Win Free Tickets to TFPF Recipient and Independent Spirit Award Winner Laura Dunn’s “The Unforeseen” Opening in Austin this Friday, March 28th
THE UNFORESEEN, the critically acclaimed, Independent Spirit Award winning documentary from Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund recipient Laura Dunn opens at the Alamo South Lamar Cinema on March 28th. (Win Tickets for screening with Q&A!)
From executive producers Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, THE UNFORESEEN is a tale of personal hopes, victories and failures; a series of debates over land, economics, property rights and the public good; a meditation on the exchange of our irreplaceable natural resources for an often fleeting American dream.
How To Win Tickets:
We are giving away 2 pair of tickets to the 7:15pm screening on Friday, March 28th.
Current AFS members can enter the random drawing by sending an email to: afs-communications@austinfilm.org
Winners will be drawn from all entries received by noon on Thursday, March 27th.
Film Synopsis:
An ambitious west Texas farm boy with grandiose plans tires of living at the mercy of nature and sets out to find a life with more control. He heads to Austin where he becomes a real estate developer and skillfully capitalizes on the growth of this 1970s boomtown. At the peak of his powers, he transforms 4,000 acres of pristine Hill Country into one of the state’s largest and fastest selling subdivisions. When the development threatens local treasure Barton Springs, a fragile limestone aquifer and a naturally spring-fed swimming hole, the community fights back.
About The Filmmaker:
Laura Dunn started making documentaries in response to her undergraduate experience at Yale University. Through a chronicle of labor strikes on campus, THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION (1999) examines the corporatization of higher education. She then returned to her birthplace to make GREEN (2000), a sobering look at environmental racism along the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor, a.k.a. “Cancer Alley,” a film which received a grant from the Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund.
Laura Dunn and others from the film will be in attendance for a Q&A after the Friday night screening!
WATCH THE TRAILER FOR “THE UNFORSEEN” BELOW:
