Louis Black

Biography

Black is also a founder of the South By Southwest Music Festival and Conference in 1987 which added film and new media components in 1994. The South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals take place during ten days in March. An original Board Member of the Austin Film Society (AFS Founder and Artistic Director Richard Linklator) he is a past president of the organization. In 2000 Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith and Black working with AFS established the Texas Film Hall of Fame also in March.

Known For

The Faculty

Waking Life

Slacker

QT8: The First Eight

True Stories

21 Years: Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

All Movies (13)

• Punk Rock Lottery2025 · as Himself
• QT8: The First Eight2019 · as Self
• The Next Kill2018 · as Jimmy White
• Also Starring Austin2018
• Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny2016 · as Self - Co-founder, Austin Chronicle
• 21 Years: Richard Linklater2014 · as Self - Newspaper Editor
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston2006 · as Self
• Waking Life2001 · as Kierkegaard Disciple
• University, Inc.1999 · as Self
• The Faculty1998 · as Mr. Lewis
• Slacker1990 · as Paranoid Paper Reader
• True Stories1986 · as The Happy Wanderers Strictly Accordion Marching Band (uncredited)
• Isip the Warrior— · as Baptist Minister