Blanton/AFF Summer Film Series - Gretchen June 18, 2009

Blanton Summer Film Series
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This summer the Blanton and the Austin Film Festival are proud to present an exciting new collaboration, the New Directions Film Series. This special collection of five films will introduce the exceptional work of emerging independent filmmakers. The films will be screened in the museum's new auditorium during Third Thursdays and select Sundays through July 19. Dates and times are below. Cost: $3 for AFF members, Blanton members, UT faculty and students; and $5 for general public.

* Gretchen (2006) 98 minutes
Thursday, June 18, 7 PM
Sunday, June 21, 3 PM

Dir. Steve Collins, U.S.
Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth – high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy. Starring Courtney Davis as the perpetually uncomfortable Gretchen, Steve Collins' first feature is a humorously deadpan yet poignant reminder of how the smallest moments can lead to extreme adolescent drama.

Official Website: http://blantonmuseum.org/experience_the_blanton/summer_film_series.cfm