Texas Filmmakers' Fund Announces Winners

Since 1996, the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund has awarded cash and production services to "emerging film and video artists in the state of Texas... whose work shows promise, skill, and creativity." The Austin Film Society recently announced the winners of its 2006 Production Fund; the awards panel, led by indie film legend Allison Anders, supplied 18 hard-working Texas filmmakers with $125,000 in goods and services, the largest amount the TFPF has awarded to date. Top prize went to Houston dweller Laura Harrison for her doc ANT, but a few local boys also made good: PJ Raval and Jay Hodges added a $7000 cash prize to their 2004 win of $4000 win for their project, feature-length coal-mining-town-turned-gender-reassignment-mecca doc Best Kept Secret; UT film collective CYC Collaborative won $2000 in post-production for their zombie-apocalypse feature Shores Of Another Sea (wtf? They didn't just get the whole 125K?); and David Hartstein’s gubernatorial doc What Makes Kinky Run also recieved a $5000 post-production assist.