Big News for Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund Grantees
It’s been an exciting few months for our Filmmakers’ Fund Grantees. Join us in doing a little dance for them.
DVDs for GLORY AT SEA!
A quick update in the ongoing saga of Benh Zeitlin and “Glory at Sea!” You can read the backstory here, here, and here. Very nice posts were also written by The Austin Chronicle, Slamdance, and Spout. As I wrote earlier, Benh was unable to make it to very much at the festival, because of his […]
BLEEDING RUST: “GLORY AT SEA!” IN NEW ORLEANS
“Glory at Sea!” plays at SXSW in the Shorts 3 program on March 9, 11th and 14th, at the Alamo Lamar Cinemas. In the guidelines to the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund–the grants that Rooftop offers to filmmakers whose work has screened with us–we say “We are more likely to fund films that make the most of […]
ROOFTOP STAFF & ALUMS AT SXSW ’08
A lot has been written about the South by Southwest Film Festival and their support of the Austin film community and the “Mumblecore” movement. Personally, I love the idea of indie filmmakers bonding, working together, supporting each other. You can say that the importance of the those scenes is blown out of proportion, and that […]