Flatland Film Festival Highlights Local Culture

The Flatland Film Festival starts Oct. 6 and goes through the weekend, with multiple screenings of films with local connections. The festival is a celebration of Texas filmmaking. A short film screening on Friday night at Alamo Drafthouse includes films from nine local filmmakers. The feature programming block also includes films with local angles. Robert Peaslee, co-chair of the […]

Metropolis Elektro

  Last Friday in Kent Wilkinson’s Rock and Roll Media class, two very special guests graced the audience with their presences. Scott and Amy Faris are the brains behind the “Metropolis Elektro” musical composition. The husband and wife dynamic duo created the score over the period of a little more than eight months. “Metropolis Elektro” […]

Ben, I Like You

Adam Paul Stone was experiencing a typical Monday when he received a message from a Facebook friend congratulating him for an award he was unaware he had won. The day before, Stone had been the oblivious recipient of the Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Flatland Film Festival for the short film he directed, “Ben, […]

Chris Eska Promotes Film at Flatland Film Festival

He shot his thesis story in Japan for film school at the University of California, Los Angeles; one of his films has won an independent spirit award; and he’s currently promoting his newest movie across the world. Only one question comes to my mind when I look at this man’s life, ‘What am I doing […]

Keeping it (Mostly) Short At The Flatland Film Festival