An Interview with the makers of Infinity Baby
2017: The Weinstein’s, Toback’s, Spacey’s, C.K’s, Affleck’s, and Hoffman’s of the film world have, for the first time, been ousted from their Hollywood havens and floated down an assembly line into the best short-term rehab facilities movie money can buy.
The effect is all encompassing, not just for filmmakers & entertainers, but for politicians (George H.W Bush, Al Franken), and the civilians who consume them, too. The influence is so sweeping that, come the 40th Denver Film Festival, a Toback story derailed an interview organized between the cast and crew of the feature film Infinity Baby, that was held in a small corner of the city’s Civic Center.
In attendance: Infinity Baby’s director Bob Byington (7 Chinese Brothers, Harmony & Me), its writer Onur Tukel (Catfight, The Misogynists), and its star Trieste Kelly Dunn (Banshee,...
2017: The Weinstein’s, Toback’s, Spacey’s, C.K’s, Affleck’s, and Hoffman’s of the film world have, for the first time, been ousted from their Hollywood havens and floated down an assembly line into the best short-term rehab facilities movie money can buy.
The effect is all encompassing, not just for filmmakers & entertainers, but for politicians (George H.W Bush, Al Franken), and the civilians who consume them, too. The influence is so sweeping that, come the 40th Denver Film Festival, a Toback story derailed an interview organized between the cast and crew of the feature film Infinity Baby, that was held in a small corner of the city’s Civic Center.
In attendance: Infinity Baby’s director Bob Byington (7 Chinese Brothers, Harmony & Me), its writer Onur Tukel (Catfight, The Misogynists), and its star Trieste Kelly Dunn (Banshee,...
- 11/16/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Aaron Hunt)
- Cinelinx
[Editors Note: Project of the Day is presented in partnership with BlackMagic Design, one of the world's leading innovators and manufacturers of creative video technology.] Here's your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress -- at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. The Day Before the Wedding Logline: "The Day Before The Wedding" is a comedy horror about deer hunting in the Colorado Mountains gone horribly wrong...and inevitably losing your friends once you decide to get married. Elevator Pitch: "The Day Before The Wedding" is the first film that Geoff Marslett ("Mars," "Loves Her Gun," "Yakona") is making since moving up to the Colorado mountains. It features a cast including Jennifer Prediger, Frank Mosley, Kira Pearson and Geoff. Though it's really a giant analogy...
- 11/25/2015
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
SXSW Regular Geoff Marslett (Monkey Vs Robot, Mars, Loves Her Gun) is crowdfunding his latest film 'The Day Before Wedding", a film that starts out like your usual indie mumblecore and escalates into something shockingly different. You can visit the Indiegogo page here for more information. Every dollar helps!
"The Day Before The Wedding is director Geoff Marslett's first thriller. It is a short film set in and shot on location in and around Denver, Colorado. Geoff recently relocated from Austin, Texas, to Colorado with hopes of bringing his experience making localized independent films here to a new and exciting artistic community.
The film stars Marslett along with Frank Mosley (Upstream Color, Ain't Them Bodies Saints), Jennifer Prediger (A Teacher, Apartment Troubles, Uncle Kent) and Kira Pearson (The Greggs). The film itself is a comedic horror set in the woods of Colorado. It is a surreal look at the...
"The Day Before The Wedding is director Geoff Marslett's first thriller. It is a short film set in and shot on location in and around Denver, Colorado. Geoff recently relocated from Austin, Texas, to Colorado with hopes of bringing his experience making localized independent films here to a new and exciting artistic community.
The film stars Marslett along with Frank Mosley (Upstream Color, Ain't Them Bodies Saints), Jennifer Prediger (A Teacher, Apartment Troubles, Uncle Kent) and Kira Pearson (The Greggs). The film itself is a comedic horror set in the woods of Colorado. It is a surreal look at the...
