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S'nuff Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 9/30/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

The impending nuclear-powered holocaust got you down (see Greg Harman’s total bummer, page 10)? If so, tough titty —the fallout’s contaminated Snuffopolis this week, too, thanks to Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (esperanzacenter.org). The local nonprofit’s ongoing Other, Out & Beyond Film Fe...[MORE]

S'Nuff Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 9/23/2009

Types: Screens & Tech

To quote the Floyd (which J-school taught me is the first step toward responsible journalism), “Some stagger and fall, after all it’s not easy/ Banging your heart against some mad bugger’s wall.” It ain’t easy, but director Ricardo Martinez is doing exactly that with documentaryThe WallSantikos Bijo...[MORE]

S'NUFF Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 9/16/2009

Types: Screens & Tech

“Does anybody remember laughter?” It’s the noise you make after Robert Plant poses this awesomely condescending inquiry in Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same. Watch it the way your grandpa did — in a theater full of stoned teenagers and funny-smelling perma-fried acid casualties — for free at ...[MORE]

S'Nuff Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 9/9/2009

Types: Screens & Tech

Last chance, guys: The third annual San Antonio Local Film Festival is accepting film submissions until Tuesday, September 15. The festival, in its third year, charges no entry fees, and this year they’ll be taking submissions in three categories — shorts, feature-length films, and films produced by...[MORE]

S'NUFF Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 5/27/2009

Types: Screens & Tech

All right, you lazy little bastards, this is your last warning. If you’re gonna enter your short (20 minutes or less) film in the 2009 Josiah Youth Media Festival, you better be reading this shit either on set or in the post office, ’cause you got until June 1 to postmark that masterpiece. Go to urb...[MORE]

S'Nuff Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 5/20/2009

Types: Screens & Tech

Attention potential stage parents: Has your child always had a secret wish to perform? A wish they’ve always been too shy to express or even perceive, perhaps, but a desire that’s been eating them up inside ever since you, I mean they, were young? If so, drag the sniveling little ingrate to the down...[MORE]

S'nuff Film: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 5/6/2009

Types: Screens & Tech

I totally gave you guys the heads up a few weeks ago, so don’t come crying to your old Uncle Snuffy if you let the SA Film Festival’s May 1 deadline pass without postmarking a single narrative short. If it were up to me, the festival would tell all you procrastinators where exactly to submit those D...[MORE]

S'Nuff Film

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 8/6/2008

Types: Screens & Tech

What do Fellini’s 8 1/2, Scorsese’s Goodfellas, and some jag-off’s Howard the Duck have in common? Would you believe they were all written, shot, and edited in less than 48 hours? If so, I’m not sure how you even managed to read and comprehend the last t...[MORE]

S'NUFF FILM: (screens patrol)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 7/30/2008

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

Hello, folks. As you could probably tell if you could see me typing this (and let’s both be glad you can’t, since all I’m wearing is a pair of unlaundered Thundercats Underoos), I’m not your Critical Darling Ashley Lindstrom. I’m the new associate editor for Screens (as well as Music and Tech) so ki...[MORE]