Here’s the best of what’s screening over the weekend at VideoFest:
Saturday
Animated Shorts – The highlight of this package of four films is Don Hertzfeldt’s I Am So Proud of You. The 21 minute film is the next in the animator’s “Everything Will be OK” series and follows a man learning about some family secrets. It’s [...]

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced today that it will present a two-year, pops concert series that will feature  DSO-commissioned world-premiere works plus multi-media retrospectives by five leading film composers — and Sir Anthony Hopkins.  “The Masters of Film Music” are James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight), George Fenton (Gandhi), Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), Michael Giacchino [...]

Legend of the Dot Race – Of the area’s four major pro-sports franchises, the Rangers are by far the most family friendly. Part of that is just the laid-back nature of baseball, and part of it is Chuck Morgan. For most of the last 25 years, Morgan has been the team’s announcer and been in [...]

THINK GLOBALLY, RECORD LOCALLY: “All I knew was that I wanted to be a musician, and I wanted to skip the step of paying other people to record,” Fort Worth musician and sound engineer Zaq Bell says in reference to using a home recording studio. That’s the approach that more and more Fort Worth musicians [...]

I haven’t seen (Untitled) yet, but the plot of the movie at least sounds like it would be up the alley of the rank-and-file Art&Seek reader. From imdb.com:
“A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.”
Interested? Just click [...]

MINING THE PAST: “You learn more from reading than from reading books on writing.” That’s the strategy that Southlake author Suzanne Crowley says guided her to a successful career as a young-adult author. Her second book in the genre, The Stolen One, is set in Tudor England and was inspired by the many books she [...]

VideoFest kicks off today. I’ll be offering up my picks for each day of the festival here on the blog, beginning with Thursday’s choice cuts:
A Dallas Jewish Journey – Today, Dallas has a vibrant Jewish community. But how did it start? This 17 minute film turns back the clock 100 years or so to look [...]

VideoFest gets going on Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas. The first 10 people who e-mail me (sbecker@kera.org) will receive a day pass good for the day of their choice. Check back in here on Thursday and Friday as I will be offering my daily picks for the festival.

If you’d like a free all-festival pass to VideoFest, you can get one – so long as you’re willing to work a little for it. All you have to do is show up at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas today at 2 p.m. to help set up and the pass will be yours. Give [...]

THE MAN AT THE MIC: Most actors playing the lead in Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio would be content to just perfect the ungodly amount of dialogue they have to learn for the show. But Elias Taylorson wanted his experience with Upstart Productions’ staging of the play to be more immersive. To that end, he also [...]