ME AND ORSON WELLES

Screening Info Monday, November 30 at 7 PM Red Carpet Arrivals at 6:30 PM The Paramount Theater (713 Congress Ave.) Ticket Info $132.50 for VIP Seating and After-Party $57.50 (Orchestra), $41.50 (Mezzanine) & $19 (Balcony) for Screening & Q&A (Prices include ticket processing fee) Buy Tickets >> AFS Member Pre-Sale has ended; Tickets on sale via The Paramount Theater Box Office and ProTix.

The Austin Film Society is excited to announce the Austin Premiere of ME AND ORSON WELLES with Zac Efron, Christian McKay and Richard Linklater in attendance.

Based in real theatrical history, ME AND ORSON WELLES is a romantic, coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937.

The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (impressive newcomer Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production while Richard (Zac Efron) mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind-the-scenes adventures bound to change him.

Claire Danes co-stars as Sonja Jones, the unapologetically ambitious assistant to Welles whom Richard tries to woo. Ben Chaplin plays Mercury Theater regular George Coulouris. Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly and James Tupper are among the talented ensemble cast. The fast-moving screenplay by Austinites Holly Gent Palmo and Vince Palmo is based on Robert Kaplow’s meticulously researched novel of the same name. Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater is at the helm of the CinemaNX and Detour Filmproduction, opening nationally in select cities November 25, 2009, and in Austin on December 4, 2009.

This screening is a benefit for the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, which was started in 1996 by Richard Linklater to assist emerging Texas filmmakers and has awarded over $1 million.

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