? (World Premeire)
"Dog Sweat" ? Hossein Keshavarz (Director), Maryam Azadi (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Embargo" ? Antonio Ferreira (Director), Tiago Sousa (Writer) ? (U.S. Premiere)
"Goodbye Cruel World" ? Jack Zagha (Writer/Director), Enrique Chmelnik (Writer) ? (World Premiere)
"Hello Lonesome" ? Adam Reid (Writer/Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Pickin? & Grinnin?" ? Jon Gries (Director), John Dowers (Writer), Garret Mathany (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Roger?s Pass" ? Colin Askey (Writer/Director) ? (U.S. Premiere)
"Weakness" ? Michael Melamedoff (Writer/Director) ? (U.S. Premiere)
AUSTIN SCREENS
"Burned: Life in and Out of Texas Youth Prisons" ? Emily Pyle (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Echotone" ? Nathan Christ (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"It?s Whatever" ? Eric Presley (Writer/Director), Rudi Daniel Davis (Director), Aaron Gray (Writer) ? (World Premiere)
"Paradise Recovered" ? Storme Wood (Director), Andie Redwine (Writer) ? (Regional Premiere)
"The Spirit Molecule" ? Mitch Schultz (Director) ? (Regional Premiere)
"Ultimate Guide to Flight" ? Scott R. Myers (Writer/Director) ? (World Premiere)

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