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Lovely locals made the date at launch of San Antonio Social Calendar

Social Locals

Lovely locals made the date at launch of San Antonio Social Calendar

Sara McCamish, Sara Stumberg Walker, Whitney Schones, and Jody Lutz.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
The evening was held at the beautiful Monty & Ivy Hall.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
Liz Lamourex, Scott Lamourex, and Sara Stumberg Walker.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
Sara Hunter, David Alvarez, and Meredith Alvarez.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
Jenna Osborn, Nicole McClane, Rosa Latimer, and Sheila Barrett.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
The event also featured giveaways and swag bags.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
Meredith Alvarez, Michelle Flaig, Sara Stumberg Walker, and Terrell McCaleb.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar
The SA Social Calendar curates events ranging from society galas to music festivals.Courtesy of San Antonio Social Calendar

What: The launch of the San Antonio Social Calendar

Where: The Monty & Ivy Hall

The lowdown: On October 24, San Antonio native Sara Stumberg Walker launched the San Antonio Social Calendar, an online resource curating the city's numerous society, young professional, and nonprofit events. Held at the Monty & Ivy Hall, the evening gave attendees the chance to meet, mingle, and sip cocktails while enjoying the beautiful fall weather. The website, which features everything from galas and charity balls to festivals and sporting events, was conceived as a resources for chic San Antonians to plan their evenings. The SA Social Calendar also features recaps and resources for event planning and producing.

Who: Jenna Osborn, Nicole McClane, Rosa Latimer, Sheila Barrett, Liz Lamourex, Scott Lamourex, Sara Stumberg Walker, Meredith Alvarez, Michelle Flaig, Terrell McCaleb, Sara Hunter, David Alvarez, Sara McCamish, Whitney Schones,and Jody Lutz.

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San Antonio's Michelle Rodriguez among celebs honored at Texas Film Awards

Vin Diesel came to support his co-star Michelle Rodriguez at the Texas Film Awards. Photo by Lauren Slusher

The Texas capital is busy with visitors from all over, including San Antonio. In addition to some San Antonians playing sets at South by Southwest, one of San Antonio's own, Michelle Rodriguez was just featured in the Texas Film Awards. Honoring legends of the Texas film industry, the annual fundraising event in Austin inducted new members into the Texas Film Hall of Fame, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Austin Film Society (AFS), the milestone year for the Texas Film Hall of Fame welcomed new members Michelle Rodriguez, Tim and Karrie League, and Noah Hawley. Before the event, CultureMap caught up with AFS founder and film director Richard Linklater about the anniversary.

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“It’s very cool,” he said, “Forty years is wild. You can’t help but reflect back to year one. We grew with Austin: as Austin has grown, so have we.”

Sharing the impact of AFS grants on stage during the event, Linklater elaborated further on this symbiotic growth.

“The rising tide of Austin lifted our boat, and we grew when we needed to [without] losing our fundamental film freakiness," Linklater said. "Forty years in, I know two things to be true: community is everything. Watching movies together connects us and builds that community. And, the love and appreciation of cinema knows no bounds: if you nurture it, it feeds you back ten fold.”

Linklater is on a recent awards streak, having been honored with a Texas Medal of Arts Award in late February.

Robert Rodriguez and Michelle RodriguezPhoto by Lauren Slusher

He also introduced a surprise guest to the event, Vin Diesel, who co-starred with Rodriguez in the Fast and Furious franchise. Sauntering onto the stage in a black cowboy hat, Diesel shared that he recently discovered his Texan roots and that their Texan identity was one of many things that bind him to Rodriguez as his ride-or-die.

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Actor and one-time Austinite Elijah Wood presented the award to Tim and Karrie League, founders of the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest.

Elijah Wood Tim and Karrie League Texas Film Awards Elijah Wood, Tim and Karrie LeaguePhoto by Lauren Slusher

Wood praised the Leagues for their impact not just on the Austin film industry but the wider film community by redefining what a theater could be, “a place that embraces both first-run studio films, independent and international gems, and the most obscure oddities dug from the archives; a place where you can pair dinner with a movie; where themed screenings create memories beyond the film itself.”

For the final award of the night, Atlanta actress Zazie Beetz and Fargo actor David Rysdahl presented the award to writer and producer Noah Hawley, who is currently working on Fargo and Alien: Earth.

David Rysdahl, Noah Hawley, and Zazie BeetzPhoto by Lauren Slusher

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