- 11/10/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Aaron Hunt)
- Cinelinx
Arlo (Alex Dobrenko, Hell No) and Julie (Ashley Spillers, Loves Her Gun) are your typical young twentysomething Austinites. Arlo works at a software company but writes historical articles about General Grant on the side. Julie is a waitress at a restaurant that looks like Eastside Cafe. They live, love and get by in a fourplex on W. 29th. One day, Julie receives a couple of puzzle pieces in the mail.
Such is the premise for director Steve Mims' adorable mystery-comedy Arlo and Julie. Filmed around Austin -- and on a soundstage at Ut's Rtf department -- this movie is a quirky look at obsession. As Julie and Arlo become more and more engrossed in this puzzle of puzzles, their lives and goals are ignored. The script, which Mims also wrote, is filled with laughs and bits of Civil War trivia.
Old jazzy numbers punctuate scenes of Julie and Arlo...
Such is the premise for director Steve Mims' adorable mystery-comedy Arlo and Julie. Filmed around Austin -- and on a soundstage at Ut's Rtf department -- this movie is a quirky look at obsession. As Julie and Arlo become more and more engrossed in this puzzle of puzzles, their lives and goals are ignored. The script, which Mims also wrote, is filled with laughs and bits of Civil War trivia.
Old jazzy numbers punctuate scenes of Julie and Arlo...
- 3/18/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
The South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) has starry names and premieres films that go on to win Academy Awards (“The Hurt Locker,” anyone?), but it also includes what has quickly become one of the fest’s most endearing features: the prefilm bumpers. Consider them the 30-second to two-minute appetizer before the entrée. From character-driven narratives to abstract, metaphorical shorts, directors Joe Nicolosi and David Lowery, and actor-director Geoff Marslett, all take different approaches to giving audiences made up of fans and professionals something to sink their teeth into. “If you act in one of these bumpers, you’ve essentially made an acting reel that’s going to play in front of every single independent filmmaker for 10 days,” says Marslett, who will be returning this year, as an actor, in “Yakona.” He saw his practically nonexistent acting career jump-started after playing a “Theater Bum” in a bumper directed by Nicolosi. In...
- 3/7/2014
- backstage.com
Geoff Marslet's "Loves Her Gun" was a talking point out of last year's SXSW, not only because it centers around violence and gun control, but because the improvised dialogue makes for a naturalistic portrait of a woman's progression from victim to aggressor. She's well-played by Trieste Kelly Dunn, who broke out in SXSW 2010's "Cold Weather" and went on to star in Cinemax's "Banshee." The story starts off with a random act of violence in NYC before a road-trek to Austin, Texas, where the majority of the drama unfolds, complete with hipster band, mustache and river tubing with beer. Dunn talks about making "Loves Her Gun," the state of indie film, and the filmmakers she's hungry to work with. "Loves Her Gun" opens January 10, 2014. Sophia Savage: I saw you in "Cold Weather" back in 2011. How have things changed since that film premiered at SXSW, and how did you get connected...
- 1/8/2014
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
It's like bad luck is following me," Allie (Trieste Kelly Dunn) says midway through Loves Her Gun, and you may be inclined to believe her.
Geoff Marslett's film starts with the Brooklynite getting mugged by two men in animal masks just blocks from her apartment. Feeling spontaneous — as well as a little traumatized — she then absconds to Austin with a band on tour, one of whose cars gets broken into shortly after their return to the Lone Star State.
The fallout from Allie's mugging can be seen most visibly in the shiner on her face, but the growing unease that keeps her awake at night and on edge throughout the day is a tension Dunn suggests in every gesture and clipped response.
Though the film is generally sedate for its first hour-plus, s...
Geoff Marslett's film starts with the Brooklynite getting mugged by two men in animal masks just blocks from her apartment. Feeling spontaneous — as well as a little traumatized — she then absconds to Austin with a band on tour, one of whose cars gets broken into shortly after their return to the Lone Star State.
The fallout from Allie's mugging can be seen most visibly in the shiner on her face, but the growing unease that keeps her awake at night and on edge throughout the day is a tension Dunn suggests in every gesture and clipped response.
Though the film is generally sedate for its first hour-plus, s...
