A weekly KOOP show with a hyperlocal focus on Austin filmmakers, local film societies, festivals and screenings, plus reviews, soundtrack blocks and a Top 5 events guide.
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Lights Camera Austin is a weekly film program on KOOP Radio 91.7 FM, Austin's community radio station, hosted by critic Robert Sims. It airs Wednesday afternoons and is built around the local scene: interviews with area filmmakers, previews of festivals and conventions, coverage of screenings by Austin film societies, film reviews, blocks of soundtrack music and a Top 5 guide to the week's film events. Sims has written for the Austin American-Statesman, Hollywood.com, Miami New Times, Shock Till You Drop and Total Film, and is a member of the Austin Film Critics Association.
The show's website was posting weekly interviews and reviews by January 2014, under a 2013 copyright. Its archive, organized by guest, runs from first-time Austin directors to institutions such as the American Genre Film Archive and the Austin Asian American Film Festival, and includes a July 2024 entry titled AFCA/Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Sale. In 2020 the Austin Chronicle included it in a list of the best Austin movie podcasts, noting the archive dating back to 2014.
| Its reviews and interviews are archived online back to 2014, and the Austin Chronicle listed it among the best Austin movie podcasts in 2020. | ↗︎ |
| Its interview archive includes the American Genre Film Archive, the Austin Asian American Film Festival and a July 2024 entry titled AFCA/Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Sale. | ↗︎ |
| Name | Role | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Sims | host; AFCA member | by 2013- | ↗︎ |