Posts Tagged ‘Paired Shorts’
Love in the Time of Antidepressants
Thursday, April 11 / 6:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 8 Friday, April 12 / 3:30PM / Campus Theatre 2018 | Austrailia | 68 MIN | North America Premiere Documentary making doesn’t get much more intimate than turning the camera on yourself and your mentally ill mother. Australian filmmaker, Paul Gallasch, does just that in a compelling tale of love,…
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Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Thursday, April 11 / 8:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 7 Sunday, April 14 / 3:30PM / Campus Theatre 2018 | USA | 84 MIN | Texas Premiere Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian immigrant, became a successful businessman, reporter and publisher with his New York newspaper, The World, for four decades. He spoke of “fake news” over 100 years ago and…
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Community First: A Home for the Homeless
Saturday, April 13 / 1:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 7 Sunday, April 14 / 2:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 8 2018 | USA | 65 MIN | North Texas Premiere Community First is an extraordinary new movement in Austin, TX, which is transforming the lives of homeless people through the power of community. As explained by the founder Alan Graham,…
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Crossroads
Friday, April 12 / 6:00PM / Campus Theatre Saturday, April 13 / 5:15PM / Alamo Drafthouse 8 2018 | USA | 77 MIN | Texas Premiere A group of African-American teenagers from impoverished areas in Charlotte, North Carolina embark on an unlikely journey with an unlikely leader as they learn a sport unheard of in their communities, lacrosse.…
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Hiro’s Table
Saturday, April 13 / 11:30AM / Alamo Drafthouse 1 Sunday, April 14 / 12:00PM / Alamo Drafthouse 8 2018 | USA | 55 MIN | Texas Premiere Over a sixteen-year year span Master chef Hiroji Obayashi and his wife Yasuyo managed the day to day operation of their intimate Mom and Pop restaurant, Hirozen Gourmet, nestled in the…
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Building the American Dream
Sunday, April 14 / 12:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 7 2019 | USA | 75 MIN Across Texas an unstoppable construction boom drives urban sprawl and luxury high-rises. Its dirty secret: abuse of immigrant labor. Grieving their son, a Mexican family campaigns for a life-and-death safety ordinance. A Salvadorian electrician couple owed thousands in back pay fights for…
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Fading Portraits
Friday, April 12 / 8:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 7 Sunday, April 14 / 5:00PM / Alamo Drafthouse 8 2018 | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 55 MIN | World Premiere Fading Portraits provides a rare insight into a society where the government plays a pivotal role in artists’ lives, controlling the fate of their work, and subsequently their role…
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Float
Friday, April 12 / 8:00PM / Alamo Drafthouse 8 Saturday, April 13 / 3:00PM / Campus Theatre 2019 | USA | 81 MIN | Texas Premiere Imagine traveling halfway across the world, descending over 400 feet underground in a tiny elevator, and spending nearly a week in the vast, cathedral-like salt mines under Romania to compete in the…
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Kifaru
Friday, April 12 / 3:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 7 Saturday, April 13 / 12:30PM / Campus Theatre 2019 | Hong Kong, Kenya | 81 MIN | Texas Premiere Kifaru provides exclusive access that follows the lives of two young, Kenyan recruits that join Ol Pejeta Conservancy’s rhino caretaker unit – a small group of rangers that care for…
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A Film Crew Censors Itself
2019 | Saudi Arabia | 4 MIN | World Premiere Thursday, April 11 / 8:30PM / Alamo Drafthouse 7 Sunday, April 14 / 3:30PM / Campus Theatre Despite the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia last year, film crews are still subject to “moral laws” governing “mixed-gender” work environments. Nestled away on a private beach…
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