This article is about the co-founder of The Austin Chronicle and SXSW. For the comedian, see Lewis Black. For the jazz banjoist, see Lou Black.
Louis Black is an American journalist and businessman who is the co-founder of The Austin Chronicle, an alternative weeklynewspaper published in Austin, Texas, and was the newspaper's editor from its inception until his retirement on August 8, 2017.[1][2] He has written over 600 articles in his column in that newspaper.[3] Black is also the co-founder of the South by Southwest Festival,[4] also located in Austin, although the festival operates separately from the Chronicle. He also is a founding partner in Toronto's North by Northeast music and film festival.[citation needed]
Black was born in Teaneck, New Jersey where he was childhood friends with film critic Leonard Maltin and singer Phoebe Snow.[5] Maltin and Black attended Teaneck High School and regularly prowled the rep cinemas of Manhattan as teens before graduating in 1968.[6] He moved to Austin to study film at The University of Texas where he received a BFA in 1980,[7] and became knowledgeable about B-movies, including the work of Russ Meyer. Black helped run film nights at the university before starting the Chronicle with film friend Nick Barbaro.
Black was an original board member of the Austin Film Society and is a past president of that organization. In 2000, Texas Monthly Editor Evan Smith and Black working with AFS established the Texas Film Hall of Fame.[8]
^Menconi, David. "SxSW @ 25: Texas Ex Louis Black reflects on the little festival he almost didn't start", The Alcalde, March / April 2011, pp. 38-43. Accessed September 14, 2011. "Black's career is idiosyncratic and it should be inspirational to anyone who doesn't quite fit in. His early years in Teaneck, N.J., were distinguished mostly by dyslexia, attention-deficit issues, tone-deafness, poor math skills, and poorer handwriting.... Before long, Black and [Leonard] Maltin were skipping after-school studies to go watch movies. 'I wasn't going to do any better in school, and Leonard wasn't going to do any worse,' Black says."
^Black, Louis. "Page Two", The Austin Chronicle, October 4, 1996. Accessed February 12, 2020. "(Maltin had sold the first edition our senior year in high school).... Back in the summer of 1964, when Leonard and I were 13, we lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, just a short drive from New York City."
^"Independent Lens . THE ORDER OF MYTHS . The Filmmakers - PBS". PBS.
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