A conversation with AFF

Brian Helgeland, writer and director of 42, on Mrs. Robinson and the creative process

By Deborah Toodle

04.13.13 | 5:40 pm

After many years and a handful of producers, the legendary story of Jackie Robinson is being told once again — this time on the big screen. 42 hit theaters this weekend thanks to America ...

Film Fest 2012

Austin Film Festival takeaways: The top 5 tips to break into the industry

By Roby Brown

10.24.12 | 1:45 pm

After four days of panels with writers, executives and producers, the curtain fell on the conference portion of the 19th Annual Austin Film Festival on Sunday. There were conversations about w ...

Film Flies

48 Hour Film Project challenges local teams to a weekend of filmmaking against the clock

By Ben Griffin

08.23.12 | 4:45 pm

I hate the cliché saying that “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” We know. If it's impossible by today's technology to build a city in a day, then it is easy to infer it ...

It's About That Time

Start your engines: SXSW 2013 badges already on sale

By Ben Griffin

08.01.12 | 8:30 am

SXSW registration has begun. Let the 40,000 + creative business professionals from around the globe begin their scramble for the best hotels and showcase opportunities for next March’s annual ...

The Austin 48 Hour Film Project 2012

Vuka Co-op

08.22.12 - 09.24.12

The 48 Hour Film Project began in 2001 as a local film challenge in Washington, DC among friends. In 2002, the Project grew to include Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Since

summer of analogue

Drop the digital: Lomography Austin's photography workshops are coming in June

By Jessica Pages

05.19.12 | 1:15 pm

Summer is fast-approaching, the days getting a little longer and the weather a little (well, a lot) hotter. It’s the perfect time to brush up on your analogue photography skills to capture yo ...

Film Foundation Series: The Unholy Three and Film

Alamo Drafthouse - Ritz

05.14.12

From the mind of Todd Browning who was most famous for DRACULA (1931) but who also covered some even more bizarre territory notably in FREAKS (1932) and his silent classics starring the astonishing

Alamo Drafthouse presents The Beatles: The Lost Concert

Alamo Drafthouse - Lake Creek

05.22.12

THE BEATLES: THE LOST CONCERT features the group’s first-ever concert in America, performed at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C.  Filmed in 1964 expressly for the big screen, c

Fusebox Festival presents Church of the Friendly Ghost: So We Got That Going For Us...

Fusebox Festival Hub

04.29.12

"So We Got That Going For Us - Which is Nice" is 30 minutes of high octane sound and movement by Henna Chou, Justin Sherburn, and Lindsey Taylor. **Fusebox Festival mobile site powere

art news

Mondo Gallery opens to science-fiction themed, but completely real, success

By Austin Sanders

03.16.12 | 1:45 pm

Mondo Tees continues its quest to dominate the movie-art world by opening The Mondo Gallery, a small property on Guadalupe St, squeezed in between Hyde Park Gym and Vino Vino, directly across ...