Through film, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival digs deep into the stories, people and culture of the Bayou City

Courtesy of Houston Cinema Arts Society

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Documentaries, features, shorts.

Photography, music and dance.

It’s time again for the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, which is currently taking place – in person and virtually.

Today, we explore our local film culture by diving into the 13^th annual festival – whose theme is "The Third Coast," a tribute to the Gulf Coast region and especially Houston, where the term was coined.

How do the films and filmmakers on this year's festival reflect our city, and the times in which we live?

Whether you're into documentaries, short films or Houston stories, share your questions about the festival, the local film industry and the indie movies being made today.

Guests:

Jessica Green

• Artistic Director, Houston Cinema Arts Festival

Jim Townsend

• Executive Director, Houston Cinema Arts Festival

Michael Robinson

• Associate Creative Director, Houston Cinema Arts Society
• Curator of shorts for Borders No Borders Narratives and Documentaries

Jenny Waldo

• Writer, Director and Producer of Acid Test
• Encore screening of Acid Tes” on December 7 at Eureka Heights. Tickets will be on sale later this month.

Aaron Sainz

• Producer of Bushwick Bill: Geto Boy

Susan and Alan Raymond

• Filmmakers of The Third Coast (40th Anniversary)

Dr. Shelah Leader

• Organizer/attendee of the 1977 National Women’s Conference
• 1977 National Women’s Conference: A Question of Choices
• Author of “American Women in the Move: The Inside Story of the National Women's Conference, 1977 by Shelah Gilbert Leader and Patricia Rusch Hyatt” (Lexington, 2016)

Dr. Leandra Zarnow

• 1977 Digital Humanities Project with Center for Public History at the University of Houston
• 1977 National Women’s Conference: A Question of Choices

Ronald L. Jones

• Filmmaker of Again, Together

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