10 Short Documentaries Under 10 minutes By Recent University of Texas Graduates.

10 Under 10
May 13 @ 7 PM
Alamo Downtown (320 E 6th Street)
COST: $4 for AFS Members and UT Students with valid ID / $6 all others

Filmmakers in attendance for Q&A.

Films / Filmmakers:
VITULA ARCUS (Ben Slamka & Tomasz Werner)
Through this beautifully filmed doc we see the cutting of the wood, the carving of the traditional openings, and the careful application of stains for each unique violin.

SQUEEZED OUT OF BUSINESS (Chithra Jeyaram)
I drank Austin’s own freshly bottled “Good Flow Juice” for years and was shocked to discover that the family-run company had been closed down by the FDA for not being pasteurized.

Nine.5NINE.5 (Keith Wilson)
According to Keith Wilson’s playful and informative documentary, the world’s first home movie camera was created, not by Kodak in the US, but by Charles Pathe in France. And the format wasn’t 16mm or even 8mm (much less super-8), but 9.5mm (achieved by splitting 35mm reels into three strips and placing the necessary sprocket holes not on the side – no room – but in between the frames).

EXILED IN AMERICA (Angela Torres Camarena)
In May 2007 Sergia Santibañez was deported to Mexico. She was a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States with a green card which permitted her to work. She had been in the US for 25 years and through the deportation was separated from her five children (ranging in age from 14 to 24).

COCKROACH PROJECT (Ruth Fertig)
Definitely not a film for the squeamish or “roachaphobic,” but then that is the whole point of this jointly humorous/soul shuddering film.

GREATGRANDMAMA FOR OBAMA (Micah Barber)
In 1962 Bertha Means began what would become a long-term involvement in civil rights activism in Austin.

LOCOMOTION (Russell Bush & Allen Ho)
Magically evocative of KOYAANISQATSI (1982), “Locomotion” presents a montage of images of people on the run – walking, crossing streets, and running on a treadmill (in a style reminiscent of Muybridge’s motion studies of the animal and human figure in the 1870s and 1880s).

DIFFERENT SPOKES (Gideon de Villers)

BARELY LEGAL (Alfredo Lopez)

A LIFETIME IN REPAIR (Todd Thompson)

Event presented by the Austin Film Society, University of Texas Documentary Center, and UT RTF Department.

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