Lights Camera Austin and KOOP 91.7 FM has 25 passes, each good for 2 people, to see the new Danny Boyle thriller "Trance." Passes may be used Monday through Thursday, beginning April 15, at any Austin-area Regal Theatre showing "Trance."

Email lightscameraaustin@koop.org to request a pass. You must pick up your pass from KOOP Radio, 3823 Airport Blvd, Suite B Austin, during regular business hours.

Passes will be available after 3 p.m. Thursday, April 9.

Academy Award® winning director Danny Boyle crafts a wildly twisting mind puzzle exploringidentity, madness and perception via the altered state of hypnotic trance. Between the razor-thin lines of our dreams, desires and darkest impulses, our everyday realities vanish, leaving only the question of who or what can be trusted.

In "Trance," Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars. After suffering a blow to the head during the heist, he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. When physical threats and torture fail to produce answers, the gang’s leader Franck (Vincent Cassel) hireshypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon’s psyche. As Elizabeth begins to unravel Simon’s broken subconscious, the line between truth, suggestion, and deceit begin to blur.

"Trance" opens Friday, April 12 in Austin. More information is available at http://www.trancethemovie.com/ 

Email lightscameraaustin@koop.org to receive your epass, good for 2, to see the new comedy Starbuck at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 at the Regal Arbor 8.

Here is the guest list for Lights Camera Austin's SXSW Film Festival 2013 preview coverage:

Feb. 21, 2013

SXSW Film Festival producer Janet Pierson

A Teacher director Hannah Fidell

Feb. 28, 2013

Loves Her Gun director Geoff Marslett and co-writer Lauren Modery

Pit Stop director Yen Tan

Before You Know It director PJ Ravel

March 4, 2013

The Retreival director Chris Eska

All the Labor director Doug Hawes-Davis

Prince Avalanche co-producer Berndt Mader

Rewind This! director Josh Johnson

March 7, 2013

Wiley Wiggins, Computer Chess

Grow Up, Tony Phillips director Emily Hagins

Zero Charisma co-director Katie Graham and writer/co-director Andrew Matthews

March 14, 2013

The Bounceback director Bryan Poyser

Good Night director Sean Gallagher

Note: Lights Camera Austin host Robert Sims serves as vice president of the Austin Film Critics Association.

December 18, 2012 (Austin, TX) – The Austin Film Critics Association announced its 2012 awards today, naming Zero Dark Thirty as Best Film. The drama about the search for Osama bin Laden also led the group's Top Ten list. AFCA named director Kathryn Bigelow's previous film, The Hurt Locker, Best Film in 2009.

The Master took home three AFCA awards this year. Paul Thomas Anderson was named Best Director, Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor, and Mihai Malaimare, Jr. was honored with Best Cinematography. Anderson previously won the AFCA Best Director award in 2007 for There Will Be Blood.

The magical-realism film Beasts of the Southern Wild also won multiple awards. Best First Film went to director Benh Zeitlin, and young star Quvenzhané Wallis was awarded the Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award.

AFCA also decided to recognize actor and Austin native Matthew McConaughey with a Special Honorary Award, in light of his strong performances this year in four films: Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, and The Paperboy.

The dark comedy Bernie, directed by Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater, was named Best Austin Film. Linklater won Best Austin Film twice before: for Me and Orson Welles in 2009, and for A Scanner Darkly in 2006.

Looper, the time-travel drama written and directed by Rian Johnson, was named Best Original Screenplay, while Chris Terrio's script for Argo took home Best Adapted Screenplay.

Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook. Best Supporting Actor went to Christoph Waltz for his role in Quentin Tarantino's action/Western Django Unchained. Waltz previously won the award in 2009 for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the musical Les Misérables. She won the AFCA Best Actress award in 2008 for Rachel Getting Married.

AFCA members chose Holy Motors, from French filmmaker Leos Carax, as Best Foreign Language Film. Best Animated Film went to Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, and the suspenseful The Imposter was named Best Documentary.