- 1/7/2014
- Village Voice
Here's the latest Austin and Texas film news.
Scott Harris, Ut Radio-Television-Film alumnus and two-time Austin Film Society Grant (formerly the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund) recipient, will screen his debut feature-length documentary, Being Ginger, at 7:30 pm next Monday at AMC Barton Creek in Austin through Tugg. A Q&A with Harris will follow the screening. The documentary, about one redhead's attempt to regain self-confidence by going on a quest to find a woman, was made during Harris's time studying at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Meanwhile, out in Fredericksburg, the town's lone movie theater reopened last month. More than a year after the Stagecoach Theater closed, the Fredericksburg Standard reports that the rebranded independent theater Fritztown Cinema will have a small pizzeria and a beer/wine bar. Fritztown has partnered with the Hill Country Film Festival for a free Indie Screening Series, beginning next Wednesday night. This debut...
Scott Harris, Ut Radio-Television-Film alumnus and two-time Austin Film Society Grant (formerly the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund) recipient, will screen his debut feature-length documentary, Being Ginger, at 7:30 pm next Monday at AMC Barton Creek in Austin through Tugg. A Q&A with Harris will follow the screening. The documentary, about one redhead's attempt to regain self-confidence by going on a quest to find a woman, was made during Harris's time studying at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Meanwhile, out in Fredericksburg, the town's lone movie theater reopened last month. More than a year after the Stagecoach Theater closed, the Fredericksburg Standard reports that the rebranded independent theater Fritztown Cinema will have a small pizzeria and a beer/wine bar. Fritztown has partnered with the Hill Country Film Festival for a free Indie Screening Series, beginning next Wednesday night. This debut...
- 1/6/2014
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers, actors and/or actresses? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read this months’ pick), we asked Trieste Kelly Dunn the incredibly arduous task of identifying her top ten favorite films of all time (she picked ten and added television series). Dunn recently appeared in the SXSW preemed Loves Her Gun by helmer Geoff Marslett out this Friday [01.10] in New York City for a one week run and currently stars on television’s Banshee. Here is Trieste Kelly Dunn’s Top Ten Films of All Time List.
A Streetcar Named Desire – Elia Kazan (1951)
“Tennessee Williams, Brando, Kazan, what is not to love. It’s like watching exotic animals.”
Adaptation – Spike Jonze (2002)
“It’s so original and hilarious and true. When I saw it in the theatre people around me probably thought I was on drugs.
A Streetcar Named Desire – Elia Kazan (1951)
“Tennessee Williams, Brando, Kazan, what is not to love. It’s like watching exotic animals.”
Adaptation – Spike Jonze (2002)
“It’s so original and hilarious and true. When I saw it in the theatre people around me probably thought I was on drugs.
- 1/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
We’re finally back for the latest installment in our favorite profile series. Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema and more often than not, we feature a personality from the American indie film. We switched things up for January, inviting actress Trieste Kelly Dunn (who we saw for the first time in Paul Greengrass’s United 93, first heard of her in the pages of Filmmaker Magazine, and first discovered in Aaron Katz’s Cold Weather) to discuss her early rapport with cinema, her motivations for getting into acting and finally, a set of questions on the SXSW preemed Loves Her Gun (opens this Friday [01.10] for a one week run. As usual, we ask the profiled person to include their personal top ten. So here’s our profile on Trieste and make sure to check out her current...
- 1/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Welcome to Holiday Favorites, a series in which Slackerwood contributors and our friends talk about the movies we watch during the holiday season, holiday-related or otherwise.
It's a Wonderful Life is a popular pick this year! Austin actress Heather Kafka (Kid-Thing, Loves Her Gun) writes about what the 1946 film means to her.
"Is he sick?"
"No, worse, he's discouraged."
I remember walking into my parents' living room one day and an old movie was on. I don't remember how old I was but I do remember feeling like the TV was talking to me. I've tuned in every year since that day. It's a Wonderful Life never ever Never gets old. I feel and see something new in it every single time.
