Maui Film Fest and more from Village Voice…
After 12 hours of surprisingly-painless travel, we landed at 8PM in Maui. First, a snapshot of their awesome festival badges:
At breakfast, when engaging our friendly waiter, we learned of his days as an Austinite — in fact, he once lived 5 minutes from Barton Springs! He came to Maui for its breathtaking natural beauty and unpretentious attitude. Willie Nelson could afford to live on the Moon if he wanted but instead splits his time between Austin and Maui. So go figure. We were glad to give him two comp tickets for Sunday’s screening of “The Unforeseen” since we don’t really know anyone else here…
Second, we just saw that the Village Voice has again mentioned The Unforeseen in “How are they not on our payroll?” terms. Here’s a brief excerpt:
The Whole World in Our Hands
Activist fest takes on global warming, suburban sprawl and, as if war weren’t enough, AIDS in Iraq
by Nathan Lee
The 2007 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival unearths hope and horror from the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague, Israeli prisons, Eastern Congo, the slums of Guatemala, the racist South, Pinochet’s Chile, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Darfur, Belarus, Afghanistan, and (surprise, surprise) Iraq. But it is in Austin, Texas, that this fiercely committed festival locates its imaginative epicenter. {:-O}
Water flows from a 100-million-year-old limestone aquifer into the city of Austin, where it collects in the Barton Springs Pool, a recreational reservoir enjoyed by a population of unusually progressive Texans. Their efforts to save the springs from suburban development provide an initial strata of information in The Unforeseen, an ingeniously scaled, unusually resonant documentary by Laura Dunn.
The entire article here.
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