Show notes
Thanksgiving is here and we're thankful for the filmmakers who make our home town of Austin, TX weird and wonderful. So this week, we're serving up a heaping helping of gratitude and indulging in a re-release of one of our favorite community episodes, EP09 - THE WATERING HOLE, LIVE FROM THE AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY. We recorded this one during SXSW at the annual Austin Film Society party. We're grateful to documentary filmmakers, the festivals that bring us all together, AFS for holding down the fort and for you—yes, you—who keep showing up to listen to a coupla turkeys. Most of all, we're grateful we get to do this together. So pull up a chair, loosen your belt, and feast on this Austin film family reunion. ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS: Drink up the scene like a local as Keith & Ben chat up their fellow Austinites (and a few out of town visitors) at the annual Austin Film Society Parking Lot Party at SXSW. This episode is a veritable smorgasbord of festival conversation including appearances by local filmmakers Cassie Hay, Tracy Frazier & Karen Skloss; festival programmers like Bart Weiss and James Faust; SXSW-premiering CREEDE, USA editor Andrew Saunderson; producer Mike Blizzard; and an AFS-appreciation conversation with CEO Rebecca Campbell. All that and a literal Rolls Royce car crash makes this bonus episode a unique peek into Austin's film community. 00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 00:59 Meeting Cassie Hay: A Filmmaking Journey 03:38 Tracy Frazier: From Documentaries to Gaming 06:39 Bart Weiss: The Evolution of Video Fest 11:56 Andrew Saunderson: Editing Creed USA 15:54 James Faust: Festival Highlights 16:16 Introduction to South by Southwest 16:53 Interview with James Faust 17:12 The State of Documentary Films 19:54 Challenges in the Film Industry 24:16 Rebecca Campbell on Austin Film Society 29:45 Mike Blizzard on Austin's Film Community 31:37 Karen Skloss on the Austin Film Society Party 34:22 Conclusion and Future Episodes