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Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Award winning short- and feature-length movie were featured at the three-day Texas Film Festival April 1–3 in the Rudder Theater on the Texas A&M campus.
In addition to the film screenings, the event, sponsored in part by the Aggie Screenwriting, Acting & Movie Production Club (SWAMP) and Memorial Student Center Aggie Cinema, will include filmmaker-led panel discussions and workshops.
Festivalgoers will have an opportunity to discuss the films with many of the filmmakers whose works are screened during the festival Most of the films selected for the event have either been shown at other U.S. film festivals or are winners of various film awards.
The screening of an award-winning, full-length feature film capped each day’s festivities.
The feature film “A Savior Red,” which opened the 2010 Austin Film Festival, ended the festival’s first day.. Written and directed by Brian Scott Hunt, this thriller follows five friends who try to survive a drug deal gone wrong.
“A Savior Red” was preceded by a set of short films; the movie’s producers discussed the film Saturday .
Saturday’s schedule of short features included “The Man Who Never Cried,” which garnered a $110,000 award from the Doorpost Film Project, an international initiative that encourages visionaries by honoring their creativity as filmmakers and sharing their discoveries.
Saturday night, the Rudder Theatre screened “Turkey Bowl,” a feature-length comedy about a group of friends who gather to plan an annual game of touch football. The film was an official selection at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival 2011.
The festival’s final night began with a selection of short films, followed by an awards ceremony, including the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Choice, and Best High School Short awards, followed by a screening of “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone,” a documentary about a rock band that was an official selection at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.
This year’s festival marked the end of a hiatus that began in 2005 due to the renovation of the Memorial Student Center.
The festival was started in 1993 by MSC Film Society chairman Paul Alvarado-Dykstra to celebrate the vision and enterprise of America's finest contemporary independent and minority filmmakers. The festival has had the privilege of showcasing the work of independent filmmakers from around the globe. Past festival guests have included Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Tim McCanlies, Robert Rodriguez, Sean Astin, John Landis, and John Waters.
Texas A&M Film Studies, Drifting Creatives, and The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M University are also sponsoring the event.
For more information, visit the Texas Film Festival’s home page.
See trailers of the festival’s feature-length films at the Texas Film Festival’s vimeo page.
- Posted: Mar. 29, 2011 -
Contact: Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.
