THE EYES OF ME presents an extraordinary look at four blind teenagers. The parallel stories of two freshmen and two seniors unfold over the course of one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin.
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To escape a repressive home life, Sibel proposes marriage to an alcoholic middle-aged man, with neither thinking they might actually fall in love.

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Documentary filmmaker Frank Popper hopes that his film “shows voters in a very personal and concrete way how the system for electing candidates to public office is broken, but that it is fixable.”
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Red Salmon Arts and the Mexican American Cultural Center present WRITING BEHIND BARS, a special screening of Susanne Mason's documentary WRIT WRITER, about jailhouse lawyer Fred Cruz, and poetry reading by Jorge Antonio Renaud, winner of nine PEN awards while incarcerated in the Texas prison system.

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The oldest Mardi Gras celebration in America, this time-honored ritual has always been racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals to explore the complex contours of this hallowed tradition and the elusive forces that keep it organized along color lines.
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Tom, a playwright, and George, an artist, share a garret in Paris where they have struggled for success for 12 years. Gilda, a lovely young commercial artist, enters their lives and their hearts and brings them success. Amazingly, the ménage a trois manages to work out the kinks in their complicated relationship – even after Gilda marries her stodgy boss. This decidedly pre-Code comedy got onto American screens right before the Hollywood censors cracked down on a whole host of representations of “immorality.”
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Death is curious about why people fear him and cling to life, so he takes a short holiday as “Prince Sirki” and persuades Duke Lambert to invite him to a weekend party in his villa. There “Sirki” meets Grazia, who despite her engagement to Corrado, feels strangely drawn to the mysterious stranger. Two other female guests, Rhoda and Alda, are also intrigued by the Prince, but Alda feels frightened when she looks into his eyes. Death actually wishes to experience love and chooses Grazia as the object of his inexperienced “affection.” In such a scenario, complications are bound to arise.
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Small town folks were usually depicted cinematically in the 30s as fish out of water when landing in New York City, but Hazel Flagg figures out a way to put one over on the big city slickers. Getting a quack diagnosis that she is dying from radium poisoning after painting too many watch dials, the eager young woman wins a free trip to the Big Apple where she is the proverbial toast of the town and object of a journalist’s fantasies.

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Burned at the stake several hundred years before, Jennifer returns to life to make life hell for the descendant of her Puritan executioner. But her love potion gets misdirected and she instead becomes infatuated with Jonathan rather than vice- versa. Attracted but not drawn to her, the man is more focused on his fiancée and his upcoming senatorial election. Jennifer’s drunken warlock father only further complicates matters in this classic screwball comedy.

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“Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America?”
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