Co-written and directed by Austin filmmaker John E. Bryant, THE OVERBROOK BROTHERS is finally getting its chance to be seen by a much wider audience on IFC Films ON DEMAND.

Web Files’ host, Kristyn Burtt, interviews Sean Hinchey and Eric Tozzi, whose web series, Dirty Bomb Diaries, has gone where few series have gone before

Below is a reprint of an email received from the Austin Film Society. Hopefully this will be useful to those who are not on the AFS email list. SXSW, March 13-22, 2009AFS Screenings & Special Events During SXSW 1. SXSW PANEL: GET THE MOST OUT OF SXSW (3/13) 2. AFS SXSW Member Showcase 1 & [...]

DATE: Wednesday, March 4th TIME: 7:15am LOCATION: The South Steps of the Capitol Building WARDROBE: Wear Red. Look nice. AGENDA: · 7:15am – CALL TIME! Be on the South Steps of the Capitol Building in your snazzy red outfits! There will be a table set up where you can get information, pick up a Rally [...]

Self-described ‘working class actor’ John Cygan offers his take on the deal that AFTRA signed and why SAG should not agree to that same deal. What do you think?

The following is a list of POTENTIAL SAG signatory film productions that may shoot in Texas and Louisiana. This list is published in the interest of tracking the level of film production coming to Texas under the current 5% film incentive program. Note that Texas has 11 potential signatory projects listed and Louisiana has 14. [...]

Here’s the latest SAG production update that members receive via email. I’m just including Texas and Louisiana here. Note the number of “TH”, that is ‘Theatrical’ contracts in Louisiana vs the number of low budget contracted productions in Texas. This is a reminder of what is at stake unless the Texas legislature improves the tax [...]

First…sorry for the outage today. My bandwidth has spiked and I outgrew my old hosting plan. In an effort to get things back up ASAP I’m afraid I probably made things worse and lengthened the process. With much thanks to the great support staff at Hostpc.com, I’m back online…for better or worse. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS….SEASON 3 [...]

It’s been said there are no small parts…only small actors. Well, that’s not really true. There ARE small parts. I know. I’ve done my share of them and will likely do more, Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise. Last year I had the pleasure of doing a decidedly small role in a project called [...]

ACTING OUT of STATE by Craig Berlin Founding Board Member (Retired) Texas Motion Picture Alliance  http://www.txmpa.org Acting is something close to my heart. Talent does not guarantee success and even though I did a lot of acting in high school and college, I opted to go behind the camera as a career because it felt [...]