Kit Pongetti is a grad of the Rtf program at The University of Texas in Austin who now resides in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Stakeout, will premiere at Austin Film Festival as part of Shorts Program 9 - The View from Outside (Friday 10/19 at 3:30 pm and Thurs, Oct. 25 at 4 pm at The Hideout). The comic short depicts two 1980s-era teenage gals who sit in their car and watch their peers at parties.
I asked Pongetti a few questions over email to find out about her first directing experience.
Slackerwood: What is your connection to Austin?
Kit Pongetti: I completely romanticize Austin. Or is it just kind of romantic already? I grew up in the Houston suburbs and fell in love with Austin after a trip there my senior year of high school. I ended up going to Ut for five years. Can't just stop at four.
I did a bunch of firsts there,...
I asked Pongetti a few questions over email to find out about her first directing experience.
Slackerwood: What is your connection to Austin?
Kit Pongetti: I completely romanticize Austin. Or is it just kind of romantic already? I grew up in the Houston suburbs and fell in love with Austin after a trip there my senior year of high school. I ended up going to Ut for five years. Can't just stop at four.
I did a bunch of firsts there,...
- 10/17/2012
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
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