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Louis Black(I)

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  • Actor
  • Director
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Louis Black
Trailer for Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016)
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Black is also a founder of the South By Southwest Music Festival and Conference in 1987 which added film and new media components in 1994. The South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals take place during ten days in March. An original Board Member of the Austin Film Society (AFS Founder and Artistic Director Richard Linklator) he is a past president of the organization. In 2000 Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith and Black working with AFS established the Texas Film Hall of Fame also in March.
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Crispin Glover and Louis Black
Louis Black and Margaret Brown at an event for The Great Invisible (2014)
Richard Linklater, Louis Black, and Janet Pierson at an event for Before Midnight (2013)

Known for:

Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, and Usher in The Faculty (1998)
The Faculty
6.6
  • Mr. Lewis
  • 1998
Alan Cumming, Daryl Sabara, and Alexa PenaVega in Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids
5.6
  • Financier
  • 2001
Tower (2016)
Tower
7.9
  • Producer
  • 2016
Independent Lens (1999)
Independent Lens
8.2
TV Series
  • Producer

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Producer

  • The Midnight Song
    • executive producer
    • Post-production
  • Django Lives!
    • producer
    • In Production
  • The Newspaperman
    • executive producer
    • Post-production
  • Mac Mcintosh in Don't You Go Nowhere (2022)
    Don't You Go Nowhere
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • Lover, Beloved
    • producer
    • 2022
  • Descendant (2022)
    Descendant
    • associate producer
    • 2022
  • Fire Music (2021)
    Fire Music
    • co-producer
    • 2021
  • Melat: After All
    • executive producer
    • Music Video
    • 2019
  • J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius (2019)
    J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius
    • executive producer
    • 2019
  • Becoming Leslie (2019)
    Becoming Leslie
    • executive producer
    • 2019
  • Hayes Carll: Times Like These
    • executive producer
    • Music Video
    • 2019
  • Laurie Gallardo and Paeka Campos in Goodbye Sirena (2018)
    Goodbye Sirena
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Ben Dickey in Sing That One to Me (2018)
    Sing That One to Me
    • executive producer
    • Video
    • 2018
  • Bodies of Water (2018)
    Bodies of Water
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Blaze (2018)
    Blaze
    • executive producer
    • 2018
  • Road Angel (2018)
    Road Angel
    • executive producer
    • 2018
  • Jonny Mars, Christine Horn, Antoine McKay, and Sara Sevigny in Rogers Park (2017)
    Rogers Park
    • executive producer
    • 2017
  • The Honor Farm (2017)
    The Honor Farm
    • executive producer
    • 2017

Actor

  • The Next Kill (2018)
    The Next Kill
    • Jimmy White
    • 2018
  • Isip the Warrior (2013)
    Isip the Warrior
    • Baptist Minister
    • Short
    • 2013
  • Alan Cumming, Daryl Sabara, and Alexa PenaVega in Spy Kids (2001)
    Spy Kids
    • Financier
    • 2001
  • Waking Life (2001)
    Waking Life
    • Kierkegaard Disciple
    • 2001
  • Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, and Usher in The Faculty (1998)
    The Faculty
    • Mr. Lewis
    • 1998
  • Slacker (1990)
    Slacker
    • Paranoid Paper Reader
    • 1990
  • David Byrne in True Stories (1986)
    True Stories
    • The Happy Wanderers Strictly Accordion Marching Band (uncredited)
    • 1986
  • Nancy Allen and David Naughton in Not for Publication (1984)
    Not for Publication
    • Audience Member At Orgy (uncredited)
    • 1984
  • Fair Sisters
    • Gangster
    • Short
    • 1981

Director

  • Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016)
    Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    • Director
    • 2016
  • Jonathan Demme Presents: Made in Texas
    • Director (attached)
    • 2015
  • Fair Sisters
    • Director
    • Short
    • 1981
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21 Years: Richard Linklater
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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

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    • The Austin Chronicle (Of Which Louis Black is Editor)
  • Born
    • 1950
    • New York City, New York, USA

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    Editor of The Austin Chronicle, the alternative newsweekly in the Texas capital city.

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