Showing posts with label Austin Film Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austin Film Festival. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Scavenger Hunt at the 2018 Texas Book Festival

This weekend, the University of Texas Press and many of our authors will enjoy the 23rd annual Texas Book Festival on the Capitol grounds in downtown Austin and environs.


 The 2018 Texas Book Festival will be extra exciting this year because we have partnered with other Texas university presses and scholarly publishers for a scavenger hunt! Enter to win a big box of books from each participating publisher (listed below), plus discounts and more!


How It Works


 Stop by the booth of any of the participating publishers to pick up your scavenger hunt worksheet. Make your way to all of the booths on the form, obtaining a stamp at each one. To gain additional entries to the contest, share your book festival experience on social media, tagging a scholarly publisher above and using the hashtag #TurnItUP. When you have collected all of your stamps and filled out the worksheet, turn it in at the University of Texas Press booth (#304 / 305) to submit your entry for a chance to win! 

 Winners will be selected and notified on Monday, October 29th by 5pm.

 Mark your calendar for University Press Week 2018—November 12th to November 17th—in celebration of the many ways university presses amplify the voices of scholars and communities, hosted by the Association of University Presses. The theme is #TurnItUP, which was selected to celebrate the work of the scholarly publishing community to find, publish, and amplify subjects, authors, and stories that might otherwise be overlooked by the book publishing community.

The University of Texas Press will be selling great Texas reads at booths #304 and #305 in the exhibitor tents along Colorado Street. We'll have tons of titles for sale at a great discount, so please stop by. There are a lot of wonderful authors in attendance this year, so we’ve distilled our authors' appearances into a single UT Press schedule (browse the full schedule here):

Saturday

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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An Oral History of Houston Rap
Author: Lance Scott Walker
Location: The Contemporary Austin-Jones Center (700 Congress Avenue)
Booksigning: 3 PM Adult Signing Tent on Congress Avenue

Lance Scott Walker and photographer Peter Beste relate stories and images from a decade spent documenting Houston’s rap scene. Through interviews and photographs with the rappers, DJs, producers, promoters, record label owners, and locations, they show us how Bayou City rap music got its distinctive character.

Follow Lance Scott Walker online: @lanceswalker | Website 

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3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Author: Kenny Braun and Jay B. Sauceda
Location: The Contemporary Austin-Jones Center (700 Congress Avenue)
Moderator: Brian Sweaney
Booksigning: 4:30 PM Adult Signing Tent on Congress Avenue

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From high above in the seat of a Cessna and down below in a cypress swamp, photographers Jay B. Sauceda (A Mile Above Texas) and Kenny Braun (As Far As You Can See) have journeyed through Texas to document fantastic new takes on our cherished Lone Star State. Join them for a slideshow of the beautiful Texas country, presented by Texas Highways magazine.

Follow Jay B. Sauceda online: @jaybsauceda | Website 

Follow Kenny Braun online: @KennyBraunPhoto | Website 



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3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Texas BBQ, Small Town to Downtown
Authors: Wyatt McSpadden
Moderator: David Courtney
Location: Central Market Cooking Tent Congress and 11th Street
Booksigning: 4:30 PM in Adult Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

Let’s talk Texas barbecue! Photographer Wyatt McSpadden shares crave-inducing images of the barbecue universe in almost every corner of Texas. He’s joined by Franklin Barbecue’s Aaron Franklin to talk about our favorite food—Texas BBQ.

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Authors: Amy Gentry and Jessica Hopper
Moderator: Kayleigh Hughes
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.014
Booksigning: 4:30PM in Adult Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

 Writers, music lovers, and critics Amy Gentry (Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele) and Jessica Hopper (Night Moves) pay homage to the forces and songs that shaped them, from Tori Amos’s iconic album Boys for Pele to the clubs and streets of Chicago’s youthful nightlife.

Sunday

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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Authors: Maya Perez and Barbara Morgan
Moderator: Jennifer Stayton
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.010, 1100 Congress Avenue
Booksigning: Adult Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

Based on the popular PBS-affiliated television series, Maya Perez and Wendy Calhoun share On Story: The Golden Ages of Television, a collection of insights from several decades of interviews with some of TV's best creators and writers, including Issa Rae, Garry Shandling, Noah Hawley, and many others. Moderated by Jennifer Stayton.


12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Author: Seamus McGraw
Moderator: Asher Price
Location: Texas Tent, Congress and 8th Street
Booksigning: Adult Signing Tent, Congress Avenue

Water, and the lack thereof, has shaped Texas agriculture, environment, and culture indelibly. Join authors Hugh Fitzsimmons (A Rock Between Rivers) and Seamus McGraw (A Thirsty Land) as they discuss the impact of water on the past, present, and future of Texas. Our shared reliance on water makes this a timely, and timeless, conversation.

