Posts Tagged ‘austin-studios’
Docs-in-Progress: ANDY PARIS: BUBBLE GUM KING
Event Date(s) / Time: Wed, 5 May, 2010 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Details: Money hungry post World War II America cannibalizes one of her most successful and innovative entrepreneurs of the Mid-20th Century. Watch the rise and fall of international pop icon Andrew J Paris, The Bubble Gum King, as his unprecedented overnight fame and fortune are thrown away by a duplicitous government suspicious of the motivations of international trade in the times of the Cold War era
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Docs-in-Progress: ANDY PARIS: BUBBLE GUM KING
Avant Cinema 3.7: Film-Makers’ Cooperative Tribute
Event Date(s) / Time: Wed, 31 Mar, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: Avant Cinema: Film-Makers’ Cooperative Tribute brings from New York City to Austin the group-curated program “A Moveable Feast,” originally presented at the Howl! Arts Festival.
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Avant Cinema 3.7: Film-Makers’ Cooperative Tribute
AFS/Austin Studios @ SXSW Film & Interactive Tradeshow
Event Date(s) / Time: Sat, 13 Mar, 2010 – Mon, 15 Mar, 2010 Details: Stop by our booth at the SXSW Film & Interactive tradeshow and meet AFS Staff and Interns, get your Austin Studios questions answered and pick up cool swag! Location: Austin Convention Center Fees: FREE for SXSW Badgeholders Contact: afs@austinfilm.org Category: AFS Events Created by: Agnes Varnum
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Special Screening: CONTERGAN: A SINGLE TABLET (Updated)
Event Date(s) / Time: Sun, 7 Mar, 2010 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Details: In the 1960s the sleeping pill Thalidomide wreaked havoc on fetuses in Europe and led to tens of thousands of stillbirths or multiple birth defects. This TV docudrama is the story of one German lawyer’s struggle against the giant pharmaceutical company that caused this tragedy. This health care issue from the past is still very relevant today in our ongoing debate over health care, insurance companies, and giant pharmaceutical corporations.
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Special Screening: CONTERGAN: A SINGLE TABLET (Updated)
Narratives-in-Progress: THE HAPPY POET
Event Date(s) / Time: Wed, 27 Jan, 2010 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Details: THE HAPPY POET follows a one-time poet’s attempt to run a successful vegetarian foodstand despite pressure to sell something easier – hot dogs. Complications with the foodstand jeopardize budding friendships as well as Bill’s sense of self-worth and faith in humanity
