Louis Black Editor

Louis Black was one of the original writers of the CinemaTexas Program Notes. He cofounded The Austin Chronicle, where he was the editor for thirty-six years, and SXSW, where he is a director, and was a founding board member of the Austin Film Society. He has written extensively on film, music, and politics. In 2016, he and Karen Bernstein directed the documentary Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, which made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival.

A recent MA graduate of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, Collins Swords is a creative assistant to Louis Black, with whom he works in project development, promotion, outreach, editing, and archival research.