2016 Lone Star Film Festival

Dr. R. Colin Tait is the co-author of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies and Digital Videotape, published by Columbia University Press in 2013. His current project, ”Robert De Niro’s Method: Acting, Authorship and Agency in the New Hollywood (1967-1980)” is the first academic study to use the newly acquired archival resource – the Robert De Niro Papers – to reassess De Niro’s... Read More →

Greg is a National Geographic Creative Photographer, a Founding Member of the Austin Center for Photography and a member of the Texas Photographic Society. He is a regular contributor to the Annual Fundraiser at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum and an Ambassador and Advisor to the Austin non-profit, Well Aware that provides innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in Africa. Well Aware World, the film... Read More →

Olaf Growald owns and operates Growald Photography, a Fort Worth/Dallas-based photography business specializing in documentary portraiture, editorial and serving the entire North Texas area. The New York City native is a award-winning, self-taught photographer who developed an interest in photography at a young age and has pursued it in some form throughout his personal and professional life. | | Growald honed his craft at a well-respected local... Read More →

I work as a freelance story artist and animator in New York by way of Atlanta where I earned an MFA in Animation from SCAD. With a focus on storytelling, I am constantly searching for new and interesting ways of exploring the written and visual narrative. Feel free to bend my ear on story, filmmaking, animation, storyboarding, or how much you'd like to give me comically large sacks of money.

Amanda Milius was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director/screenwriter John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Jeremiah Johnson, Dirty Harry, Big Wednesday) and actress Celia Kaye. She was exposed to a lot of B-films, Westerns, classics and art films both from her parents and from her first job working at a local arthouse video store in Los Angeles. She is forging a style influenced by these films but with her own take on themes of... Read More →