Screening: Allison Anders’ Gas Food Lodging

Before the Austin Film Society announces their Texas Film Production Fund grants tomorrow, they’ve got a gift for the rest of us: A screening of Gas Food Lodging with director Allison Anders in attendance at The Alamo.

Anders brings a strong woman’s voice and vision to independents that have been praised for their unapologetic and gritty truth. Named a Nicholl Fellow in its inaugural year, she has written and directed standout indie features, Mi Vida Loca, Things Behind The Sun, Sugar Town, Grace of My Heart , and was one of four writer/directors -- along with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino -- to direct a segment of Four Rooms. Trademark of her work are resilient and remarkable women as well as notable and enviable music soundtracks.

Gas Food Lodging is the adaptation of Richard Peck’s novel Don’t Look and It Won’t Hurt, the story of a single mother raising two diametric-opposite teenage girls in the beautiful, but isolative New Mexico desert. Anders was awarded a New York Film Critics Circle Best New Director award for this film, and one of its stars, Fairuza Balk won an Independent Film Award for her performance.

Allison Anders’ Gas Food Lodging
Tonight, 9:45 pm
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Free
For more info: Austin Film Society

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