Celebrate the creative work of St James’ members Marci Henna, Fred Miller and John Langmore at the Austin Film Festival and the Texas Book Festival, and join us for a special screening (details below).
At the Austin Film Festival:
When We Last Spoke, produced by Fred Miller, based on a book by Marci Henna
Complications arise when a wacky great-grandmother (Cloris Leachman) joins the family.
A 1967 Vietnam-era coming-of-age story with quirky characters, love, life lessons, family, and forgiveness.
Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/328887889
Special invitation: St. James’ members can reserve a complimentary ticket for a showing of When We Last Spoke at the Austin Film Festival!
Screening Sunday October 27 at 12:15 at the Rollins Theater at the Long Center Reserve your ticket here: Sunday Oct 27 Screening Screening Monday October 28 at 3:15 at Galaxy Highland:
Reserve your ticket here: Monday Oct 28 Screening
Cowboys, by John Langmore and Bud Force
Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, this feature documentary offers the opportunity to ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America’s largest and most remote cattle ranches. Cowboys documents the lives of the men and women working on “big outfit” cattle ranches – some of which are over one million acres – and still require a crew of horseback workers to tend large herds of cattle. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/355390888
Screenings on Friday, Oct 25th at 7:30pm and Tuesday October 29th at 1 pm. More information at austinfilmfestival.com
At The Texas Book Festival:
Fault Lines: Portraits of East Austin
Book description: East Austin, just across Interstate 35 from Austin, Texas’s capital city, is a historically working-class neighborhood that in recent years has become an arts district and hotbed for real estate developers targeting a young urban population. The shops and restaurants that for decades served Latino and African American residents are being crowded out by coffee shops, cocktail bars, and upscale condos hoping to attract newer residents. The resulting tensions, part of a trend debated in cities across the country, have received national media attention.
After years of observing the fragmentation of east Austin’s Latino and African American communities, photographer John Langmore began to chronicle the historic neighborhood and its residents. His aim was to capture the gentrifying neighborhood’s unique nature and to make Texans aware of the people and places negatively affected by the state’s growth.
Fault Lines features more than a hundred color and black-and-white photographs taken between 2006 and 2011, during which timeLangmore was fully aware that the window for capturing the east Austin community was rapidly closing. Indeed today many of the neighborhood places, and even the people, have been lost to development and increasing rents and property taxes.
The book features a foreword by Michael King, a longtime political reporter for the Austin Chronicle; essays by east Austin resident Wilhelmina Delco, Austin’s first African American elected official and a ten-term member of the Texas House of Representatives, and Johnny Limón, a sixty-six-year resident of east Austin and a prominent member of the neighborhood’s Latino community; and an epilogue by Langmore.