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

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Making History: The Civil Rights Movement In Texas
Author: Virginia Cumberbatch, Leslie Blair, Judge Harriet Murphy
Moderator: Doyin Oyeniyi
Location: Texas Tent (Congress and 8th Street)
Booksigning: 2 PM, Adult Signing Tent on Congress Avenue

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The story of the civil rights movement in Texas is complex, momentous and highly relevant to discussions today. Harriet Murphy, the state’s first female African American judge and author of There All Honor Lies, sits down with Virginia Cumberbatch and Leslie Blair, chroniclers of the history of integration at the University of Texas in As We Saw It, to discuss the activism, effort and courage that moved equality forward in Texas.

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.010 (1100 Congress Avenue)
Booksigning: 4 PM Adult Signing Tent on Congress Avenue


Beyoncé's blockbuster album and video Lemonade became an instant soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives about race, gender and sexuality. Professor Tinsley, who made headlines with her undergraduate course “Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism," discusses how Beyoncé models feminism and femme-inism and how Lemonade created space for non-ciswomen to explore their own identity and feminism.

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3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Authors: Martha Cotera
Location: Latinx Lit Tent 804 Congress Avenue
Booksigning: 4 PM Adult Signing Tent on Congress Avenue

A groundbreaking new anthology brings together generations of Chicana scholars and activists to offer the first wide-ranging account of women’s organizing, activism, and leadership in the Chicano Movement. Join contributors Martha Cotera and Brenda Sendejo for a look at the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

UT Press at the 2016 Texas Book Festival

This weekend, the University of Texas Press and many of our authors will enjoy the 21st annual Texas Book Festival on the Capitol grounds in downtown Austin and environs. This
year, an illustration from Bill Wittliff's The Devil’s Backbone by the late Texan illustrator Jack Unruh graces the Texas Book Festival Poster!

 We'll have a booth on Colorado Street with tons of titles for sale at a great discount, so please stop by. There are a lot of wonderful authors in attendance this year, so we’ve distilled our authors' appearances into a single UT Press schedule (browse the full schedule here):

Saturday


10:00 AM - 11:00 AM


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A Love Letter to Texas Women
Author: Sarah Bird
Moderator: Steve Davis
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.036
Booksigning: Main Book Signing Tent (Congress near 10th Street)

 Enjoy seeing some of the top writers in Texas at this lively panel discussion featuring winners of the Texas Institute of Letters’ 2016 Literary Awards. The TIL was founded in 1936 and has been a leading force in Texas literature for more than 80 years.

Where to find the author online: @sarahbirdwriter | Website

UT Press Podcast Interview with Sarah Bird:



10:30 AM - 11:15 AM


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Author: Bill Wittliff
Moderator: Jane Sumner
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.014

When last we saw the boy Papa in The Devil’s Backbone, he had finally learned the fate of his missing Momma and his vicious daddy. Now, master storyteller Bill Wittliff takes us on another enthralling journey through wild and woolly Central Texas in the 1880s with The Devil's Sinkhole.


12:45 - 1:30 PM


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Authors: Sarah Bird, Andrea Valdez
Moderator: Kathy Blackwell
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.036
Booksigning: Main Book Signing Tent (Congress near 10th Street)

Lone Star pride runs strong, there’s no denying it. But what exactly does it mean to be a Texan? Is it all boots, chaps and cowboy hats, Lone Stars and barbecue and stories of Ann Richards? Sarah Bird (A Love Letter to Texas Women) and Andrea Valdez (How to Be a Texan) sit down to discuss what life as a Texan means to them, and how it inspired their new books.

Where to find the author online: @andreamvaldez



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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Q&A with Austin Film Festival Organizers Barbara Morgan and Maya Perez

Award-winning screenwriters and filmmakers, including Ron Howard, Callie Khouri, Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally, Jenny Lumet, and Harold Ramis, discuss their careers and iconic films in lively conversations from the acclaimed PBS series On Story. The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has transcribed the best of these conversations and published them in the 2013 book On Story—Screenwriters and Their Craft and in the new book On Story—Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films with a foreword by James Franco.
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Austin Film Festival is the first organization focused on the writer’s creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice and insight from masters, as well as refreshing veterans with new ideas. We asked Barbara Morgan, cofounder and executive director of AFF, and Maya Perez, a writer and producer/consultant for On Story and AFF board member, about what makes the festival different, how they plan programming, how James Franco got on board to write a foreword, and more.

 The Austin Film Festival runs through October 20th here in Austin!

What makes the Austin Film Festival different from other film festivals?

