And we’ve really had some wonderful Houston documentaries in the past few years.” Lampe ticks off such high profile films as “Hot Town, Cool City” by Maureen McNamara and “For the Sake of the Song: The Story of Anderson Fair” directed by Bruce Bryant. “Michael Moore, love him or hate him, really increased awareness of the genre. “I think the documentary community here is very rich,” says Mary Lampe, executive director of SWAMP. Lunzt points out that the MFAH screens local documentaries and there are several venues of support from the Houston Film Commission to the Documentary Alliance and the Southwest Alternative Media Project, lovingly known as SWAMP, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year of supporting citizen filmmakers and their non-commercial films. “It’s not that different then when Rick Linklater started the Austin Film Society to support like minded filmmakers there.” There’s a new generation of filmmakers here doing some incredible work and they’re very supportive of each other,” she adds. “But I do think the community has become more active in recent years. Marian Luntz, MFAH’s curator of film and video, agrees that the life of a documentary filmmaker in this city isn’t always easy. “Now we sit and wait and see if we can break even on the film.” “But it all went to entrance fees for film festivals. “We made a little money off of T-shirt and sticker sales and a screening last year,” says Alex Luster, whose three-year-in-the-making documentary about Houston street poster artists “Stick em Up!” will be screened again at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in early May. John Carrithers shoots the Byzantine Frescos at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel for a documentary film produced by Francois and Susan de Menil.
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