Who: RxSM Self Medicated Film Expo & South Texas Underground Film
What: 24hr Film Challenge
When: Kick off – March 9th 10am & Turn In – March 10th 10am
Where: Physical location at Emo’s Plaza, between Emo’s East and the Beauty Ballroom 2015 Riverside Drive, Austin, TX and Online:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/543687572331688/?context=create
Do 512: www.Do512.com/rxsm
Register your team here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ip44Y9fhertmXlfi_hm4QZZ2RL0USBJ0PZtg13CfJC4/viewform
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SELF MEDICATED 24HR FILM CHALLENGE HOSTED BY SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM AUSTIN, TX – RxSM Self Medicated Film Expo & South Texas Underground Film are pleased to announce the Self Medicated 24hr Film Challenge. Online Registration starts March 3rd. Kick-off starts at 10am, March 9th, 2013 online and at Emo’s Plaza, between Emo’s East and the Beauty Ballroom 2015 Riverside Drive in Austin, Tx. Turn-in will be online March 10 at 10am with the team uploading their film on Youtube and sending their link through email. Films will be collected and streamed on RxSM’s YouTube Channel. Online Screening and audience voting will begin March 10th – March 31st. Award winners will be announced at the Victoria TX Indie Film Festival in Victoria, Tx April 4th – 7th. Top 3 films and Audience Award Winners will receive badges to the Victoria TX Indie Film Festival(VTxIFF 2013) April 4th – 7th 2013(Victoria, Tx) and to the South Texas Underground Film Festival Oct. 3rd – 6th 2013(Corpus Christi, Tx). Films will be graded on time, elements and creativity. Filmmakers have 24 hours to write, film and edit a short film. Assigned elements will be drawn and emailed to the team leaders and posted online.
Online payment through the Art Center of Corpus Christi:
For Immediate Release: Oct. 2nd, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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For Immediate Release: Sept. 3rd, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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WHO: Art Center of Corpus Christi and South Texas Underground Film
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film Festival
WHEN: Sept 21st – 27th, 2012
WHERE: Art Center of Corpus Christi, House of Rock, Art Museum of South Texas, Comics Live! Comedy Club and Multiple Venues in Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas
SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL(STUFF) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – Friday September 21st kicks off the South Texas Underground Film Festival hosted by the Art Center of Corpus Christi and organized by the South Texas Underground Film organization and ending on Thursday September 27th. 185 films from 21 countries(India, England, Finland, Australia, Spain, Italy, Canada, Poland, Austria, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway, Mexico, Greece, Scotland) and throughout the USA have been selected and will be screening the week of Sept. 21st – Sept. 27th . Visiting filmmakers, Actors and Actresses from Finland, Brazil, Australia, Germany and throughout the US including many from Texas will be in Corpus Christi representing their films.
Veronica Hernandez, president of NALIP-SA(National Association of Latino Independent Producers- San Antonio) and Velia Gonzalez, Regional Rep. for ASCAP(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) will be doing panels on Sat. Sept. 22nd. On Sun. Sept. 23rd Frances “Sissy” Farenthold and Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, with Veronica Hernandez(NALIP-SA) moderating, will be having a “Discussion” at the working brunch. Roundtables on different topics(Pitching(Pitching your idea, story or screenplay), Writing(Writing Strategies) and Sound) are on Sunday as well. Pepe Serna, South Texas Underground Film’s Advisory Board Member, will be presenting the Made in Corpus Christi Award during the Awards Ceremony on Sunday.
Film ExChange, Texas Independent Film Network, Mono No Aware, Houston Film Commission and TAMU-Kingsville will be showcasing films. STUFF has films for everyone to enjoy; from Comedy to Horror to Avant Garde and everything in between. Screening venues are Art Center of Corpus Christi, House of Rock, Art Museum of South Texas and Comics Live! Comedy Club.
STUFF has scheduled Mixers from 5:30pm – 6:30pm everyday sponsored by Andrews Distributing and After Parties from 10pm – 12pm every night. Mixers and After Parties are ways to relax and network at the same time.
A Press Room will be set up for the Media for reviewing films and interviews.
For Immediate Release: August 23, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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WHO: South Texas Underground Film
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film Festival announcement of Special Screenings
WHEN: Sept 21st – 27th, 2012
WHERE: Art Center of Corpus Christi and Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas
SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM’S SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL(STUFF) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – South Texas Underground Film proudly announces our first wave of officially selected feature films for the South Texas Underground Film Festival that will be held Sept. 21st – Sept. 27th. We are really proud of the selections that have been chosen to screen. We wanted to make sure that we followed our mission statement:
South Texas Underground Film’s sole mission is to engage and inspire the community by screening films without discrimination, creating new films, teaching the art of filmmaking and networking with fellow filmmakers.
South Texas Underground Film wishes to expose Local and International Underground and Independent films that are diverse in film technique, background and culture by providing a public forum to the South Texas community.
5 SHELLS presented by Film ExChange Directed – Paul S. Myers(Brooklyn, NY) Screening: Sun. Sept. 23 7:30pm at the Art Center of Corpus Christi Devary Courtyard
After a global financial apocalypse a young girl must protect her older sister as they walk across a desert wasteland. Self Medicated Film Expo, Austin TX – Best of Fest Victoria TX Independent Film Festival, Victoria TX – Best Actress, Best Cinematography
ALL I KNOW The Castle Sessions presented by: House of Songs Directed – Holly Bronko(Austin, TX/Norway/Denmark/Iceland/Faroe Islands) Screening with NOISE REVIVAL IN CHINA Saturday Sept. 22 7:30pm at the Art Center of Corpus Christi Devary Courtyard
*Live performance of NOISE REVIVAL ORCHESTRA before screening at 6:30pm 12 Songwriters. 5 Countries. 21 Songs. A 15th Century Castle. And 3 days to get it all done.
