Pandemic Production, One Year Later: Aaron B. Koontz, Co-founder, Paper Street Pictures

"Next thing I know, we had six films in post."

"...So when Aaron Koontz, co-founder of Austin/L.A. production house Paper Street Pictures, saw the pandemic was settling in for..."

July 9, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Paper Street Podcast Gives a Voice to the Indie Film Industry

With movie production in lockdown, try the sounds of Paper Street

"...little for new and aspiring filmmakers. That's where the Paper Street Podcast, the new biweekly audio series from Austin-based..."

May 22, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lucky McKee Heads to Paper Street for Old Man

Texas horror crew team up for new Stephen Lang thriller

"...Don't Breathe) and Marc Senter (Starry Eyes) for Austin-based Paper Street Pictures...."

Nov. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Street Art Enters Into a New Era

With the city cracking down on graffiti and Hope Outdoor Gallery set to close, artists look for permission to paint

"...or even a felony carrying a prison sentence. So street artists painting illegally will often get out at night...."

July 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Taking Pictures

This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.

"...account. Perhaps the worst offenders in this array of coated-paper dinosaurs are the so-called art books, 90% of which..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

How to Paper a Powder Room

New books for when you've got a little time on your hands

"...What's Whatby Matthew Gasteier Villard Books, 240 pp., $15 (paper)..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Robyn Hitchcock's Moving Pictures

Jonathan Demme Films Storefront Hitchcock

"...real storefront, an abandoned used clothing store on 14th Street. You can look through the windows behind us and..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Emily Hagins Says Sorry About the Demon

Austin director teams with Shudder and local producers Paper Street

"...Up, Tony Phillips, has joined forces again with ATX-based Paper Street Pictures for her new feature, Sorry About the..."

Aug. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In Production: Something Evil at Brackenridge Hospital in Scare Package

Wrestler-turned-actor Dustin Runnels getting bloody for new anthology horror

"...in Scare Package, the upcoming horror anthology from Austin's Paper Street Pictures...."

Sept. 28, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmaker Emily Hagins Says Sorry About the Demon

Hagins brings her horror-comedy home for Other Worlds Film Festival

"...half of a double bill from Austin-based production company Paper Street Pictures with Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge...."

Dec. 2, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Goes Delving into the UnderWorlds

Senior Programmer Dan Repp digs into two days of horror

"...That includes Revealer, the latest from Austin-based Paper Street Pictures, which has just been acquired by horror..."

May 19, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Horror Crew Launch Bloodoath Filmmaker Consulting

Paper Street creatives join forces with genre experts

"...all stages of production and distribution: from the Austin-based Paper Street Pictures, Ashleigh Snead (producer on The Ranger, The..."

Nov. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rad Chad Lives!

Jeremy King, star of Scare Package, talks VHS heaven

"...When they were developing Paper Street Pictures about eight or nine years later, [Scare..."

Oct. 22, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Return of the Revenge of the Final Girl in Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge

Zoe Graham and the new rules of horror in Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge

Dec. 30, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to the Future at the Final Other Worlds Film Festival

Founder Bears Rebecca Fonté looks back and forward

"...I'll Take Your Dead and The Heretics, and Austin-based Paper Street Pictures, who return for the final year with..."

Dec. 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Film News

Austin at the Oscars, and cinemas move towards reopening

"...Paper Street Pictures is going international. The Austin production house..."

April 30, 2021 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

This Is Your Brain on Conspiracies As Duncan Hits Panic Fest

John Valley's comedy warns about ignoring conspiracy theorists

"...and that got it on the radar of Austin-based Paper Street Pictures cofounder Aaron B. Koontz (Scare Package, The..."

April 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pandemic Production: Aaron B. Koontz, Director

“I’m lucky to have two movies coming out. I can’t complain too much.”

"...Aaron B. Koontz, Paper Street Pictures cofounder, Writer/Director/Producer Credits Include: Camera Obscura, Scare..."

July 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Camera Obscura

Writer/director Aaron B. Koontz on the rise of Austin horror

"...but I don't think we executed it very well. Paper Street Pictures, which is the local company me and..."

July 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Before the Fall

Browsing the stacks

"...knocking over Isabelle Dalhousie in Edinburgh, and 44 Scotland Street cascading into the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, and so..."

March 28, 2011 Books Post by Nick Barbaro

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...Where No One Has Gone Before: A History in Pictures text by J.M. Dillard, introduction by William Shatner (Pocket..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Rock This Way

The Semi-Annual, Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Rock & Roll Books Section

"...Jastfelder and Stefan Kassel (Little, Brown and Company, $29.95 paper), one stops to admire the picture of Deneuve that..."

March 20, 1998 Books Feature

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...massive clean-up operations. No plates, no trays, just butcher paper and meat. In Taylor, the Mueller family has been..."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Postmarks

Libertarians Say No to Doggett

"...in the following areas: [goes on to list 6th Street downtown, the Drag, and Congress Avenue]...."

Oct. 16, 1998 Column

Dirty Words

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"...going to go, look! (laughs). A lot of the pictures on the covers don't go with the stories. We..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Chapter 3: Crazy Weekly

September 1988-August 1991

"...will be the most event-filled in Chronicle history: The paper goes weekly, gets thrown out of and then reinstated..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

"...behind such vile garbage lowers the credibility of your newspaper. For shame!..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I realize that the story needs attention, but putting pictures of dead cats on the cover page is exploitative..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Column

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...which is exactly what we've been doing as a paper and what we're especially celebrating in this issue. ......"

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

A Different Kind of World

Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about his life as it was and as it might have been

"...went into New York. The place was on Canal Street. It was called MLJ – it was the forerunner..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

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