Interview:
Rich Gill,
program director,
Sound Unseen ATX 2023
A film festival devoted to music documentaries and narrative features, Sound Unseen ATX 2023 runs Dec. 6-10 at the Austin Film Society’s AFS Cinema. The festival opens Dec. 6 with the Cyndi Lauper documentary Let the Canary Sing and continues with the documentaries Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story, Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection, Runaway Radio, and We Are Fugazi From Washington D.C., which is co-directed by Joe Gross, the Austin-based author of “In on the Kill Taker” about the punk rock band’s 1993 album of the same name. The Punk Singer, a documentary about Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, receives a 10th anniversary screening on Dec. 8. Austin-based writer/director Katherine Propper’s Lost Soulz, a drama about an aspiring rapper touring Texas, serves as the festival’s closing night film on Dec. 9. Events include the Karaoke Underground night on Dec. 7, the Lost Soulz Hip Hop Showcase on Dec. 9, and the Ugly Sweater Carpenters Sing-Along on Dec. 10. This sample-sized festival offers a selection of the features and shorts that screened during November’s 24th annual Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival in Minneapolis. Aired: Dec. 6, 2023. Web sites: https://www.soundunseen.com/austin-festival https://www.facebook.com/soundunseen https://www.austinfilm.org/series/sound-unseen-2023/ |
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