ALL I KNOW: THE CASTLE SESSIONS features a program called the Nordic Co-write where 12 songwriters (Therese Aune, Ida Bach, Anna Bell, Troy Campbell, Brandur Enni, Vibeke Falden, Nathan Felix, Johann Kristinsson, Danny Malone, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Lara Runarsdottir, Matt the Electrician along with Roar Amundsen and Allan Reher-Langberg) from all over the world come together for three days of intense co-writing at a 16th Century Castle in Denmark. The films musician’s overcome time constraints, language barriers and cultural differences to collaborate and perform their songs before a live festival audience at the week’s end. This film is about the coming together of strangers, the process of co-writing in all it’s mysteriousness and beauty and how these songs get delivered into the world in a most profound and glorious way.
CAPTURED presented by: Film ExChange Directed – Daniel Levin, Ben Solomon, Jenner Furst(New York) Screening: Tue. Sept. 25 12:15am at House of Rock
Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds.
Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag, hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.
CULTURE SHOCK with Q&A presented by: Film ExChange Directed – Steve Balderson(Los Angeles, CA/ London, England) Screening: Thurs. Sept 27th 9pm at Art Center of Corpus Christi Bayview Room
Director Steve Balderson’s new film CULTURE SHOCK is about four American college grads who take their first trip overseas and get caught in an international crime ring. It’s an action-packed thrill ride with humour, intrigue, and tweets. Starring Holly Hinton, Starina Johnson, Mark Booker, Nic Roewert.
DIRTY OLD TOWN presented by: Film ExChange Directed – Jenner Furst, Daniel B. Levin, Julia Willoughby Nason(NEW YORK) Screening: Mon. Sept. 24 10:30pm at House of Rock
The Bowery becomes a Nexus of shattered dreams when a merchant has 72hrs to pay his rent. Facing extinction, his ramshackle tent of antiquities, lures a troop pf misfits, freaks and renegades who for a tableaux full of carnival pageantry, white lies and victimless in fleeting glimpse of Downtown New York.
THE DYNAMITER presented by: Film ExChange Directed – Matthew Gordon Screening: Fri. Sept. 21 9:30pm at Art Center of Corpus Christi Devary Courtyard
All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he’s left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must face the fact that his dream of a family may only be a dream and he might just lose the only family he’s ever had: Fess.
ECSTASY OF ORDER: THE TETRIS MASTERS Producers – Adam Corneilus(Portland, OR)(Director), Robin Mihara(Portland, OR), Vince Clemente(Los Angeles, CA) Screening: Tue. Sept 25 7:30pm at Art Center of Corpus Christi Bayview Room
Live Performance of Kloudy Girl before screening at 6pm: KLOUDY GIRL Corpus Christi’s 1st female nintendoDS chiptune artist. To hear Kloudy Girls music check out her sound cloud: http://soundcloud.com/kloudygirl
ECSTASY OF ORDER: THE TETRIS MASTERS chronicles over two decades of jaw-dropping video game wizardry. Get an up-close look at the masters as they reveal their secrets, recount their decades-long obsession with the game, compete against each other to set new world records, and enter the transcendental state required to reach the highest levels known as the “Ecstasy of Order.”
FIX: THE MINISTRY MOVIE presented by: South Texas Underground Film Directed – Doug Freel(USA) Screening: Mon. Sept. 24 8:30pm at House of Rock
FIX: THE MINISTRY MOVIE provides an insider’s view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry – during their world tour – as front man Al Jourgensen slips into drug addiction. Ministry made industrial rock mainstream, and along the way their music and take no prisoners lifestyle, influenced the leaders of today’s most important bands, many of whom are in the film.
Starring: Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, Trent Reznor, Maynard James Keenan, Lemmy, Jonathan Davis, Steven Baker, Jello Biafra
QUEST FOR HONOR presented by: SB Productions Directed – Mary Ann Smothers Brunni(San Antonio, TX/Suleymaniyah, IRAQ) Screening: Sun. Sept. 23 1:15pm at Art Museum of South Texas HEB Auditorium
The alarming rise in “honor killing,” the heinous act of men killing daughters, sisters and wives who threaten “family honor,” endangers tens of thousands of women in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and adjoining countries. The Women’s Media Center of Suleymaniyah, Iraq, has joined forces with Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to end this practice. Quest for Honor follows Runak Faranj, a former teacher and tireless activist, as she works with local lawmen, journalists and members of the KRG to solve the murder of a widowed young mother, protect the victim of a safe-house shooting, eradicate honor killing and redefine honor.
SIRONIA presented by: Texas Independent Film Network Directed – Brandon Dickerson(Austin,TX) Screening: Sat. Sept. 22nd 8:45pm at Art Center of Corpus Christi Devary Courtyard
Inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Wes Cunningham, SIRONIA is the story of a talented musician who has been chewed up and spit out by the Hollywood music machine. Frustrated by his broken career, Thomas Fisher and his wife Molly impulsively pack up and move to small town Sironia, Texas to live a more authentic life and raise their first child near Molly’s brother and his family. Despite the change of scenery, Thomas’s deep resentment over his lost dreams gets the best of him as he struggles to find peace with his stalled career, until he remembers what he loved about music – and Molly – in the first place.