Sure, I could mention all the obvious things like the acting, the story, the comedy ... the swimming pool in the floor, the missing $8,000, ZuZu's petals ... Jimmy Stewart running...
It's a Wonderful Life is a popular pick this year! Austin actress Heather Kafka (Kid-Thing, Loves Her Gun) writes about what the 1946 film means to her.
"Is he sick?"
"No, worse, he's discouraged."
I remember walking into my parents' living room one day and an old movie was on. I don't remember how old I was but I do remember feeling like the TV was talking to me. I've tuned in every year since that day. It's a Wonderful Life never ever Never gets old. I feel and see something new in it every single time.
Sure, I could mention all the obvious things like the acting, the story, the comedy ... the swimming pool in the floor, the missing $8,000, ZuZu's petals ... Jimmy Stewart running...
- 12/12/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
One of the made-in-Austin films having its premiere at this year's Austin Film Festival is Dear Sidewalk, a romantic comedy about a mail carrier (Joseph Mazzello, Jurassic Park, Justified) who falls for an older divorcee (Michelle Forbes, True Blood, The Killing). Also featured in the cast is one Ashley Spillers, who has acted in many buzzworthy local films of late (The Bounceback, Pit Stop, Loves Her Gun) and even appears in the viral short Hell No.
The former Austinite also stars in the horror-comedy Saturday Morning Massacre (aka Saturday Morning Mystery if you are buying it at Wal-Mart), which screens at the Housecore Horror Film Festival on, appropriately enough, Saturday morning.
Before Austin Film Festival started up, Spillers took part in this email interview for us.
Slackerwood: How did you come to be involved in Dear Sidewalk?
Ashley Spillers: Well, I auditioned! Beth Sepko was casting and she called...
The former Austinite also stars in the horror-comedy Saturday Morning Massacre (aka Saturday Morning Mystery if you are buying it at Wal-Mart), which screens at the Housecore Horror Film Festival on, appropriately enough, Saturday morning.
Before Austin Film Festival started up, Spillers took part in this email interview for us.
Slackerwood: How did you come to be involved in Dear Sidewalk?
Ashley Spillers: Well, I auditioned! Beth Sepko was casting and she called...
- 10/23/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
The 6th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival might be beginning on the unluckiest day of the year — Friday the 13th — but the residents of Tucson are lucky for this 9-night extravaganza of wild and wooly cinema from all over the globe. The fest runs Sept. 13-21 at The Screening Room and other locations.
Opening Night films include the retro, music-fueled slasher flick Discopath by Renaud Gauthier and the Internet-based bloodbath Truth Or Dare, directed by scream queen Jessica Cameron making her filmmaking debut. The last film of the fest on the 21st is the cryptic post-apocalyptic thriller Dust of War, directed by Andrew Kightlinger.
The rest of the fest includes mind-bending fiction flicks like the cult-ish Fateful Findings by Neil Breen; the 90-minute, one-shot noir Worm by Andrew Bowser; Zach Clark’s twisted holiday movie White Reindeer; Drew Tobia’s surreal See You Next Tuesday; as well as challenging documentaries...
Opening Night films include the retro, music-fueled slasher flick Discopath by Renaud Gauthier and the Internet-based bloodbath Truth Or Dare, directed by scream queen Jessica Cameron making her filmmaking debut. The last film of the fest on the 21st is the cryptic post-apocalyptic thriller Dust of War, directed by Andrew Kightlinger.
The rest of the fest includes mind-bending fiction flicks like the cult-ish Fateful Findings by Neil Breen; the 90-minute, one-shot noir Worm by Andrew Bowser; Zach Clark’s twisted holiday movie White Reindeer; Drew Tobia’s surreal See You Next Tuesday; as well as challenging documentaries...
- 9/13/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas is truly a unique festival and 2013 was my first full experience despite living here for the past few years. You’ll hear the horror stories of long lines, tough venue locations, overpriced concessions, and the traffic, oh the traffic. Fortunately there are more positives than negatives thanks to the amazing opportunities afforded by a film festival with such a vast range of genre, excellent weather and tacos.
