AMFF Kick-Off Event at Bullock Was Great Success

Mariachi Corbetas

Thanks to all who attended the Les Blank Retrospective and first Austin Music Film Festival event.

Special thank you to our partner and sponsor, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum.

Live music by Blues band Trimmed and Burning brought their bad-ass blues licks and kicked off Friday night's Blues screenings and Mariachi Corbetas launched Sunday night's Latino screenings with a kicking Mariachi performance featuring the number one accordion player in Texas, 18 year-old Anthony Ortiz, Jr.

Muchas gracias to documentary filmmaker extraordinaire Les Blank who shared his highly lauded historical Texas Blues and Norteno films at the Les Blank Retrospective regional premier in Austin, Texas.

We look forward to working with Les Blank in the future.

Additionally, a partnership with the Austin Blues Society has been formed. Look for partnered music events with AMFF and the ABS soon. Please check back here for future Austin Music Film Festival events.

AMFF Les Blank Retrospective Schedule

Friday November 18

6-6:25pm Live Music - Blues

6:30  Films

                                The Sun's Gonna Shine (10 min)

                                The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins (31 min)

                                Mr. Charlie ( 8 min )

7:35 - Film

                                Always for Pleasure ( 58 min)

8:45 - Films

                                Cigarette Blues (6 minutes)

                                A Well Spent Life (44 minutes)

Sunday November 20

6-6:25 Live Music - Accordion

6:30 Films

                                Chulas Fronteras (58 min)

                                Del Mero Corazon ( 28 min)

8:15 Films

                Jai Eté Au Bal (84 min)

Also see the Bob Bullock Website http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/showtimes/spirit/les_blank.html for more information.

Austin Music Film Festival Announces a Les Blank Retrospective, Friday and Sunday, November 18th and 20th 2011, at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

Two time Library of Congress Film Registry inductee Les Blank will be featured in a Showcase and Career Retrospective at the Austin Music Film Festival held Friday and Sunday, November 18th and 20th, 6-10pm. at the Bob Bullock Texas  State History Museum. The Festival will open on November 18th, 6pm with live music.

Renowned documentary filmmaker Les Blank

The Les Blank Retrospective will showcase historic Texas music films such as Chulas Fronteras (now in the Library of Congress Film Registry), The Blues Accordin' to Lightning Hopkins.  Del Mero Corazon, A Well Spent Life, The Sun's Gonna Shine, and Cigarette Blues.  

                       The Blues Accordin' to Lightning Hopkins a Film By Les Blank

Texas-Mexican performer Lydia Mendoza in Chulas Fronteras

Legendary Texas Blues musician Mance Lipsomb from a Well Spent Life

The Les Blank Retrospective is a first for Austin and honors Texas musicians of the past. Check this website for a complete film line-up and screening times.

Just Added: New Orleans/Zydeco/Cajun Music Films

J'ai Etu Au Bal (I Went To The Dance)

King Clifton Chenier Focus of Film Hot Pepper

Always For Pleasure

The Austin Music Film Festival Mission & Objective

The Austin Music Film Festival provides exhibition of music films often overlooked by other film festivals. We offer audience and media exposure for music docs, music features, musicals and music videos. The Austin Music Film Festival showcases undistributed films, music-related theatrical releases and rarely seen historical classics.

The Old Man of the Mountain, 1933 Fleischer Brothers cartoon with Cab Calloway and Betty Boop

Austin Music Film Festival: Looking For a Few Good Films

Do you have a doc, feature, or musical? We want your film for 2012! 

Willie Nelson: The King of Luck, Directed by Billy Bob Thornton

The Austin Music Film Festiva, 2011 is a curated Festival with our first kick-off event focusing on the Texas Blues and Latino films of renowned documentarian Les Blank. Live music opens the screenings at the Bob Bullock  Texas State History Museum, Friday and Sunday, November 18th and 20th, 2011. Film schedule and more information is posted above.

We will begin accepting open  submissions of  music movies--both short and feature-length in January 2012, for the 2012 Austin Music Film Festival . Contact Kathleenfairweather@gmail.com for rules and submission guidelines.

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