THIS WAY OF LIFE screening with TUMBLEWEEDS! presented by: Film ExChange Directed – Thomas Burstyn(Montreal, Canada/New Zealand) Screening: Fri Sept 21 7:30pm at the Art Center of Corpus Christi Devary Courtyard
Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses live in almost wild freedom of New Zealand’s isolated Ruahine Mountains. Until Peter’s escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences.
WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? presented by: Art Center of Corpus Christi Directed – Pamela Tanner Boll(MA), Nancy Kennedy(NY) Screening: Sun. Sept. 23 1:15pm at the Art Museum of South Texas HEB Auditorium
In a half-changed world, women are often forced to choose: Mothering or working? Your children’s well being or your own own? Responsibility or self expression? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five fierce women who refuse to choose. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. Along the way, the film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshiped as cultural muses and more modern times where most people can’t even name a handful of female artists. In the end, the diverse women in the film demonstrate that our creativity and our care giving are not mutually exclusive, but deeply connected. In fact, their co-existence might just be the key to finishing the job. Synopsis Written by Courtney Martin
For Immediate Release: August 16, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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WHO: South Texas Underground Film
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film Festival announcement of Officially selected Short Films Part 2
WHEN: Sept 21st – 27th, 2012
WHERE: Art Center of Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, House of Rock, Comics Live and Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas
SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM’S SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL(STUFF) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – South Texas Underground Film proudly announces our first wave of officially selected short films for the South Texas Underground Film Festival that will be held Sept. 21st – Sept. 27th. We are really proud of the selections that have been chosen to screen. We wanted to make sure that we followed our mission statement:
South Texas Underground Film’s sole mission is to engage and inspire the community by screening films without discrimination, creating new films, teaching the art of filmmaking and networking with fellow filmmakers.
South Texas Underground Film wishes to expose Local and International Underground and Independent films that are diverse in film technique, background and culture by providing a public forum to the South Texas community.
MARIE/MAS ALLA
Directed – Enrique Pinuel(Madrid, Spain)@playtimeav
A found footage music clip with original music by Remate from The album- Superluv- Por lo que tiene de romántico
POLLY, JENNIFER AND MELISSA
Director – Diego Ramirez(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia/Mexico)
An androgyne by the name of Polly recalls an episode of post coital anxiety while Jennifer confesses to a disquieting priest, and Melissa poses flirtatiously for the viewer.
Mixing Sci-Fi, Queer and Horror- POLLY, JENNIFER AND MELISSA is a provocative performance-based video challenging gender roles and identity politics.
PROGENY
Directed – Kyle Brodeur(Bridge City, TX)
When geneticists cloned the first human, they didn’t expect twins. They definitely didn’t expect an escape. Now on the run from elite mercenaries, one clone hopes the secrets of his birth will provide a cure for his ill sister.
SINK HOLE
Directed – Gregory Hansen(Brooklyn, NY)
@GrethProduction
A man gets lured into a horrible sexual tryst by his sink.
SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE SLATES
Directed – Don Swaynos(Austin, TX) @donswaynos
Every slate used in the production of an independent film.
SYMPHONY OF SILENCE
Directed – Cedric T. Smith(San Antonio, TX)
For every action has a reaction. A short film on teen bullying.
TEECHERS
Directed – Jon Stahl(Los Angeles, CA)
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who really, really can’t, teach at Greenville Elementary.
THE DANCE
Directed – Pardis Parker(CANADA) @pardis
Alex wants to be what he thinks Jenny wants him to be, but it’s only when he’s himself that they finally connect.
The Dance is a silent film, a comedic love story with no dialogue, starring Pardis Parker (Combat Hospital) and Evany Rosen (Picnicface).
THE TRAIN Directed – Pardis Parker(CANADA) @pardis
Peter learns a valuable lesson on the train ride home from work.
The Train is a digital short film starring Pardis Parker (Combat Hospital) and Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it Anyway?).
THE WESTERN
Directed – James Brittain(Oklahoma City, OK)
A surrealist western of a drifter who becomes entangled in a disturbed woman’s violent delusions.
THOSE INESCAPABLE SLIVERS OF CELLULOID
Directed – Jeremy Moss(Lancaster, PA)
An experimental documentary exploring memory, ideology, and place.
Stumbling upon sun bleached bullet-riddled vintage porn sequestered in hidden desert nooks and sagebrush, circuit boards and shattered glass along off-the-path shooting ranges, rotting cow parts in ritual-like mounds, a prophet’s omniscient and culpable gaze; contemplating ideology and place, attempting to apply memory to moving image, to extract and juxtapose shards from a Utah Mormon’s mind.
This Super 8mm lyrical landscape documentary takes place in the red rock deserts of Arizona and Utah. The film works in the structural traditions of Chantal Akerman’s News from Home (1977), Bill Brown’s Roswell (1994), and James Benning’s Deseret (1995).
TRANSMISSION
Directed – Brian Lonano(Brooklyn, NY)@ROBOT_HAND
This Gothic Horror Film centers on an old hermit, who lives in a spooky house and his only window outside is his television. Coincidentally, his television is the window to another dimension!
TWO MEN,TWO COWS, TWO GUNS
Directed – Pardis Parker(CANADA) @pardis
A testy visitor sends a farmer’s quiet Sunday on a hilarious downward spiral into udder chaos.
Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns stars John Dunsworth (Trailer Park Boys) and Levi MacDougall (Important Things with Demetri Martin).
TYLER’S GIFT
Directed – Rogelio Salinas III(San Antonio, TX)
Several months after the loss of her husband Leon, a military widow named Connie loses her only child, Tyler, in an unfortunate accident.