We had the opportunity to see movies about magicians, horror remakes, Disney actresses snorting cocaine off naked bodies, documentaries about punk bands, a Big Ass Spider, and the new Shane Carruth flick which I am still processing. That’s just a taste of what this year’s lineup offered. It’d be a little difficult to only showcase seven films from an overall excellent year, so I’ve taken the Top 7 Most Memorable Moments of SXSW 2013 whether it be trends,...
We had the opportunity to see movies about magicians, horror remakes, Disney actresses snorting cocaine off naked bodies, documentaries about punk bands, a Big Ass Spider, and the new Shane Carruth flick which I am still processing. That’s just a taste of what this year’s lineup offered. It’d be a little difficult to only showcase seven films from an overall excellent year, so I’ve taken the Top 7 Most Memorable Moments of SXSW 2013 whether it be trends,...
- 3/26/2013
- by Tyler Mager
- The Scorecard Review
Title: Loves Her Gun Screened At: SXSW 2013 Directed By: Geoff Marslett Starring: Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ashley Spillers, Francisco Barreiro, Jennymarie Jemison, John Merriman, Chris Doubek Similar to real life, “Loves Her Gun” has its more profound moments and its duller ones, but Trieste Kelly Dunn gives the lead character everything she’s got, giving the film as a whole the best possible chance of holding your attention through to the bold, unforgettable finale. After a vicious mugging in Brooklyn, Allie (Trieste Kelly Dunn) decides her best chance of putting the incident behind her is by escaping. She hitches a ride with an Austin-based band and is starting a new life [ Read More ]
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- 3/16/2013
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
The best stories of the week from Toh! SXSW: Review: In Lovely and Devastating Narrative Spotlight Entry "Good Night," No One Goes Gently Review: Gorgeous, Meditative "The Retrieval," Starring Jury Award Winner Tishuan Scott (Clip) Review Update: Christopher Abbott of "Girls" and Gaby Hoffmann Lead Jury Award Winning Ensemble Cast in "Burma" "Bellflower" Producer Granshaw Talks Directorial Debut "Coldwater" "Loves Her Gun" Star Trieste Kelly Dunn Talks Improv, Roadtripping and Directors Destin Cretton Talks Grand Jury Winner "Short Term 12," Immaturity and the Mystery of Indie Film's Future Interviews: Tina Fey Talks Her Post-"30 Rock" Career, "Admission" and Oscar Hosting Alex Gibney Talks Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and New Doc "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks" (Exclusive Video) Television: SXSW 2013: "Bates Motel" Preview a Few Cuts Under Its Pre-"Psycho" Potential News: "Girls" Creator Lena Dunham Poses for Playboy and Answers Twenty...
- 3/15/2013
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
As though being front and center in a film from beginning to end isn’t challenging enough, “Loves Her Gun” star Trieste Kelly Dunn filmed every single scene of the SXSW selection with nothing more than a story outline. Her character Allie lives in Brooklyn, but after a vicious mugging, she makes the split second decision to relocate to Austin, Texas. Her lifestyle is unstable at first, sleeping on couches and mooching off new friends, but even once she secures a job and starts building serious relationships, Allie still can’t shake the memory of the attack. When alcohol and pills don’t help her sleep through the night, she decides the only [ Read More ]
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- 3/14/2013
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
Yeah, she loves her gun all right.
Well, not really the gun itself. What the protagonist of Loves Her Gun really loves is the feeling of security and power a gun gives her. She sleeps better at night knowing it's there in case she needs it. She's no gun nut -- she's just wants to stop being afraid. Can't blame her for that, right?
Austin filmmaker Geoff Marslett has delivered a stunning new film with Loves Her Gun, a stylish and captivating mix of two genres: twentysomething angst-fueled indie drama and horrifically timely message film. Plenty of movies have shown us aimless young adults indulging in Austin's slacker milieu, but none do so as tragically as Loves Her Gun. The movie deservedly won the SXSW Louis Black Spirit of Texas Award earlier this week.
