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When the music of Cline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the eleven-time Oscar-winning film Titanic, you get TITANQUE, a musical celebration that turns one of the greatest love stories of all time into a hysterical and joyful slay-fest.
Featuring powerhouse voices and show-stopping numbers (plus, contemporary pop culture and punchy odes to the 90s film), TITANIQUE is a one-of-a-kind musical voyage bursting with nostalgia and heart.
Marcus Antonio is excited to be making his Off-Broadway debut! Regional: Aida (Weathervane Playhouse). Born and raised in Atlanta, he gives many thanks to his family in Georgia for their endless support. Shoutout to the Telsey Office, Dave Secor, and the whole Titanique team. ? Insta: @marcus.antonio_
Marla Mindelle can be seen as Olivia on the Emmy-nominated Netflix series, Special. She received an Outer Critics Circle Nomination for her portrayal of Sister Mary Robert in the original Broadway company of Sister Act. Other Broadway/National Tour credits include Stepsister Gabrielle in the original Broadway company of Cinderella, South Pacific and Kitty in The Drowsy Chaperone. Her musical feature film screenplay, The Big Gay Jamboree, was recently sold to Paramount Pictures and will be produced by Academy Award-nominated actress Margot Robbie. Website: marlamindelle.com Instagram: @marlamindelle
Specializes in creating immersive physical landscapes and large-scale site-specific installations for performers and audiences to inhabit. Partner and Co-Founder of Iron Bloom Creative Production. Founder and Resident Designer of Woodshed Collective. Selected Credits: KPOP, Row at the Clark Art Institute (WTF), Nevermore Park (Hebru Brantley / MWM), Sweeney Todd at Barrow Street, Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective), Queen of the Night (VWW), The Tenant (Woodshed Collective), The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective).
is a New York-based sound designer for musicals and plays. NYC: A Burning Church (The New Ohio Theatre), The Conversationalists (The Bushwick Starr), The Golden Spike (BRIC Arts), On This Side of the World (Access Theatre), American Morning (Prospect Theatre Company). Eh Da? (NYTW Next Door), PharmaBro (Players Theatre). Regional: A Night with Janis Joplin (Le Petit Theatre, New Orleans); Pillowtalk (Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago); SeaWife (White Heron Theatre, Nantucket). www.lawrenceschober.com
Paige Seber is a lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, and musicbased in New York City. Her work has been seen onstage at Minetta Lane, The Joyce, RouletteIntermedium,The Skirball Center, The Wild Project, Riverside Theatre, Dixon Place, SymphonySpace, and The Flea. Paige is a proud member of Song Session Collective and United ScenicArtists 829. For more about her work visit seberlighting.com
Yoonah Oh is one of the most in-demand composers, pianists, music directors and arrangers in the US and South Korea. Yoonah holds a B.M. in Composition(Classical) at Hanyang University(South Korea) and Diploma in Jazz Composition and Piano Performance at Berklee College of Music(Boston, MA). She performed at many notable venues such as Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall and Berklee Performance Centre. Also, Yoonah has extensive recording experience with different world-renowned artists.
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AFS is also honored to host SXSW Film programming as a satellite venue this year. All screenings are General Admission, and seating is subject to capacity (and will occur on a priority basis approximately 30 minutes before the screening starts). Attendees are advised to arrive as early as 60 minutes prior to the screening.
Hammad Rizvi is an award-winning writer and director based in Texas. As a Pakistani-American and Third Culture Kid, his films often showcase stories that are as diverse as they are raw. He is best recognized for his films RANI (Hulu, NBCUniversal Short Film Festival), ROAD TO PESHAWAR (Palm Springs Shortfest), and SUNNY SQUARE (Houston Worldfest). Hammad received his MFA from UT-Austin, is currently developing his first feature film, and has yet to find a cure for the travel bug.
Dr. Ariel Leslie is a native of the DFW metroplex. Upon graduation from Plano East Senior High, she attended Texas Southern University in Houston, TX where she obtained a BS in Mathematics and Health Studies. Dr. Leslie then received her doctoral degree of University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, TX in December of 2019. She studied and published in the area of computational/mathematical neuroscience. While in graduate school, she was one of eleven National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation scholars. Dr. Leslie obtained awards for her research and teaching abilities. She is currently a Data and Metrics Analyst at Lockheed Martin, a defense company. Dr. Leslie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, volunteering, and teaching children all about STEM. Sharing crucial information about education and helping others is her true life passion.