UNTITLED(GREEN)
Directed – Michael Vale(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Michael Vale’s short film Untitled (green) is a bizarre, fragmented narrative that offers a mixture of historical speculation and environmental fiction. From musings about outer and inner space to micro-hallucinogens and vaudevillian mutations, your brain will be assaulted by a host of characters including a pigment researcher, Colombian emerald miners and Emily Dickinson. What could link such a surreal Superfiction but the death of Napoleon?
Featuring performances from Ian Scott and Tamara Searle, Untitled (green) is a continuation of Michael Vale’s interest in the art of Superfiction, in particular the interweaving of historical facts with unbridled narrative invention, and the visual interaction of words and images.
VISCOSITY
Directed – Paul Von Stoetzel(Minneapolis, MN)@KillingJokeFilm
A short film adapted from Jedidiah Ayres’ short story of the same title which follows three men in a bar after hours….
WHEN WALT WHITMAN WAS A LITTLE GIRL
Directed – Jim Haverkamp(Durham, NC)
Not your typical History Channel biography, When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl tells the startling, unuttered truth about America’s good gray poet. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, Walt is soon catapulted into the world with her senses ablaze. Based on a prose poem by M.C. Biegner, the film mixes drama, dance, puppetry, and oddball humor to portray the world through the eyes of a ‘sensitive kid.’ Walt awakens to the mysteries and wonder of nature, leaves her home to seek fame and adventure, is plunged into the horror of war, and finally begins to understand the unspoken poetry of childhood.
For Immediate Release: August 16, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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WHO: South Texas Underground Film
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film Festival announcement of Officially selected Short Films Part 1
WHEN: Sept 21st – 27th, 2012
WHERE: Art Center of Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, House of Rock, Comics Live and Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas
SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM’S SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL(STUFF) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – South Texas Underground Film proudly announces our first wave of officially selected short films for the South Texas Underground Film Festival that will be held Sept. 21st – Sept. 27th. We are really proud of the selections that have been chosen to screen. We wanted to make sure that we followed our mission statement:
South Texas Underground Film’s sole mission is to engage and inspire the community by screening films without discrimination, creating new films, teaching the art of filmmaking and networking with fellow filmmakers.
South Texas Underground Film wishes to expose Local and International Underground and Independent films that are diverse in film technique, background and culture by providing a public forum to the South Texas community.
33
Directed – Felix Fernandez(A Curuna, Galicia, Spain)@FFelixFernandez
The audio-visual piece “33″ realized in the city of New York, us it presents a very particular portrait: a personage who sums his life up to turn of numbers, and that, on having resorted to the countable thing, brings us over to a life cold and studied, in that everything looks like a fruit of a strategy. Quite emotion or feeling has been annihilated given his practical nature and pragmatics: in every number there is a fragment of life that has been analyzed and quantified, later to be handled as statistical information.
This emotional distancing dehumanizes it, as also to the system of life in that there is the immersed one.
AFGHAN
Directed – Pardis Parker (CANADA)@pardis
An afternoon surprise forces two friends to make the best of a bad situation.
Afghan is an award-winning short film about hate crimes, humour and friendship, starring Pardis Parker (Halifax Comedy Festival) and Mark Little (Picnicface).
ANDY
Directed – Adolfo Mora(Laredo, TX)
After an accident, the life of Andy changes tremendously. Andy loses all thought of who she is from an injury to her memory part of the brain. Even worse, she thinks she is a man. Her family and friends try to accept this, but can’t seem to understand her situation. At the end, Andy is left to choose between two selves: her past or future self.
BARKING LANE
Directed – Sean Ferris(Pittsburgh, PA)
Years After a crippling world war, society begins to emerge into two distinct classes – the well to do townsmen and the starving rural poor. Shot on Super 8mm B&W film in Pennsylvania.
BATHING & THE SINGLE GIRL
Directed – Christine Elise McCarthy(Hollywood, CA) @celisemccarthy
Single, in her thirties and experiencing an extended “romantic drought” this lady decides she needs to broaden her ideas of who might make a suitable boyfriend. Once offended by her grandmother’s advice to “overlook a little” – she feels desperate times call for desperate measures. But – just how desperate IS she? Bathing and the Single Girl is a raw & irreverent comedic look at some of the pitfalls of dating men you can talk yourself into rather than waiting for one you cannot talk yourself out of.
CARNY Directed – Kevin Lonano(Brooklyn, NY)@ROBOT_HAND
The Psycho-Fugue Circus executes one of their own for murdering the Headline act.
COMPOSITION IN E
Directed – Emily Oscarson (Chicago, IL)
Yearning, loss, memory and nostalgia all are themes in “Composition in E.” The collecting of stuff, memorabilia, trinkets and knick knacks serve to fill a void, though it’s unclear what that void is and whether the accumulation of things actually helps.
DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Directed – Sal Hernandez(Corpus Christi, TX)
EL CUCUY
Directed – Christopher Ambriz(Corpus Christi, TX)@NCPCCTX
El Cucuy tells the story of a bratty little girl named Ally that doesn’t listen when she is warned about El Cucuy!! She grows up to be a dangerous and deadly woman that does some horrible things. Soon afterwards she is tormented by El Cucuy coming to claim her soul after missing his chance over the years.
EVERYDAY TODAY
Directed – Sean Ferris(Pittsburgh, PA)
When the despondency that people face from the set paths that society puts them on and the daily rigors of mundane life become too much, reality can become skewed in an attempt to escape the constant pressures that cause life to become routine and uninspired. Shot on Super 8mm B&W film in Pennsylvania.