The woman who loves her gun is Allie (Trieste Kelly Dunn), a young Brooklynite with no...
Well, not really the gun itself. What the protagonist of Loves Her Gun really loves is the feeling of security and power a gun gives her. She sleeps better at night knowing it's there in case she needs it. She's no gun nut -- she's just wants to stop being afraid. Can't blame her for that, right?
Austin filmmaker Geoff Marslett has delivered a stunning new film with Loves Her Gun, a stylish and captivating mix of two genres: twentysomething angst-fueled indie drama and horrifically timely message film. Plenty of movies have shown us aimless young adults indulging in Austin's slacker milieu, but none do so as tragically as Loves Her Gun. The movie deservedly won the SXSW Louis Black Spirit of Texas Award earlier this week.
The woman who loves her gun is Allie (Trieste Kelly Dunn), a young Brooklynite with no...
- 3/14/2013
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
The South by Soutwest festival announced juried honors in narrative and documentary feature, short film, design, and special categories at an awards ceremony held tonight at the Paramount Theater in Austin. The Audience Award winners from the fest will be announced Saturday.
And the winners are: Narrative Feature
Grand Jury Winner: Short Term 12, directed by Deston Cretton
Special Jury Prize For Ensemble Cast: Burma
Documentary Feature
Grand Jury Winner: William And The Windmill
Short Film Jury Awards
Narrative Short: Ellen is Leaving, directed by Michelle Savill
Documentary Short: Slomo, directed by Josh Izenberg
Midnight Short: The Apocalypse, directed by...
And the winners are: Narrative Feature
Grand Jury Winner: Short Term 12, directed by Deston Cretton
Special Jury Prize For Ensemble Cast: Burma
Documentary Feature
Grand Jury Winner: William And The Windmill
Short Film Jury Awards
Narrative Short: Ellen is Leaving, directed by Michelle Savill
Documentary Short: Slomo, directed by Josh Izenberg
Midnight Short: The Apocalypse, directed by...
- 3/13/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
On this special episode of Shooting With John, we shoot M1911′s with Geoff Marslett and talk to the crew of Loves Her Gun about the role guns play in cinema. Check out Loves Her Gun this week at SXSW: Monday, March 11th 1:45Pm – 3:24Pm Topfer Theatre at Zach Tuesday, March 12th 11:15Am -12:54Pm SXSatellite: Alamo Village Friday, March 15th 4:00Pm – 5:39Pm Topfer Theatre at Zach...
- 3/11/2013
- by John Yost
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Could any film be more perfect for SXSW? Loves Her Gun has all the elements: a movie about a woman who travels from her home in Brooklyn to Austin aboard the bus of a novelty indie band, co-starring a man with an inventive mustache. Mix in a microbudget, a leading actress wearing her director's clothes and horse masks, and it may just set a record. Story: SXSW: 5 Narrative Films With Buzz Then again, the Trieste Kelly Dunn (Banshee) film isn't exactly ironic; it takes a funny and heartfelt look at a woman looking to free herself of a
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- 3/8/2013
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lena Dunham, Tom Cullen, Dree Hemingway and Julia Garner all came to Austin as relative unknowns and emerged as sought-after talents. With the 2013 edition of the SXSW Film Festival launching today, the springboard is loaded. Here's Indiewire's picks for the 10 actors to watch this year: Trieste Kelly Dunn, "Loves Her Gun" Best known for her work in the SXSW indie smash "Cold Weather,” which landed her on Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 new faces of independent list, Trieste Kelly Dunn is rumored to give an impressive lead turn in the hot-button drama "Loves Her Gun." The topical film from Goeff Marslett (known for the animated "Mars," which screened at SXSW in 2010, centers on a woman (Dunn) who flees New York after being attacked and finds herself in Austin where she becomes deeply embedded in Texas' gun culture. Dunn can currently be seen as a series regular in the new Alan Ball produced series "Banshee" for Cinemax.
