VTXIFF Expands!
FESTIVAL NOW RUNNING MARCH 22-25
We have added 17 films, 2 venues and extended the festival until March 25th!
Oh and did we mention, admission to these new program additions will be FREE?!?!?!
We are very excited to announce that we have expanded the festival to reach a larger audience and broaden our programming. Thanks to the Victoria College Film Club and Lisa Devries, We have secured the Johnson Symposium as a second venue for the festival. We will screen 6 more feature films and 2 short films over a 3 day period. See schedule below:
TIME: Noon
LOCATION: JOHNSON SYMPOSIUM (2200 East Red River Victoria, TX 77901)
ADMISSION: FREE
BBQ: A Texas Love Story (short film)
directed by: Chris Elley & Narrated by former Governor Ann Richards
BBQ: A TEXAS LOVES STORY takes viewers on a journey across the state to visit many of the different BBQ spots in Texas and the individuals behind them, from local pit masters, to a group of University of Texas students that have formed their own BBQ club. In each city and town, Elley shows the best places for brisket and the undying enthusiasm that Texans have for BBQ.
DATE: MARCH 23
TIME: 1pm
LOCATION: JOHNSON SYMPOSIUM (2200 East Red River Victoria, TX 77901)
ADMISSION: FREE
Something’s Brewin in Shiner (short film)
directed by Mike Woolf
SOMETHIN’S BREWIN IN SHINER follows the small town of Shiner, TX during the summer of 2003 as the Spoetzl Brewery was set to launch its next great beer. Filmmaker Mike Woolf captures the history of the town’s brewery as well as the small town culture. Speaking with everyone from the mayor to the fire chief, Woolf treats the audience to an often-humorous commentary on the importance of beer in Shiner, TX.
DATE: MARCH 23
TIME: 2pm
LOCATION: JOHNSON SYMPOSIUM (2200 East Red River Victoria, TX 77901)
ADMISSION: FREE
Slacker 2011
directed by:
Bob Ray, Spencer Parsons, Rusty Kelley, Berndt Mader, Amy Grappell, Karen Skloss, Duane Graves & Justin Meeks, Paul Gordon, Jonny Stranger, David & Nathan Zellner, Jay Duplass, John Bryant, Sam Wainwright Douglas, Ben Steinbauer, Elisabeth Sikes, Mike Dolan, Geoff Marslett, Bardley Beesley, Bob Byington & Clay Lifford, Carlyn Hudson, Miguel Alvarez, Scott R. Meyers, PJ Raval, and Chris Eska.
1991′s SLACKER is a love story to Austin, Texas and a near-documentary portrait of that era in its history. For twenty years, Austin has been defined by the film and its band of eccentric city-dwellers, dragworms and proto-hipsters. Two decades later, a new generation of filmmakers have emerged in the wake of this film. It is now their turn to tell the story of Austin.
24 of Austin’s brightest young filmmakers have banded together to update SLACKER with their own perspectives on the city. SLACKER 2011 is a stream-of-consciousness chronicle of a day in Austin, presenting the various personalities and locations that give the city its identity. The film showcases how the town has transformed so drastically from that moment in 1991, and also how some things never change.
SLACKER 2011 is a funny and thoroughly creative send-up of the original film and of twenty years of Austin filmmaking, presenting the city’s changing face while showcasing some of its most exciting talent.
DATE: MARCH 23
TIME: 4pm
LOCATION: JOHNSON SYMPOSIUM (2200 East Red River Victoria, TX 77901)
ADMISSION: FREE
Daylight
directed by: David Barker
A harrowing psychological thriller from a widely acclaimed filmmaker, Daylight pits a couple lost in America against a conniving gang of kidnappers, in David Barker’s rigorous and personal re-imagining of the genre film. Despite its familiar genre elements, Daylight is different – a powerful, shocking piece of vigorous cinema, which fuses eroticism and tenderness with the harrowing weight of pregnancy and kidnapping. On their way to a wedding, Danny and Irene pick up a hitchhiker – throwing the film in the direction of the conventional rural kidnapper thriller. But with the skill of director David Barker and his miraculous cast and crew, Daylight emerges as much, much more than just another exploitation picture. Kidnappers Renny, Leo, and Murphy enact a bizarre and terrifying ritual of politeness, endowing such scenes as the passing of a bread knife at a kitchen table with a threat of ferocious violence – but also trust…