February 2012
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“Watch The ‘Cinema Six’ Trailer Or I’ll Cut You” - Screen Junkies
Feb 27th
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
picturesofsuperheroes: More press for the trailer: This time from the Austin Chronicle with the awesomely titled story Don Swaynos, Superhero.
Feb 7th
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picturesofsuperheroes: “But if I was a praying man, I would be praying that Don Swaynos’ Pictures of Superheroes and Mark Potts and Cole Selix’s Cinema Six will get accepted into SXSW 2012, because if I have to wait much longer to see either of those films I am going to freakin’ explode!” - Don Simpson, Film School Rejects
Feb 7th
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http://www.directorslounge.net →
The world premiere of Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates will be February 9th at the Berlin International Director’s Lounge: berlinlounge: thurs 9 10:30pm pictured: Maurizio Von Trapp GB Matador Nicolas Ramel FR A/V Sketch#5 40s 2011 | World Premiere Miron Zownir DE Valuev vs Violence 2 min 20s 2006 Don Swaynos US Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates 1 min 46s 2011| World Premiere ...
Feb 7th
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January 2012
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Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates (2012) My experimental short film, Six Hundred and Forty-One Slates, is going to have it’s world premiere February 9th at the Berlin International Director’s Lounge and it’s US Premiere a few days later at the Strange Beauty Film Festival on February 16th. You can see the full Strange Beauty line-up over at Bad Lit.
Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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Sound Station was my favorite record store when I lived in New Jersey. It’s where I bought my first records from Mr. Bungle, Clutch, The Misfits, Sepultura… even some stuff I kind of regret now- like that Fear Factory album and, ugh, my ska phase… They’ve been in business since 1990(?), surviving competition from Sam Goody’s, Napster, and iTunes… until a fire...
Jan 24th
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
July 2011
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June 2011
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Mark Potts (writer/director A Splice of Life, S&M Lawn Care) has some great advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Just make shit.”
Jun 21st
January 2011
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picturesofsuperheroes: This website is live which means it’s too late for me to back out of making this movie!
Jan 20th
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Jan 11th
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Underground Filmmakers List →
My resolution for 2011 is to make more things that can go next to my name on this list: undergroundfilm: Your underground film stat for the day: Number of filmmakers in Bad Lit’s Filmmakers database: 208
Jan 3rd
December 2010
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Dec 7th
November 2010
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I’ll be speaking to the Austin Final Cut SIG tonight at 7PM at Channel Austin. For more information visit the Final Cut SIG website.
Nov 23rd
October 2010
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"S&M Lawn Care is a million times funnier than The... →
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Scott Meyers’ Ultimate Guide to Flight is having its world premiere this week at the Austin Film Festival. The film’s already gotten some press from Twitch, Movieweb, and ScreenCrave. Also Mark Potts’ critically-acclaimed, award-winning S&M Lawn Care will also being playing at the festival. For more on both check out AFF’s website.
Oct 18th
September 2010
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Check out Film Threat's four-star review of 'S&M... →
Sep 21st
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I just found out that the music video I directed for Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures’ ‘Zombie a Go Go’ is going to be screening at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival, October 21-24 in Sacramento, CA.
Sep 20th
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A Faulty Chromosome: Scoffers vs. Beasts (2010)
Sep 14th
I've redesigned my website, donswaynos.com →
Sep 8th
August 2010
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The Ballad of Friday and June (2009) “…one of the most exquisite short films to come out of Austin in ages… you’ve never seen anything quite like (it)… (T. Lynn Mikeska gives) a tour de force performance… At a tight nine minutes, ‘Friday and June’ eloquently articulates, with equal parts humor and heartache, an unnameable cri de coeur that...
Aug 26th
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Love, Lies, & Video Files - Part 02: The Auditions (2010)
Aug 23rd
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Aug 17th
July 2010
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Love at 20: Waiting (2010)
Jul 23rd
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Jesse Dayton: I’m Comin’ Home (2010)
Jul 22nd
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The Reshoots (2010)
Jul 22nd
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The Insur-Animals: Episode 4 (2008)
Jul 21st
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Charles Whelan: The Bright Knight (2009) Best Use of Web Video (Gold), Pollie Awards 2010
Jul 20th
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Year at Danger (2007) (Trailer) “Five Stars… An extraordinary achievement… truly remarkable… a thoroughly unvarnished account of a soldiers life in Iraq… this may very well be the best documentary of the year.” - Pete Vonder Haar, Film Threat “…immensely powerful…” - Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle “They show raw emotion,...
Jul 19th
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The Insur-Animals: Episode 3 (2008)
Jul 18th
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Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
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Adam Sultan: You Got the Gin (2006)
Jul 15th
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Ned Lamont: The Tale of Indie Joe (2007)
Jul 14th
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In Defense of Definitions… (2006)
Jul 13th
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The Insur-Animals: Episode 2 (2008)
Jul 12th
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The American Widow Project (2008) (Trailer) Recipient, Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund 2008
Jul 11th
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Hayes Carll: She Left Me For Jesus (2008)
Jul 9th
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The Secular Student Alliance (2009)
Jul 9th
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Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures: Zombie a Go-Go (2009) Official Selection, Dark Carnival Film Festival, 2009 Official Selection, Dismember the Alamo Zombie Film Festival, 2009 Official Selection, South Africa Horrorfest, 2009 Official Selection, Schlockfest, 2010 Official Selection, A Night of Horror Film Festival, 2010
Jul 9th
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The Insur-Animals: Episode 1 (2008) Winner, Best Use of Web Video (Silver), Pollie Awards 2009 Winner, Best Use of Humor (Bronze), Pollie Awards 2009
Jul 9th