- 3/8/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
The latest film from Austin director Geoff Marslett, Loves Her Gun, has its world premiere at SXSW, screening tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:30 pm at Violet Crown (screening info). Actress Trieste Kelly Dunn stars as Allie, a troubled woman who heads to Austin after surviving an attack in NYC.
Dunn herself is a native of Utah, attended North Carolina School for the Arts and is now a resident of Brooklyn. Before the rush of the film festival starts, she talked with us via email about getting to play a female character who isn't reasonable, going tubing in Texas, and more.
Slackerwood: What was your casting experience like for Loves Her Gun? How did you hear about the film?
Trieste Kelly Dunn: Geoff sent me a Facebook message about it. It sounded really exciting. Then he sent me an outline and I got even more excited. Then he said he wanted...
- 3/8/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
Filmmaker Geoff Marslett is a Texas native and "Loves Her Gun" is his second feature film. His previous feature, "Mars", was an animated sci-fi rom-com. He teaches at the University of Texas and plays in a karate rock band that is featured in his film. What it's about: Loves Her Gun is about Allie's response to fear. A gun changes her reactions from flight to fight, but will the weapon she uses to feel safe again cause more problems then it solves? On the role of guns in film: "Guns are shown as totally unrealistic and simultaneously glorified and vilified. In almost no cases are they portrayed as a small part of many american's everyday life. Since the events of our story take place around guns, we made sure to keep the portrayal as realistic as possible. The cast learned to safely use the firearms and (with the exception of...
- 3/4/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Austin-based actress Heather Kafka shows up in features Pit Stop, The Bounceback, Loves Her Gun, When Angels Sing, and short Black Metal which are all screening at SXSW next month. Let's just say that if you see a film with local ties during the festival, there's about a 75% chance that Kafka will be in it. You might have seen her previously in locally made movies like Lovers of Hate, Saturday Morning Massacre, Slacker 2011 (pictured above) ... and she's the woman trying to buy from the Carl's Jr. kiosk in Idiocracy.
Kafka took some time to talk to us (via email) about working in the friendly Austin film community and taking on roles that her grandma shouldn't see.
Slackerwood: You appear in a number of the films showing at SXSW this year. How did you become involved with these film projects?
Heather Kafka: Sometimes I'm lucky. When I came back...
Kafka took some time to talk to us (via email) about working in the friendly Austin film community and taking on roles that her grandma shouldn't see.
Slackerwood: You appear in a number of the films showing at SXSW this year. How did you become involved with these film projects?
Heather Kafka: Sometimes I'm lucky. When I came back...
- 2/25/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
The feature-film selections for the 2013 SXSW Film Festival were announced last week and boy, are there a lot of movies with Austin connections on the program -- so many that we had to split this article in two! We'll start with the narrative feature films, and the second half will highlight the documentaries and "festival favorites." These lists don't include the short films or the midnight movies, which will be announced later today.
Headliners:
When Angels Sing -- Austin director Tim McCanlies' new film is based on a novel by Turk Pipkin (who also appears in the movie), wherein the main character has a troubled relationship with Christmas. Sometimes-Austinite Connie Britton stars as the wife, and the cast also includes Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Heather Kafka (who appears in four SXSW feature films this year), and the Red Headed Stranger himself! Elizabeth Avellan of Troublemaker Studios is one of the producers on this film,...
Headliners:
When Angels Sing -- Austin director Tim McCanlies' new film is based on a novel by Turk Pipkin (who also appears in the movie), wherein the main character has a troubled relationship with Christmas. Sometimes-Austinite Connie Britton stars as the wife, and the cast also includes Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Heather Kafka (who appears in four SXSW feature films this year), and the Red Headed Stranger himself! Elizabeth Avellan of Troublemaker Studios is one of the producers on this film,...
- 2/6/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
South by Southwest (SXSW) is just one of many film festivals, we here at Sound On Sight cover yearly. The fest, which takes place every spring in Austin, Texas, began in 1987, and has continued to grow in size every year. The fest announced the first wave of films back in early January, and the lineup included some highly anticipated films such as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Evil Dead, Downloaded and Spring Breakers. Now the full lineup has been announced, and it just might be one of the best lineups the festival has ever programmed.