Lucy Kerr is a filmmaker and artist working through performance and video based in Houston and upstate New York. She received a dual MFA in Film/Video and Art from California Institute of the Arts on the Lillian Disney Scholarship. Kerr received a B.A in Philosophy and a B.A. in Dance and Choreography from The University of Texas at Austin and was the grand prize winner of the University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence. Her projects have been presented by FIDMarseille, San Sebastian International Film Festival, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, La Mama, REDCAT, Anthology Film Archives, The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, The MATCH Houston, and others. She was selected to participate in FIDLab 2022, where she won the AirFrance Prize for her film, THE CHRISTMAS CARD, and she received a Travel Grant from Austin Film Society in 2021.
Huay-Bing Law is a Taiwanese American director and cinematographer born and raised in Houston, TX. His narrative and documentary films often center on marginalized Asian American stories in the south, and have earned an HBO APA Visionary Award, Princess Grace Award, and played in festivals worldwide. Huay currently resides in Austin, where he lectures at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University while developing his first feature film.
Sam Mohney is a Chinese-American director and cinematographer based in Austin, TX. He holds a BA with Honors in Film Studies from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin, where he met collaborator and filmmaking partner Huay-Bing Law. He currently lectures at Texas State University.
Alexis Franco was born on November 21, 1975. He lives and works in the United States. In his two careers, Cinema and Architecture, he has participated in a selection of projects with worldwide recognition. He was involved in movies like: THE PASSAGE, LOW TIDE, STOP THE POUNDING HEART, THE OTHER SIDE, and WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? where he worked with the renowned Film Director Roberto Minervini as his Assistant Director. All the films toured the world with premieres at important festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Argentina, New York, Germany, Spain, etc. He also worked on a documentary in CUBA: EL QUIJOTE DEL CARIBE and eventually was involved as Executive Producer of the film DIRTY FEATHERS which had its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. He studied music at the American Musical Institute where he obtained the titles of Professor of Music. As an Architect in the United States, he became an international member of the American Institute of Architects. In Houston Texas he works at Collaborative Designworks. Alexis designed and participated in many projects that were awarded and recognized state and nationally. Now he is producing a film in Japan and working on his first two films as a director, WHERE THE TREES BEAR MEAT and PERMEABLE PRISONS, in Argentina, Spain, United States, and Portugal.
Malin Kan is a film programmer based in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA from the University of California, Los Angeles in Moving Image Archive Studies. She is currently Senior Programmer, Feature Films, with AFI Festivals at the American Film Institute, where she has been since 2016.
Back in October 2019, we were privileged to host director Agnieszka Holland for a screening of EUROPA, EUROPA (1990), her brilliant account of the absurdities of fascism and war. With Criterion Channel adding it to their lineup just last week, we thought you might want to follow up your viewing of that with this Q&A. Watch the Q&A below or listen to it as a podcast.
This moving film was the perfect mixture of heart-warming and funny. A touching story with excellent writing and acting. You leave this movie feeling warm and fuzzy. Shia Labeouf and Zack Gottsagen are an awesome pair.
This. Film. Director Bong Joon-ho continues to captivate through his layered storytelling that speaks volumes to modern culture and elitism. He does it with humor, love, fear, and every other human emotion and it took me on a crazy ride!
This beautiful restoration of the rare documentary covering the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant was such a highlight of my year in film. An amazing snapshot of early drag culture in NYC, with a scene-stealing Crystal LaBeija (who later starred in PARIS IS BURNING) showing us she was already ICONIC in the 60s. Live performances by local drag legends Mandy Quinn and Colleen DeForest before the film made this a night to remember at AFS.
Julien Elie is a Montreal-based filmmaker who has spent more than 20 years getting to know the people and culture of Mexico. During that time, his shock at reading about killings of women in northern Mexico got him thinking about making a film. The result is the monochrome documentary Dark Suns chronicling the devastation of decades of murders and disappearances perpetrated by drug cartels in that country. The film closed the 2019 edition of Doc Days. The following is an edited transcript of an interview by festival co-programmer Todd Savage.
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