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Louis Black(I)

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Louis Black
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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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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)

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Alan Cumming, Daryl Sabara, and Alexa PenaVega in Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids
5.6
  • Financier
  • 2001
Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, and Usher in The Faculty (1998)
The Faculty
6.5
  • Mr. Lewis
  • 1998
Tower (2016)
Tower
7.9
  • Producer
  • 2016
Independent Lens (1999)
Independent Lens
8.1
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Producer

  • The Midnight Song
    • Post-production
  • Django Lives!
    • In Production
  • The Newspaperman
    • Post-production
  • Mac Mcintosh in Don't You Go Nowhere (2022)
    Don't You Go Nowhere
  • Lover, Beloved
  • Fire Music (2021)
    Fire Music
  • Melat: After All
  • J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius (2019)
    J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius
  • Becoming Leslie (2019)
    Becoming Leslie
  • Hayes Carll: Times Like These
  • Laurie Gallardo and Paeka Campos in Goodbye Sirena (2018)
    Goodbye Sirena
  • Ben Dickey in Sing That One to Me (2018)
    Sing That One to Me
  • Bodies of Water (2018)
    Bodies of Water
  • Blaze (2018)
    Blaze
  • Road Angel (2018)
    Road Angel
  • Jonny Mars, Christine Horn, Antoine McKay, and Sara Sevigny in Rogers Park (2017)
    Rogers Park
  • The Honor Farm (2017)
    The Honor Farm
  • Tower (2016)
    Tower

Actor

  • The Next Kill (2018)
    The Next Kill
  • Isip the Warrior (2013)
    Isip the Warrior
  • Alan Cumming, Daryl Sabara, and Alexa PenaVega in Spy Kids (2001)
    Spy Kids
  • Waking Life (2001)
    Waking Life
  • Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, and Usher in The Faculty (1998)
    The Faculty
  • Slacker (1990)
    Slacker
  • David Byrne in True Stories (1986)
    True Stories
    • (uncredited)
  • Nancy Allen and David Naughton in Not for Publication (1984)
    Not for Publication
    • (uncredited)
  • Fair Sisters

Director

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