SXSW takes place March 8-16 in Austin Texas. Here are just some of the films we are excited about.
Narrative Feature Competition – This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,191 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere.
Awful Nice
Director/Screenwriter: Todd Sklar, Screenwriter: Alex Rennie
Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when...
SXSW takes place March 8-16 in Austin Texas. Here are just some of the films we are excited about.
Narrative Feature Competition – This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,191 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere.
Awful Nice
Director/Screenwriter: Todd Sklar, Screenwriter: Alex Rennie
Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when...
- 2/1/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Ready, Set, Fund is a column about crowdfunding and related fundraising endeavors for Austin and Texas independent film projects.
Local director Geoff Marslett (Mars) has wrapped filming in Austin and New York City for his first live-action feature film, Loves Her Gun (pictured at top), which stars several familiar Austin actors including Chris Doubek, John Merriman, Ashley Rae Spillers (Saturday Morning Massacre), and Heather Kafka (Lovers of Hate). It's about a Brooklyn hipster who flees to Austin after she's been attacked. Funding for post-production work is still needed, so the filmmakers are running an Indiegogo campaign through Wednesday, December 5. Currently the only way to get DVDs of Marslett's film Mars is as a perk at the $25 backer level or higher. Marslett says that if the campaign meets its fundraising goal then Loves Her Gun is expected to screen in early 2013.
61 Bullets is a historical documentary project that centers around a famous assassination in 1935. U.
Local director Geoff Marslett (Mars) has wrapped filming in Austin and New York City for his first live-action feature film, Loves Her Gun (pictured at top), which stars several familiar Austin actors including Chris Doubek, John Merriman, Ashley Rae Spillers (Saturday Morning Massacre), and Heather Kafka (Lovers of Hate). It's about a Brooklyn hipster who flees to Austin after she's been attacked. Funding for post-production work is still needed, so the filmmakers are running an Indiegogo campaign through Wednesday, December 5. Currently the only way to get DVDs of Marslett's film Mars is as a perk at the $25 backer level or higher. Marslett says that if the campaign meets its fundraising goal then Loves Her Gun is expected to screen in early 2013.
61 Bullets is a historical documentary project that centers around a famous assassination in 1935. U.
- 11/13/2012
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Here's the latest Austin film news:
IndieWIRE has kicked off its interview series "Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers" with a pair of Austin filmmakers you might already know: Nathan and David Zellner. The interview has some interesting tidbits about their feature film Kid-Thing, which will premiere at the fest later this month.Local filmmaker/instructor Geoff Marslett's animated movie Mars, which played SXSW in 2010, is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. Read Jenn's review and her interview with Marslett about the film. Reactions to the movie, now that it's more widely available, inspired a thoughtful blog entry about indie films from Hipstercrite, aka Lauren Modery, Marslett's writing (Loves Her Gun) and romantic partner.SXSW Film Festival is trying a new method for selecting its encore screenings this year: input from you. This Tugg page has a list of past SXSW award winners that the fest may show again this year...
IndieWIRE has kicked off its interview series "Meet the 2012 Sundance Filmmakers" with a pair of Austin filmmakers you might already know: Nathan and David Zellner. The interview has some interesting tidbits about their feature film Kid-Thing, which will premiere at the fest later this month.Local filmmaker/instructor Geoff Marslett's animated movie Mars, which played SXSW in 2010, is now available on Netflix Watch Instantly. Read Jenn's review and her interview with Marslett about the film. Reactions to the movie, now that it's more widely available, inspired a thoughtful blog entry about indie films from Hipstercrite, aka Lauren Modery, Marslett's writing (Loves Her Gun) and romantic partner.SXSW Film Festival is trying a new method for selecting its encore screenings this year: input from you. This Tugg page has a list of past SXSW award winners that the fest may show again this year...
- 1/6/2012
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
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