ZVS Media Posts Tagged ‘screening-room’
UTFI Reading Series: THE JUMPER OF MAINE
Event Date(s) / Time: Mon, 26 Apr, 2010 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Details: Every Spring, the University of Texas Film Institute presents a screenplay-reading series featuring over fifty of Austin’s finest actors, directors and writers in five “work-in-progress” readings of future feature length films. The April 26th reading will be sponsored by the Austin Film Society and will take place at the Austin Studios Screening Room. All readings free & open to the public
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)
Avant Cinema: Chick Strand Tribute
Event Date(s) / Time: Wed, 24 Feb, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: Featuring 16mm projections of Cosas De Mi Vida (1976, 25 min) and Soft Fiction (1979, 55 min) Curated by Caroline Koebel and Scott Stark “Celebrated West Coast filmmaker Chick Strand (1931-2009) passed away this past summer, leaving behind a body of sensual and smart work significant for its exploration of the space between documentary and poetry, truth and fiction, and the politics and pleasure of representation. A key figure in the development of the American independent and avant-garde filmmaking movements, she helped co-found the seminal film exhibition and distribution collective Canyon Cinema in the mid-1960s.
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Avant Cinema: Chick Strand Tribute
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
Avant Cinema: SYZYGY
Event Date(s) / Time: Thu, 28 Jan, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: A program of shorts presented by Jennifer Lane. Lane was born in August of 1968 in Dallas and currently lives and works in Marfa. She studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
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Avant Cinema: SYZYGY