GHETTO SOCKS – DON’T TURN AROUND(Feat. Edgar Allen Floe) Directed – Pardis Parker(CANADA)@pardis
Music Video for the first single off Ghettosocks’ sophomore EP, Treat of the Day.
GOOD TASTE Directed – Gregory Hansen(Brooklyn, NY)@GrethProduction
An obsessed record collector suspects his neighbor has stolen his prized new record and he will do anything to get it back.
HOW TO TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Directed – Emily Oscarson (Chicago, IL)
How To Turn On Your Computer uses the educational film as a model to teach technologically challenged users how to complete the task of firing up your machine.
IMPLANTS
Directed – Pardis Parker(CANADA)@pardis
Two friends have a conversation about enhancements of the silicone variety.
Implants is a digital short film starring Pardis Parker (Canadian Comedy Awards) and Evany Rosen (Picnicface).
LEARNING TO PLAY | SOITTO OPPILAS
Directed – JP Saari (Turku, Finland)
The film tells the story of a boy frustrated by his lack of a musical talent with an ocarina, who suddenly hears a mysterious call. He decides to explore the unknown wilderness beyond the borders of his familiar backyard.
LIVING ON STILTS
Directed – Sean Ferris(Pittsburgh, PA)
While doctors try to resuscitate their patient back to life, grainy images and sounds narrate the patient’s mind as he goes in and out of consciousness. From last minute irrelevant thoughts to memories of childhood to public demonstrations and every day banalities – the brain tries to decipher and process the outcome and overload of its ever present future. Shot on Super 8mm B&W film in Pennsylvania and Québec, Canada.
MIR – WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Directed – Pardis Parker@pardis
The music video for What Goes Around Comes Around, the first single off Halifax-based alt-pop-rock trio Mir‘s latest EP, OK2GO!
For Immediate Release: August 8, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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WHO: South Texas Underground Film
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film Festival announcement of Officially selected Long Shorts
WHEN: Sept 21st – 27th, 2012
WHERE: Art Center of Corpus Christi and Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas
SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM’S SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL(STUFF) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – South Texas Underground Film proudly announces our second wave of officially selected films(Long Shorts) for the South Texas Underground Film Festival that will be held Sept. 21st – Sept. 27th. We are really proud of the selections that have been chosen to screen. We made sure that we followed our mission statement:
South Texas Underground Film’s sole mission is to engage and inspire the community by screening films without discrimination, creating new films, teaching the art of filmmaking and networking with fellow filmmakers.
South Texas Underground Film wishes to expose Local and International Underground and Independent films that are diverse in film technique, background and culture by providing a public forum to the South Texas community.
778 BULLETS
Directed – Angela Aguayo(Carbondale, IL.) *Screening: Tues. Sept. 25th 1:30pm in SHORTS 3 at the Art Museum of South Texas
In November 1970, University, State and Local police shot 778 Bullets into an off campus rental house in Carbondale, IL. The residence was rented to a handful of university students, some were assumed to be associated with the local Black Panther Party. Unlike other police raids of known Black Panther residences across the country, the Carbondale Panthers shot back. Using archive material, newspaper accounts, witness testimony and experts in the field, 778 Bullets recovers little known history of resistance and resilience of human struggle for self-determination. The dominant memory of the Black Panther Party would have us believe that the Panthers existed only in major urban cities; this story documents a more rural presence of radical politics and the struggle for civil rights.
THE ART OF CATCHING
Directed – Jessica Bardsley(Chicago, IL) *Screening: Tues. Sept 25th 1:30pm in SHORTS 6 at House of Rock
4:3, Color 16mm to Video & Archival film to Video, 2011, 35 min.
The Art of Catching takes a bordering on fiction approach to autobiography and local history. It is a landscape-based film that features two main stories that overlap and interweave over time. One story recounts personal memories of growing up in a working class Florida family haunted by poverty and grief. The other story is made of journal entries from an imaginary woman who was asked to accompany a group of men on an expedition through the Florida Everglades. Their aim is to hunt down and capture the Florida Skunk –a racist, mythic symbol. Along the way, Florida’s colonial legacy is laid bare.
BORDANDO LA FRONTERA: EMBROIDERING THE BORDER with Q&A
Directed – Rene Rhi (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico/Brownsville, Texas) *Screening: Tues. Sept 25th 1:30pm in SHORTS 3 at Art Museum of South Texas
Miguel Canales and his wife learn that their 3-year-old daughter has a brain tumor and needs surgery. Running out of options, he decides that his only choice is to work in the United States. After paying a considerable fee, a smuggler agrees to guide him through the desert. As they attempt the perilous desert crossing, they come across a disoriented 9-year old girl.
DADDY’S BIG GIRL
Directed – Reid Waterer(Los Angeles, CA) *Screening: Fri. Sept. 21st 5:00pm in SHORTS 2 at House of Rock
Overweight and uninspired Millie attempts to finally reconcile with her father, but his half-dressed male companions keep getting in the way.
ECSTASY OF ST. AGNES Directed – Slawomir Milewski(Lidzbark Warminski, Poland) *Screening: TBA
Ecstasy of St. Agnes shows a certain state of mind and/or is the short movie about love…
FREAK
Directed – Eric Casaccio(W. Hollywood, CA) *Screening: Fri. Sept. 21st 5:00pm in SHORTS 2 at House of Rock
Like the title character on Ugly Betty, Randall O’Brien knows the difficulties of following your heart and pursuing one’s dreams. Take a peek inside his little world of spiritual masks, butterflies, angels and fabulous wigs — wigs fashioned for an elegant yet freaky-looking woman named Sophia that Randall dresses up as.
