Your Guide to aGLIFF 19: Films, Parties, Tickets, and More

aGLIFF Online

With the help of Bside Entertainment, aGLIFF now offers an interactive online schedule. Before the festival starts, use it to check out the various films being screened and parties being thrown, see what films others think are hot, and add them to your own customized calendar. Afterwards, log on and share your reviews and ratings with the rest of the aGLIFF community.

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The Soundpost Feature Film Director Award

Having teamed up with Soundpost, a digital distribution and licensing service for indie artists and labels, aGLIFF this year inaugurated the Soundpost Feature Film Director Award, a juried prize that provides a soundtrack grant of $130,000 for one of the filmmakers to be screened at the festival. Chosen by a panel of judges that included Leila Hernandez (co-host/co-creator, Austin Movie Show), Chale Nafus (Director of Programming, Austin Film Society), and Janet Pierson (Co-President, Grainy Pictures; Vice President, Austin Film Society), the final four nominees were:

• C.R.A.Z.Y. (Dir., Jean-Marc Vallee)
  "Homage to the pop-culture-saturated middle class of the seventies. Zachary Beaulieu, a sexually confused teenager with an affinity for Bruce Lee, John Lennon, and, most importantly, David Bowie, tries to survive four rough-and-tumble brothers and win the affection of his loving but old-fashioned father."
• Gypo (Dir., Jan Dunn)
  "An emotionally charged debut that tells the story of an unhappily married working-class couple in their mid forties, barely holding it together caring for their 18-year old daughter Penny’s out-of-wedlock newborn son. Their loveless marriage is shaken to the core when Tasha, a young Romany Czech refugee is befriended by Penny. Notwithstanding its status as the first official UK Dogme95 film, the bare bones of Gypo’s aesthetic invests the narrative with a sense of authenticity and truth that is almost documentary-like in its realism."
• Paper Dolls (Dir., Tomer Heymann)
  "Paper Dolls follows a group of gay Filipino immigrants in the suburbs of southern Tel Aviv, working as caregivers to elderly Orthodox Jews. They develop a deep familial bond with these elderly men that's suprising and heartwarming. On their one day off a week, these same immigrants entertain their fellow Filipinos with a drag-queen show called 'The Paper Dolls.'"
• Saint of 9/11 (Dir., Glenn Holsten)
  "Saint of 9/11 is a portrait of Father Mychal Judge, Franciscan friar and chaplain of the New York Fire Department. The world came to know Father Judge in death as a symbol of courage and sacrifice: a hero. Saint of 9/11 is about his journey as a recovering alcoholic, a gay man and a quintessential priest."

Parties

Beyond screening a slew of excellent films, aGLIFF also makes it a point to host some great parties and after-hours events. Here are just a few:

• Opening Night Party with performances by The White Ghost Shivers, VIP Lounge outfitted by Mercury Design Studio
  Friday, September 29th
  Austin City Hall (301 West 2nd St.)
  $25, Includes Premiere Screenings
  9pm-Midnight
• Afterparty for Soundpost Feature Film Director Award Winner "C.R.A.Z.Y.", with DJ Architektur
  Saturday, September 30th
  House of Dennis Karbach & Robert Brown (South Congress Ave.)
  aGLIFF Members Only
  9pm-2am
• "One Sweet Dance Party," Presented by the Austin Dragsters
  Thursday, October 5th
  Copa Bar & Grill (217 Congress Ave.)
  $5 Members / $10 General
  9pm-2am
• Idol Party
  Saturday, October 7th
  Austin Museum of Art (1325 South Congress Ave.)
  Free, Open to Public
  10pm-1am
• Closing Night Rolling Roadshow
  Music by Amy Cook, performances by Queertown and Comedian Stephanie Howard, and a Rolling Roadshow Screening of "Outlaugh!"
  Sunday, October 8th
  Hotel San Jose (1300 South Congress Ave.)
  $15, Tickets available on 9/25
  6pm-10pm

Tickets

Tickets for the screenings are $8/members, $9/general ($6/$7 for matinees), and are available at the following locations:

• Online at Frontgate Tickets
• By phone at 512-302-9889
• Regal Arbor Cinemas
  9828 Great Hills Trail