Bayou City Film News

Recent Art Institute Graduate Glenn Challenger submitted the spot which if picked could air during next years Superbowl. Glenn's spot is called "Cut" and his team is Good Banana. The winners of the contest also take home a million dollar prize and get the chance to work with The Lonely Island Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. Houston's Art Institute has turned out some great, imaginative filmmakers and Glenn is proof positive of that trend. Good luck to Glenn and the Good Banana team. Check out his submission here. http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/?video=14583

The city of Houston celebrated cinema earlier this month. The 3rd annual Cinema Arts festival unspooled November 9th thru 13th, 2011 with 35+ events all over town. As usual with festivals you can't see everything since there are multiple screening at the same time and I still haven't figured out how to clone myself. So, the following is a wrap up of what I did get a chance to see. First up was the annual Texas Filmmakers Showcase. The Houston Film Commission seeks out the best short films made in Texas and the winners are first screened in Los Angeles. Notables from this years competition were Soham Mehta's, (in photo) "Fatakra," Bradley Jackson's "The Man Who Never Cried," which you can see below in a previous post and "LCD Soundsystem - Home" filmed by Houstonians Mark Armes and Rick Darge. Next up was "Echotone." Directed by Nathan Christ, the film takes it's viewer through what happens when Austin's music community...

Ralph Winston has never cried; not when he was a baby, not when his heart was crushed by his high school sweetheart, not even when he first saw Steven Spielberg's E.T. So when his father dies, Ralph - age 32 - decides to embark upon a true emotional journey with hopes to shed his first tear before the funeral - and before it's not too late. Winner of the 2010 Doorpost Film Project $100,000 grand prize and Audience Choice Award.