Small Scale: Big Impact at SXSW Eco
While a lot of SXSW Eco is about big impact projects, some of it is about small scale projects that can make a big difference. One of these small scale projects is about providing...
Author: Anna
Fantastic Fest 2015 in Storify
Whenever I’m at a festival, I tend to do a lot of social media posts about what’s going on. Here’s a collection of my social media posts about Fantastic Fest 2015! [View the story...
Science (No Longer Fiction) at SXSW Eco
In a news cycle where NASA has just discovered water on Mars and heavily the science-based film The Martian just had a strong opening weekend (after an early screening at Fantastic Fest), it’s nice...
Sicario: A Difficult Film About a Difficult Topic
The lighting is harsh, the landscape is ugly, the body count is high and the performances are outstanding, even if the characters are difficult to like. Sicaro is an ugly film full of ugly...
Check Out Today’s Statesman Column on Fantastic Fest and Africa!
Today’s column on Fantastic Fest ran in the online-only version of the Austin-American Statesman. Click here to read it. Since M3NSA Ansah told me the first “Coz Ov Moni” film was viewable on YouTube,...
Watching African film at Fantastic Fest
When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had already graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and had gotten a Fulbright grant to study Francophone African theater in...
Hanks: Fantastic Fest offers quick trip to other side of world
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Posted: 1:59 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had...
Fever Dream of Fantastic Debates
Last night I had what must have been a fever dream, because there’s really no way that I was at a boxing match at Randy Palmer’s South Austin Gym, where Guillermo del Toro, Elijah...
Dark Whimsy at Fantastic Fest 2015
Some years at Fantastic Fest the lineup is all about torture porn, or science fiction, or damsel-in-distress films. This year Fantastic Fest is all about dark whimsy, and I couldn’t be more excited about...
Thee Oh Sees Are Playing Austin Tonight! And Tomorrow!
I bet you all know that Thee Oh Sees have a show in Austin at Hotel Vegas tonigh and tomorrow night. They are a really fun band! A couple of years ago, I got...