AFF’s focus on the screenwriter as the heart of the filmmaking process and how much we focus on writers, in general – enabling, championing, and celebrating their work and process – is what originally put us on the map. 23 years ago, we were the only festival in the country that centered itself on the writer’s contributions to film. We’re thrilled others have followed suit, finally giving a public platform to the creative people who usually take backseat to the director, actors, producer, etc. What also makes us unique is the comfortable, “living room”-style of the Conference. Our hotel setting encourages people to settle in and continue their conversations hours after the panels have ended. Finally, I think the sense of camaraderie among the panelists and registrants makes us different from other festivals. Many of the panelists were registrants themselves only a few years ago and know the questions, concerns, and frustrations one can feel when trying to break a TV pilot or break into the film industry. They all share the same love for storytelling in film and TV – we all binge and obsess over the same TV series, cheer and groan when the winners are announced at the Golden Globes and Oscars – and that’s apparent in the panels and film screenings. What’s been especially fun over the years is when filmmakers want to interview other filmmakers – Judd Apatow moderated the panel with Harold Ramis, Pamela Ribon led the conversation with Issa Rae, Shane Black with Phil Rosenthal, Paul Thomas Anderson with Jonathan Demme, and many more; they are as curious to know the answer to “How do you do what you do?” as any of the registrants. It’s really inspiring and informative – and often funny – to watch.

When you start to plan the next festival lineup, what goals do you set out for programming? What decisions go into putting together the perfect program?

We look at what’s been trending in film and TV that year, see what trends we’re noticing in the film and screenplay competitions submissions – are we getting in a lot of horror movies this year? Stories with child protagonists? Noirs? – solicit opinions from past panelists and registrants on who they’d like to see at the Conference. We work hard to balance the program to cater to our diverse registrant-base, so we seek writers at various levels of success, people writing blockbusters, indie projects, linear and non-linear stories, comedies and thrillers, etc. And then, of course, one of the big perks of working at the Festival is inviting your personal favorites. We were big fans of Rachel Getting Married and so were thrilled when Jenny Lumet accepted our invitation. The year Johnny Depp attended was so special because before we had even invited him to be our Actor Award recipient, he had said yes because he wanted to celebrate Screenwriter Award recipient Caroline Thompson, who he’d become friends with when she wrote Edward Scissorhands.

What do these books offer to both experienced and aspiring writers beyond the content that the PBS TV show, podcast, and radio show cover?

The book gives us an opportunity to share more content than a TV or radio format allows. Whereas the TV show gives maybe 26 minutes of Ron Howard’s panel, the book gives you almost the entire thing. This lets the reader settle into the conversation a bit more. That said, since it’s broken into sections readers can easily pick it up and read a couple of pages when needing a burst of motivation or feeling a little stuck on their own creative projects. Another great thing about the books is that they allow us to share content from panels that didn’t have high enough quality recording for either of the shows, like Frank Pierson’s conversation and Robin Swicord’s, for example.

Can we claim that James Franco keeps a copy of these books in each back pocket of his pants or is that overkill? Kidding. But seriously, how did you get James Franco to write the foreword to On Story—Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films?

James has attended the Conference several times and what’s interesting about him – one of the many interesting things about him, I should say – is that every time he’s been here, he attends panels all day long and then goes to the competition film screenings at night. Most registrants don’t even know he’s there. I’ve heard people invite him to the big premieres and he always politely declines in favor of seeing the films that don’t yet have distribution. He’s always been especially interested in our Education Outreach track, the panels specifically organized for teachers and local high school students and his passion for and commitment to the arts is real. Anyway, so we sent him an email asking if he’d write the foreword and he wrote back and said yes.

What is the most surprising story to come out of these transcripts? The most inspiring? The funniest?
The funniest story, the one that makes me laugh every time I read it is Ron Howard’s story of directing Bette Davis for the first time. There’s so much advice and inspiration and experience in these pages that I can’t pick just one, but what sticks with me when feeling uncertain about this whole industry and what my place in it might be is Robin Swicord’s advice at the end of her chapter. It initially sounds depressing, but is actually really liberating. There are no guarantees, so write what you want, challenge yourself, and make it yourself.
We are actually in the middle of a moment similar to what was happening in the sixties and seventies that created the conditions for Dog Day Afternoon to be made: the film business is collapsing. So you get to write anything you want because they’re not going to buy your script, they’re not going to hire you, and you’re not going to get an agent. You don’t have to please a studio to be a filmmaker. The one piece of advice I would give is, be bold. Be as bold as Frank Pierson was and John Calley was and Sidney Lumet was. Go write that stuff and do it the way they did. They got their friends together and made a movie in the streets of Brooklyn. They brought it in under budget because they knew what they were doing. So go have fun.


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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

15 UT Press Authors Coming to the Texas Book Festival

The Texas Book Festival announced their 2013 lineup of authors today. This year's festival takes place October 26th & 27th in and around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin. We are pleased to have fourteen of our authors presenting UT Press books!


Poster photograph by Randal Ford (The Amazing Faith of Texas)

For the full roster of authors, visit www.texasbookfestival.org/Authors.

Austin Film Festival


Robb Walsh
Barbecue Crossroads: Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey


These TBF 2013 authors previously published with UT Press, with one forthcoming book from Bill Minutaglio:

In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas

and 

Coming Spring 2014: City on Fire: The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle 




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