As the opportunity of a lifetime knocks, interferences both real and imagined threaten to derail a major ticket to success. From a simple answering machine to an out-of-this-world human attraction, a tender soul threatens to crumble, leading to a path of self-destruction.
Randall’s true spirit must face this gruesome static in his mind before it is too late.
HEROIC JOURNEY OF THE GAY MAN
Directed – Brett Mauser(San Antonio/Corpus Christi,Tx) *Screening: Sat. Sept. 22nd 7pm with THE LOONS at Comics Live Corpus Christi
Nick (Jade Esteban Estrada) is an ordinary average man, who is starting to learn who he really is. Through the help of his friends, enemies, and a narrator, Nick follows the immortal hero’s journey to his ultimate self-discovery.
HISTORIA MUERTA Directed – Fran Mateu(Barcelona, Spain) *Screening: Mon. Sept. 24th 6:30pm in SHORTS 5 at the House of Rock
A gothic horror story narrated in two different times by Samuel, who tells us how he met Isabel, a supernatural person, and how his life changed after meeting her.
I’M DEAD Directed – Francesco Picone(Calcinaia, Pisa, Italy) *Screening: Mon. Sept. 24th 6:30pm in SHORTS 5 at the House of Rock
A couple of friends in a nature hike, what was to be a quiet day of relaxation, you will soon become a nightmare without end …
LIFELESS
Directed – A.S. Ghosh(Auburn Hills, MI) *Screening: Sun. Sept.23rd 1pm in SHORTS 1 at House of Rock
“We take life for granted, until it takes back.” When Devin (Axel Harney) receives a painful letter, it throws his life in crisis. He becomes a creature of the night seeking life’s addictions, until he meets Sheryl (Lauren Mae Schafer) who puts his painful journey into question. This dark provocative film explores loss and how it affects those around it. Written, Produced and Directed by A. S. Ghosh, and Starring Axel Harney and Lauren Mae Schafer. Cinematography by Douglas Akers. Produced by The CineMa Co. and AxeFin Productions.
NI UNA MAS(NOT ONE MORE)
Directed – Angela Aguayo(Carbondale, IL) *Screening: Tues. Sept. 25th 1:30pm in SHORTS 3 at Art Museum of South Texas
For over a decade, women throughout the State of Chihuahua, Mexico have been disappearing; their unidentified bodies violated and systematically dumped near maquiladoras (border town factories) and other deserted locations. Over 430 young women who have been found raped, tortured and murdered were predominantly discovered on the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and the State’s capital,Chihuahua City.
Since 1993, over 1000 women are missing.
POISON OAKS
Directed – Sid Deluca (San Antonio, TX) *Screening: Tues. Sept 25th 1:30pm in SHORTS 6 at the House of Rock
The Hidden world of a pair of reclusive packrats. Their Lives, their Loves, their music.
SO WOMANLY Directed – Luis Escobar(Guadalajara, Spain) *Screening: Sun. Sept 23rd 1:00pm in SHORTS 1 at House of Rock
SO WOMANLY tells the story of Andrés, a young man whose life resembles a fairy. He is happily married to Susi, pregnant with her second child. Both are in the prime of life and everything suggests that we look at the picture of an idyllic family. Yet there is something of Andrés past that Susi does not know, when the secret is unveiled… will she be able to stand it? SO WOMANLY becomes a hymn to freedom of aesthetic, sentimental, emotional and sexual expression. The author has wanted to defend the concept of difference, and at the same time show the abstract and relative lines that separate us all, even though we insist on labels.
THY KILL BE DONE
Directed – Gregory Hansen(Brooklyn, NY) *Screening: Mon. Sept 24th 4:00pm in SHORTS 9 at House of Rock
When the Monsignor priest of a small church is killed by a gang of no-good hoodlums and their leader, the nuns in the church’s clergy must take revenge. But these are no ordinary nuns.
YOU CAN’T CURRY LOVE
Directed – Reid Waterer(India & USA) *Screening: Sun. Sept. 23rd 1:00pm in SHORTS 1 at House of Rock
A handsome South Asian from London visits India, falls for a local guy there, encounters a transgendered hijra, and discovers a country he only thought he knew.
For Immediate Release: August 8, 2012 Please publish and cross post in all Public Media outlets Information Contact:
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WHO: South Texas Underground Film
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film Festival announcement of Officially selected Features
WHEN: Sept 21st – 27th, 2012
WHERE: Art Center of Corpus Christi and Downtown Corpus Christi, Texas
SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM’S SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL(STUFF) CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – South Texas Underground Film proudly announces our first wave of officially selected feature films for the South Texas Underground Film Festival that will be held Sept. 21st – Sept. 27th. We are really proud of the selections that have been chosen to screen. We wanted to make sure that we followed our mission statement:
South Texas Underground Film’s sole mission is to engage and inspire the community by screening films without discrimination, creating new films, teaching the art of filmmaking and networking with fellow filmmakers.
South Texas Underground Film wishes to expose Local and International Underground and Independent films that are diverse in film technique, background and culture by providing a public forum to the South Texas community.
BEYOND THE GRAVE
Directed – Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro (Porto Alegre, Brasil)
BUBBA MOON FACE
Directed – Blake Eckard(Stanberry, MO)
The drastic measure taken to break the cycle of a severely damaged family.
