Bryan Poyser's Lovers of Hate at Sundance

Most Austin folks are already well aware of this, but the Austin Film Society's Director of Artist Services (and accomplished filmmaker) Bryan Poyser will be premiering his new feature Lovers of Hate in competition at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.

This is very exciting for me, in part because I got to see an early cut of the film and it's really fucking good, but also because Bryan is such a cool fucking guy. Bryan was running TFPF when Sean and I got a grant for Corpus in 2007, and he was an invaluable resource throughout the production - helping to hook me up with a Super 8mm projector when mine broke down, and giving me an unbelievably honest and insightful critique once I'd completed a rough cut. The guy knows his stuff - I learned almost as much about filmmaking in an hour talking to him about Corpus as I did in four years of film school, except he didn't charge me a hundred thousand dollars.

So if you take my experience with Bryan and multiply it by every filmmaker in Austin who he's similarly helped out (he didn't get this for nothing), it's hard to think of someone more deserving of success as a filmmaker. I'm sure we'll be hearing much more about Bryan and LOH soon.....