You might be surprised to learn that, one of the producers on Yorgos Lanthimos' sophomore, Un Certain Regard-winning feature, was a Nyu grad and part of the emerging indie scene in Austin. While obtaining her Mfa in film production at the University of Texas, Greek born Athina Rachel Tsangari was a full fledged Austinite who co-founded and was the artistic director of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival (programming the early shorts from the likes of Weerasethakul, Reichardt, Maddin, Miranda July, Don Hertzfeld) and get this, her first introduction to feature film was a small role in Richard Linklater's seminal film, Slacker. Prior to wearing the producer's hat on Lanthimos' debut film Kinetta and being the associate producer on Dogtooth, she directed first feature film in 2000's The Slow Business of Going (voted amongst the year’s best “first” features by the Village Voice Critics Poll in 2002) which evolved from her thesis film Fit,...
- 7/18/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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