The full list of winners, plus the AFCA Top Ten Films of 2012 list, is detailed below. You can also find details at the AFCA website, www.austinfilmcritics.org.

The Austin Film Critics Association is a group dedicated to supporting the best in film, whether at the international, national, or local level. AFCA members contribute to publications and outlets as diverse as Ain't It Cool News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Austin Chronicle, DVDActive, Film.com, Film School Rejects, KOOP Radio, MSN Movies, Movies.com, ScreenCrush, Slackerwood, Smells Like Screen Spirit, Spill.com, Twitch, and YNN Austin, among others.

Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo

Best Cinematography: Mihai Malaimare, Jr., The Master

Best Score: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas

Best Foreign Language Film: Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

Best Documentary: The Imposter (Bart Layton)

Best Animated Film: Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore)

Best First Film: Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)

Best Austin Film: Bernie (Richard Linklater)

Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award:

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Special Honorary Award: Matthew McConaughey, for his exceptional work in four films this year (Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, and The Paperboy)

AFCA 2012 Top Ten Films:

1. Zero Dark Thirty

2. Argo

3. Moonrise Kingdom

4. Django Unchained

5. Cloud Atlas

6. Holy Motors

7. Beasts of the Southern Wild

8. The Master

9. Silver Linings Playbook

10. Looper

 

Lights, Camera, Austin talks with former Friday Night Lights star Zach Gilford about his new film, In Our Nature, which opens Friday. Alamo Drafthouse programmer and Trailer War curator Lars Nilsen discusses the compilation of coming attractions for vintage genre films, which is available Dec. 18 on DVD. The Collection director Marcus Dunstan and screenwriter Patrick Melton talk about the sequel to 2009's The Collector. Also, host Robert Sims reviews The Hobbit. Thursday, 12/13, 2-3 p.m.

Lights, Camera, Austin talks with director Mark Potts about the Austin-made workplace comedy Cinema Six, which will screen Friday at the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In. Also, director John Hyams discusses Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, which reunites Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. Shot in 3-D, this fourth entry in the Universal Soldier franchise opens Friday after debuting at Fantastic Fest. Finally, host Robert Sims reviews Killing Them Softly. Thursday, 11/29, 2-3 p.m.

Lights Camera Austin talks with director James Christopher about his locally shot thriller Abram's Hand, which is now on DVD. Director Scooter Downey and actor/writer Sean Elliot discuss their Austin-made chiller It's In the Blood, which stars Lance Henriksen and is now available on VOD. Plus host Robert Sims reviews The Sessions and Smashed. Thursday, 11/8, 2-3 p.m.

Lights Camera Austin talks with director Maria Sadowska and actress Katarzyna Kwiatkowska about Women's Day, which opens the 7th annual Austin Polish Film Festival (Nov. 1-4). Director Scooter Downey and actor/writer Sean Elliot discuss their locally shot chiller It's In the Blood, which stars Lance Henriksen and is now available on VOD. Writer/director Stephen R. Reynolds talks about his drama Triggered, which screens Nov. 3 at the Alamo South Lamar. Plus host Robert Sims reviews Wreck-It Ralph. Thursday, 11/1, 2-3 p.m.

Lights Camera Austin previews the Austin Film Festival (10/18-10/25) with the directors of four films with local ties: Pictures of Superheroes' Don Swaynos, Last Day at Lambeau's Michael Neelsen, Satellite of Love's Will James Moore, and Flatland 2: Sphereland's Dano Johnson. Thursday, 10/18, 2-3 p.m. 

Lights Camera Austin talks with Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival executive director Lindsay Muse and film programming director Curran Nault about this year's AGLIFF, which runs Oct. 3 through Oct. 7. Cinema Touching Disability Film Fest executive director Dennis Borel and Blind Trip director Patrick Zimmerman discuss this year's festival, to be held Sept. 29, Oct. 5, and Oct. 6. Also, Looper director Rian Johnson breakdowns his new sci-fi thriller. Plus film reviews. Thursday, 9/27, 2-3 p.m.