5:30 – 6:30 ribbon cutting/opening reception, lobby bar, Hotel Fredonia
6:45 – Beasts of the Southern Wild (93 min)
8:30 – “Making of the Music for CWTD”, post Q&A with Joshua Zinn
9:00 – Christmas With the Dead (88 minutes)
10:30 – Q&A with Joe Lansdale and others
Saturday, April 6
10-4 – NAC SHORTS FILM COMPETITION (Cole Art Center – FREE)
2:00 – Now, Forager (TIFN Film) (FREE)
4:00 – winning shorts from 2012 Short Film Competition (FREE)
5:00 –Screenwriter Sessions (FREE)
Bar Talk (9 minutes) (written by Joe Lansdale)
, Day 73 With Sarah (14 minutes) (written by Brent Hanley)
Short by MoFreek/Angela Bettis (15 minutes max)
5:45 – Filmmaking and Screenwriter Sessions panel with:
Joe Lansdale, writer and screenwriter (Bar Talk, Christmas With the
Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, etc.)
Brent Hanley, screenwriter ( Day 73 With Sarah, 2001 feature film
Frailty, directed by and starring Bill Paxton
Angela Bettis – actress, Austin native (Dexter, C.S.I., Girl, Interrupted,
Carrie) also produces films with her husband Kevin Ford in their
production company MoFreek
Keith Lansdale – screenwriter, Christmas With the Dead
7:00 – Bernie (104 minutes)
8:45 – Q&A, Robert Robichaux (Skype), Kay Baby Epperson, Danny “Buck” Davidson (Panola County District Attorney)
9:00 – 2013 NAC SHORTS FILM COMPETITION Awards ceremony
9:30 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show (99 minutes)
Beasts of the Southern Wild – nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress & Best Adapted Screenplay, Synopsis: Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. Hers is a triumphant tale of the mind and of the power of fantasy and folklore to carry us forward.
Making of Music for Christmas With the Dead – short film covering the collaboration between SFASU and Tasmania for the soundtrack of CWTD.
Christmas With the Dead – made by SFASU Cinematography department summer of 2012. Synopsis: In his quest to fulfill a promise made to his wife, Calvin sets out to right his wrongs and make it the best Christmas ever. If only it weren’t June, and the majority of the population, including his wife and daughter, hadn’t returned from the dead as flesh-eating snappers in search of hot human lunches, he’d be in pretty good shape. Original story by Nacogdoches’s own Joe Lansdale. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED
Now, Forager – One of the Spring selections from the Texas Independent Film Network and the Austin Film Festival. Synopsis: Lucien and Regina are foragers–they gather wild mushrooms and sell them to New York restaurants. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. As Regina seeks more stability and Lucien wants to devote himself to full-time nomadic foraging, their individual pursuits put their marriage to the test. It is a food lovers’ film. The film premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and recently screened at MOMA’s New Directors/New Films and here in Austin at the Fusebox Festival.
Winners of the 2013 Nacogdoches Film Festival’s Short Film Competition
1st – The Dinner Party by Jake Wagner-Russell
2nd – Birth of Trees by Jeremiah Kelley
3rd – Le Flueriste by Gabriel Carmona
Broken Brick for most original, unpredictable film – Doin’ The Brando by Bryan Hickey
People’s Choice – Jean by Matthew Kane
Screenwriter Sessions – short films by writers and filmmakers in attendance followed by a panel including: Joe Lansdale, Brent Hanley, Angela Bettis and Keith Lansdale
Bar Talk – short written by Joe Lansdale and directed by Lowell Northrop. Synopsis: In a dusty Texas bar, a chatty stranger insists on striking up a conversation with the man sitting next to him. The more this out-of-towner talks, the more obvious it is he’s not from ’round here. Heck, he’s not even from this planet!
Day 73 With Sarah – short film written by Brent Hanley. Synopsis: the story of a little girl, who with the help of her dead father hatches a plan to save herself and her mother from her abusive stepfather, but the plan has unexpected consequences. Starring Elle Fanning & Amber Heard
Short film produced by MoFreek and/or starring Angela Bettis
Bernie – award winning film by Austin’s Richard Linklater, loosely based on events that took place in Carthage, Texas. Synopsis: In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she’s alive.
Awards Ceremony – announcement of the winners of the 2013 Nac Shorts Film Competition screened at the Cole Art Center
The Rocky Horror Picture Show – the classic cult musical film extravaganza. Synopsis: Brad & Janet have car trouble in a storm and must navigate the tricky hallways and bedrooms of the Frank-N-Furter mansion and it’s unique inhabitants. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED
