Date and Time
Wed, Sep 24
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Price
Free for Members, $5 for non-members.
Location
Austin Public - Studio 1
1143 Northwestern Ave, Austin, TX 78702
Join us at Austin Public for a Works-In-Progress screening of David Lykes Keenan’s TINY, TEXAS on September 24 at 6 PM. The film will be preceded by a mixer at 5:45 PM and followed by an audience feedback session moderated by filmmaker Bryan Poyser.
Please note: All Works-In-Progress films are unrated, and content varies by film. To better serve the community, AFS has introduced filmmaker-suggested content warnings to Works-In-Progress events to better inform audiences about elements within each film.
The filmmakers behind this project have suggested the film would be rated PG-13 due to the film’s content, which includes homophobic tones, painful outing experiences, internalized homophobia, explicit language, death, and emotional/mental distress.
AFS’s Works-In-Progress series provides the growing and diverse filmmaking community of Austin peer-level critiques of rough or fine cuts of their work. Screenings are free for AFS MAKE members and above ($5 for WATCH members and non-members) and are followed by moderated audience feedback sessions. Do you have a film you want to submit for Works-In-Progress consideration? MAKE level members and above can apply here. Not an AFS MAKE member? Register your membership here!
ABOUT THE FILM
In a tale of fathers and sons, set in 1980s small-town Texas, a high school basketball prodigy hits a wall of expectations, the community’s and his own. Then, his estranged and unwelcome gay father returns to town.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
David Keenan, arrived in Austin in 1978 and is now well into his third career as a screenwriter and filmmaker. He has written and directed all his films after the age of 60. As a 71-year-old gay man, he struggled against his sexuality for his entire life, successful in life but never in love. At an age that most men would hunger for retirement, he has become a storyteller who comes from a perspective of a lifetime outsider of his own tribe, a tribe that he was terrified to identify with for decades. Happily, he is past the worst of the emotional pain and suffering he endured, and now he uses these experiences to bring life to his unique characters and to tell stories that perhaps neither straight nor gay storytellers can truly relate to.
