An excerpt from Today’s times:

Nansel and his colleagues work so hard, in fact, that they’ve stumbled into real estate development. About a mile north of the Old Market, Saddle Creek is almost finished building a complex that will have retail space, a restaurant, apartments, the record company’s offices, a music venue and a nonprofit film art house called Film Streams.Rachel Jacobson, 28, the founder of Film Streams, moved from Omaha to New York in 2000 with a plan: for five years she’d apprentice at Miramax Films and WNYC, the public radio station, then move back. Alexander Payne is on her board (disclosure: so am I), and in short order, she raised $1.5 million, mainly from locals. “At first I had so much empty space in my head,” she said. “Moving back to Omaha was like when your ears ring right after you leave a loud concert. But it’s so much easier to get things done.”

Mark your calendars! Indiepix filmmaker Dominic DeJoseph is proud to show two shorts
at the 60 Second Southern Video Festival via Fugitive Projects gallery in Nashville, TN
on Saturday, May 5th, and again in Basel, Switzerland on May 11th. The films are:
“Ghost Ray” (2007), an experiment in surrealism made in Paris, France with of the ghost of Man Ray and
the music of Sean Eden (Luna) and “After Emak Bakia” (1995), an experimental graphics film made in Athens, GA from instructions in the autobiography of Man Ray.

Director Jennifer Venditti and Billy Price at the after party for BILLY THE KID at SXSW.
I had the great honor of meeting Billy Price, the star of Jen’s BILLY THE KID, at a party celebrating the premiere in Austin. Billy jokingly played dj sets featuring clips from Phantom of the Opera. The one-man one-liner memorably declared: “I’m here for the women.”

Among the colorful cast of filmmakers, actors, producers, and booth-attendees at this year’s SXSW Film Festival are new friends

Matthew Lessner, Brian Davila, Nadia Litz, Reg Harkema, as well as first anniversary friends Kiki Allgeier and Laurent Rejto, of the Woodstock Film Festival.

Producer-cinematographer David Becker (Shut Up and Sing) and performing arts agent David Persky were on hand to help us shoot our much-lauded interview sessions. Indiepix is also proud to announce that BILLY THE KID, a film directed by Jennifer Venditti and executive produced by Bob Alexander and Barnet Leiberman, won the top Jury prize for best Documentary this past week.

Lauryn Siegel’s wonderful new short, the 16 minute A TRIPLET AFFAIR, is almost ready for release. In the meantime, you can catch a screening of the short tomorrow night at the illustrious Anthology Film Archives, located at 2 East 2nd Street, at 9pm. Lauryn will be on hand to sell 50 limited edition preview discs, so make sure you get your copy early!