Houston Cinema Arts Festival

HCAF 2024 will feature a wide variety of curated feature films with a focus on the diverse cultural community of Houston, Texas.

HCAF 2024 will also see the tenth Anniversary of CineSpace, our annual short film competition with NASA, as well as the fifth annual regional short film competition Borders - No Borders.

Our full festival lineup has been announced. Check out the schedule to discover the incredible films, performances, and special guests we have in store!

Schedule of Events:

7:30 pm: The Life of Sean DeLear

A pioneering fixture of Los Angeles' "Silver Lake scene" in the '80s and '90s, artist, musician, and globetrotting scenester Sean DeLear transcended the barrier of race, gender, and sexuality decked out in a wig and pumps as the lead singer of the power pop/punk band Glue, and later as a cabaret performer in Vienna. Alongside the posthumous 2022 publication of I Could Not Believe It, fearlessly intimate and explicit teenage diaries chronicling pre-AIDS queer culture, THE LIFE OF SEAN DELEAR is a vivid, in-your-face sketch of an artist always in the process of creating, be it music or themselves. Culling from DeLear's video archives and writings and reminiscences from friends Ann Magnuson, Rick Owens, Michele Lamy and more, director Markus Zizenbacher crafts a loving reverie, as rhapsodic a song as a documentary. But make no mistake - this ain't no ballad; it's punk.

Director: Markus Zizenbacher
Runtime: 82 minutes