BY THE WAYSIDE
Directed – Mike Cuenca(Los Angeles, CA)
Jim (Joey Halter) is a background actor hoping to make it into the big time. His roommate is Sam (Mike Cuenca), a documentary filmmaker. When the two are evicted from their home they meet with Dio (Dan Rojay), a homeless musician, and a Catholic virgin named Mars (Steven Escot). The four descend into a life-awakening 24 hours that involve excess drinking, prostitutes, a sage-like lounge singer and psychedelic drugs.
BREAKDOWN REWARD
Directed – Elias Georgopoulos(Nafplio, Greece)
Two German contract killers are hired to dig up a lost treasure for their employer. Things go wrong when the treasure accidentally ends up in the hands of three small time crooks who were committing a burglary to pay off a debt to Munir, a local crime lord. The three friends use their connection with an underground informer to trade the treasure for cash. What they don’t know is that they’re being pursued by the contract killers and Munir’s thugs.
CHRISTIAN DREADFUL Directed – Niko Kostet(Turku, Finland)
Christian is a world famous rock-star, but underneath the make-up and leather clothes, he is a former choirboy, who lost his parents in an early age, but found comfort in music, and wanted to inspire other misfortunated people like himself, with his talent. Unfortunately, producer Aleksi Roivas has allready planned the career of the next, big superstar from start to finish. Now, Christian has to hook up with a wild groupie, to save his beloved fans from total damnation.
VIDEO DIARY OF A LOST GIRL
Directed – Lindsay Denniberg(Chicago, IL)
A rock and roll horror fantasy where we meet the immortal Louise and her beloved Charlie. Unfortunately due to Louise’s supernatural origins, every man she sleeps with must die so that she can survive! A heart felt love letter to 80′s horror, punk, VHS and german expressionism.
GENERATION ME
Directed – Ericka Marsalis-LaManna (Austin, Texas)
Generation Me is a deliciously inappropriate feature comedy film about dating in the age of social networking. Specifically this film is about a singer named Malia who gets into some comedic relationship troubles via the internet.
Directed by Ericka Marsalis-LaManna, Generation Me is packed with a list of Texas all stars including: Amber Prowl, Jamie Teer (Drive Angry, The Preacher’s Daught
er), Melanie Rene (Guys From The Country, Killa Bs), Rapper/Producer Ray Sr. (Life’s On The Line Entertainment), Ben Baxter (The Ben Baxter Band), Danny “D-Train” Trevino (Fox 7), Charity Royanne Pitts, DJ Hella Yella, Dru Fay (ME TV) and more!
GLASS
Directed – Daina Krumins(Westfield, New Jersey)
An eccentric female artist, an aspie kid, and his sister have to deal with gangster problems.
HE
Directed – Rouzbeh Rashidi(Dublin, Ireland)
HE, the latest work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James Devereaux, is a troubling and mysterious portrait of a suicidal man. Rashidi juxtaposes the lead character’s apparently revealing monologues with scenes and images that layer the film with ambiguity. Its deliberate, hypnotic pace and boldly experimental structure result in an unusual and challenging view of its unsettling subject.
JOHNNY GHOST
Directed – Donna McRae(Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)@johnnyghostfilm
Millicent, a professional musician, lectures in music at a university. She is also a recovering alcoholic who has a commemorative tattoo that stretches across her shoulder. When she decides to remove the tattoo, she encounters ghosts of her post-punk past who won’t let her move on so easily.
NON COMPOS MENTIS: or JERRY POWELL THE DELUSIONS of GRANDEUR Directed – Mike Cuenca(Los Angeles, CA) @blvdducinema
Jerry Powell (Joey Halter) is a low-level thief with memory distrust syndrome. On the edges of sanity, Powell finds himself chased by a gang of criminals as he attempts to deliver a mysterious package for a known money-launderer.
Ontologica! – A Brief Explanation of Absolutely Everything that is Known about Absolutely Everything
Directed – Skylar Gordon(Brooklyn, NY)@Cosmic_Curtain
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, MOW
Directed – Mike Ratel(Washington,D.C.) @mowermovie
On Your Mark, Get Set, MOW! is an up-close, high-octane and heartwarming look at the people who “live and breathe” the sport of lawnmower racing. Brought together by the “need for speed” and friendly competitiveness of the 20 to 60 miles an hour sport, these people form an emotional bond like family. The camaraderie among racers include helping each other out in the pits, as well as, the whole racing community coming together to support the Mikula family, who host an annual Huntington’s Disease race, to create awareness about the little-known disease that has devastated their family. The edge-of-your-seat lawnmower races are captured from a variety of angles, including the jaw-dropping helmet camera footage of 4-time lawnmower racing champ Jayson Mikula. Mark Bell of Film Threat says On Your Mark, Get Set, Mow! is, “a blast to watch” and added, “you just want to jump in and race yourself.”
RAID OF THE RAINBOW LOUNGE
Directed – Robert L. Camina(Dallas, Tx)@RainbowRaidFilm
RAID OF THE RAINBOW LOUNGE is a 103 minute documentary recounting the widely publicized and controversial 2009 police raid of a Fort Worth, Texas gay bar that resulted in multiple arrests and serious injuries.
Following sordid allegations and outrage, many changes would occur in the city, and Fort Worth would become a leader in LGBT equality. However, the changes did not happen overnight and without controversy. The audience will witness history unfold as this film documents that journey from the perspective of witnesses, activists and politicians who helped changed the city.
Narrated by Meredith Baxter.
Written, directed and produced by Robert L. Camina
SCENES FROM A GAY MARRIAGE
Directed – Matt Riddlehoover(Murfreesboro, Tn)@mattriddlewho
Writer/director Matt Riddlehoover’s upcoming comedy concerns a gay couple and the voyeuristic impulses of their downstairs neighbor.
