SXSW REVIEW: AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR

SXSW REVIEW: AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR

Carroll Pickett was a minister in Huntsville, TX–a place best known for its many prisons and high number of executions–when two of his parishioners were taken hostage in an infamous prison riot in 1974. He was called in to try to broker peace, but his friends were eventually killed, and Pickett vowed to never return […]

BLEEDING RUST: “GLORY AT SEA!” IN NEW ORLEANS

BLEEDING RUST: “GLORY AT SEA!” IN NEW ORLEANS

“Glory at Sea!” plays at SXSW in the Shorts 3 program on March 9, 11th and 14th, at the Alamo Lamar Cinemas. In the guidelines to the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund–the grants that Rooftop offers to filmmakers whose work has screened with us–we say “We are more likely to fund films that make the most of […]

2008 SXSW FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR- PART II

2008 SXSW FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR- PART II

Part 1 of this entry can be found HERE Living With the Tudors (Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope) OK, I haven’t seen any of this film, but Guthrie and Pope’s first film (Bata-Ville, Rooftop Summer Series 2006) is one of the most unique, wonderful, underappreciated docs of the last 10 years, so far as I […]

2008 SXSW FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR- PART I

2008 SXSW FILMS TO LOOK OUT FOR- PART I

I’ve had the good fortune to see a bunch of the films at SXSW in advance (either in part or in full), and I can tell you that this year’s batch boasts yet another strong collection of genuinely independent films. In 2007 we programmed several really fantastic films that had premiered in Austin, and for good […]

ROOFTOP STAFF & ALUMS AT SXSW ’08

ROOFTOP STAFF & ALUMS AT SXSW ’08

A lot has been written about the South by Southwest Film Festival