Starring: Matt Riddlehoover, Jared Allman, Thashana McQuiston, Carson Nicely, Malachi Taylor, Cliff Burr, Devin Walls, Domiziano Arcangeli
THE SHADOW OF DEATH
Directed – Greame Noble(Aberdeen, Scottland)
The life of a young woman is torn apart when her family is gunned down. As she comes to terms with her loss she faces the threat of her family’s killers and an even more dangerous and evil criminal threatening her safety and the very purpose of her life; her faith in Jesus Christ.
WILD IS THE WIND
Directed – Julie Chaffort(Bordeaux, France)
Johannes, a cursed undertaker, lost in a vast and strange land, is looking for a place to bury his lover. During his journey, Johannes will face his destiny, fighting against his curse and find the way of redemption face up to mute, fearful, mad and fallen characters.
ZERO KILLED
Directed – Michal Kosakowski(Berlin, Germany)
People with different non-criminal backgrounds talk about their murder fantasies and get the chance to stage their fantasies as short films. A decade later, the director meets with these people and interviews them about current topics such as revenge, torture, war, terrorism, media, the death penalty, suicide etc. Their replies are juxtaposed with the short films based on their murder fantasies.
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SOUTH TEXAS UNDERGROUND FILM 72CC: A 72HR FILM CHALLENGE (STUF 72cc)
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – South Texas Underground Film celebrates it’s 2nd Anniversary with the announcement of the 72cc: A 72hr Film Challenge. Registration/Kick-off starts at 5:30pm on Thursday August 2, 2012 at the Art Center of Corpus Christi with Turn-in 72 hours later on Sunday August 5, 2012 at the Art Center of Corpus Christi. The 72cc is a 72 hour film challenge where filmmakers have 72 hours to write, film and edit a short film. Required film elements are drawn at the Kick-off and must be incorporated into the short film, this 72cc Challenge will have two elements, a randomly picked Lotería Bingo Card and Genre. South Texas Underground Film (STUF) wishes to continue giving filmmakers opportunities to create and hone their craft as well as a providing a public forum to exhibit their productions free of charge.
The 72cc is the 2nd of 3 STUF Film Racing Events, part of the Texas Film Racing League, planned for 2012. For more information or to learn how to enter the STUF 72cc: A 72hr Film Challenge, visit:
In the two years that South Texas Underground Film(STUF) has been around, they have grown exponentially with this year being the biggest year to date. STUF has done screenings and presentations at different venues and events including the Power On conference that took place in May at TAMU-CC and has been a part of juries at film festivals in Texas.
STUF is part of a film network called the Film ExChange with 6 other film festivals involved. The film reach for this exchange is from Brooklyn, NY to Hamburg, Germany. They are also workshop partners with Mono No Aware(MNA) in Brooklyn, NY where MNA teach their students how to shoot on 8mm, S8mm and 16mm. Mono No Aware also teaches how to hand process film as well as hand paint on film. After the workshops, students who submit their works are able to screen at the South Texas Underground Film Festival.
STUF has also done DIY Filmmaking workshops with various organizations and groups including The Autism Meet Up group in Corpus Christi. STUF along with the Art Center of Corpus Christi, are also starting outreach DIY Filmmaking programs with Palmer Drug Abuse Program and The Womens Shelter of South Texas starting in the Fall. STUF and the Art Center feel that through the power of the art lives can be changed in a positive way by using art as an expression for oneself.
WHO: Filmmakers, General Public, Media
WHAT: South Texas Underground Film 72cc: A 72hr Film Challenge
WHEN: August 2nd through August 5th
WHERE:
Kick-Off and Turn-In: Art Center of Corpus Christi
in the Buena Vista Room
100 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
Screening Date: TBA
About South Texas Underground Film
South Texas Underground Film is an official Texas non-profit organization for filmmakers and those who enjoy the art of film. STUF is run entirely by filmmakers (Directors, Producers, Screenwriters and Editors). Our goal is to teach the art of filmmaking to the community and to exhibit the work of filmmakers with underground and incredibly independent visions that are diverse in technique, background and culture, especially those with the DIY spirit. South Texas Underground Film wishes to provide a public presentation for the underground and independent filmmaker to showcase and share their work. STUF is always accepting films of any genre, length and year for screenings, presentations and broadcasts.
About the Art Center of Corpus Christi
Art Center Mission
“To nurture and promote local and regional arts as a service to our diverse community.”
History
In 1972, art groups gathered to form the Art Community Center, now known as the Art Center of Corpus Christi. Its first home was the old Centennial Museum building on Park Avenue. Here artists and community members convened and held meetings, exhibitions, and workshops with local and visiting artists.
In the early 1990’s, negotiations were undertaken with the city of Corpus Christi to take over a building at 100 Shoreline Boulevard. That building was to be vacated of city workers and possibly torn down. Through the persistent efforts of Dorothy Kucera and her committee, funds were raised and agreements reached with city leaders. The result was a beautifully located new home for the Art Community Center.
At the start of this new century, a major remodeling of the old building turned the Art Center into the beautiful multi- purpose facility it is today.
Over the past 40 years, the Art Center has evolved into a vibrant focus of creativity located in the heart of Corpus Christi’s bay front district. It is a unique organization in the Coastal Bend as it provides instruction and education for local artists, along with a venue to exhibit and sell their works. The Art Center is a destination for artists, school groups, visitors, tourists, and community members to view rotating exhibitions of original artwork and engage in art making experiences.
Who: RxSM Self Medicated Film Expo & South Texas Underground Film
