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Jason Dial enters a conference room overlooking the track at
Circuit of the Americas with a springy gait that belies his
football-player frame. The CEO of COTA since 2013, Dial has brought
along a giant sat-ellite-view map of the racetrack-and-amphitheater
complex, ready to show off the latest features that, he says, will
make this years Formula One United States Grand Prix weekend,
October 2325, a must-attend event not only for Austinites and all
Texans, but for the global, big-money set that jets to Monaco
and
other exotic locales for the circuits other races. In just a few
days, Dial will announce that Elton John and his full band will
entertain spectators right after this years race, and he wants
to demonstrate how the tracks giant infield will be trans-formed
into a music venue that can accommodate as many as 70,000
peo-plefive times the capacity of the complexs heretofore premier
concert setup, Austin360 Amphitheater. Then Dial starts in on COTAs
partnership with Pop Austin, the contemporary-art show that will
coincide with the race this year and include an exhibition at the
track, in addition to its main exhibit hall at Fair Market on East
Fifth Street downtown.
So for the price of a ticket, Im going to be able to go for the
weekend of F1 and not only see the highest-tech racing in the world
but also see an actual Andy Warhol or Richard Orlinski, and, at the
end of the day, see a two-hour Elton John concert, the first time
hes brought his full band to Austin in nine years? Dial says,
practi-cally bouncing in his chair. Wow! What an incredible
entertainment value.
Its illuminating that Dial is focused on providing value on
Formula One weekend. F1 events around the world usually are glitzy
affairs attended by people who arrive in private jets, buy bottle
service at special parties, and always dress the part of VIPs.
When Formula One came to Austin in 2012, after several years of
controversy over government funding and halting progress that more
than once threatened to kill the project, one of the big con-cerns
was whether anyone in Texas would care. Although F1 racing is the
worlds second-most popular sportafter soccerit, like soccer, is
simply not a big deal in this country. And, not insignificantly,
F1s flashy culture is some-thing of an odd fit with Austins
easygoing style. In some ways, the Austin Grand Prix has been
something of a grand experiment.
On one hand, all the extras Dial touts for this years race
weekend are part of an attempt to create as much appeal as possible
for the glamour set. On the other hand, Dial is betting that if he
makes Grand Prix weekend about more than a race, hell be able to
draw more mainstream Americans and Austinites wholl see it as a
good value, an all-around fun experience.
A former marketing executive with Procter & Gamble and the
NFLs Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dial is attempting a careful balancing
act, and one he appears to be performing well as the race matures
into a tentpole event on the Austin calendar. Attendance among
locals has grown since the inaugural
race, and Dial expects this year to reach new highs from locals
and out-of-towners. Last year the economic impact of the racethe
dollars flowing into Texas that wouldnt otherwisewas $900 million,
he says, and we expect it to be that or more this year. The race
community has lauded the track itself, and fans consistently rate
the event among the top F1 races worldwide. Yet, Dial knows he has
work to do. Our brand awareness isnt where I know it should be yet,
he says. And its absolutely critical to our future success that
Central Texas and Texas in general really embrace this event.
The F1-Austin marriage has, well, other partners, too; namely
the busi-nesses and events catering to visitors. Everybody has had
to adjust, says Ginger Leigh, one of the cocreators of Blu, the
most successful homegrown
race-weekend afterparty, which will be held this year at Brazos
Hall following a three-year takeover of the W Austin downtown. One
hallmark of an F1 weekend anywhere in the world is a nightly lineup
of ever-more exclusive VIP partiesseveral of which are like
traveling bacchanals that follow the race circuit from city to
city.
This city wasnt used to seeing parties on the scale that
accompany an F1-race weekend, Leigh says. People come here, and
theyre like, OK, the barbecue is great, but we want all-night
parties with Champagne flowing, pretty womenNew York or Vegas-style
nightlife. Blu has provided that, with bottle service and VIP
tables, elaborate light shows, a Brazilian martial arts
performance, and celebrity guests, including Matt LeBlanc and Keanu
Reeves, as well as drivers from the race.
But while all that sounds extravagant, its intentionally a step
less over-the-top than the previous two big traveling parties that
came to Austin: Amber Lounge and My Yacht Club. My take is that
those parties are not for Austin people; theyre more for people who
travel the circuit, says Kevin Smothers, editorial director of
Austin Social Planner, who follows the party scene closely. My
Yacht Club has trapeze artists hanging from
the ceiling delivering bottles of Champagne to people. The
overall theme is that the wow factor is magnified, and thats what
the crowd expects.
Smothers says much of the usual Austin social set makes it to
the race itselftheres a whole scene up in the suites,but he noticed
only a smat-tering of that crowd at the late-night parties the past
two years, after a heavy turnout the first year. Itll be
interesting to see how that plays out this year, he says. While My
Yacht Club will be taking over Ballet Austin again, Amber Lounge
has opted not to return this year, so the scene may be trending
more toward locally created celebrations such as Blu and a new
event co-spon-sored by COTA called Apex Nights that will take over
Fair Market after Pop Austin closes each day.
Unlike in Monaco or Barcelona, where the recreational and retail
scene around F1 tends to involve mega yachts, in Austin part of the
draw is ranch life. Dial says its common for people in groups to
rent a property outside
Im goIng to be able to
go for the weekend of
f1 and not only see the
hIghest-tech racIng In
the world but also
see an actual andy
warhol or rIchard
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band elton John
concert? wow! what
an IncredIble
entertaInment value.jason dial, cota ceo
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Art At the trAckPop Austin International Art Show will bring a
satellite
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Experience the best of the US Grand Prix.
WHEN: Friday, October 23
Sunday, October 25
WHERE: Circuit of
the Americas, 9201
Circuit of the Americas
Blvd., 512-301-6600;
circuitoftheamericas.com/f1
COST: 3-day passes start
at $169; Sunday-only
general admission tickets
start at $99.
WATCH IN STYLE: The
staff at the Paddock Club
travels to all F1 races
across the globe, so it
remains a consistently
top-tier hospitality offering.
A three-day pass includes
multicourse wining
and dining, a Mumm
Champagne bar, exclusive
access to the pit lanes,
driver interviews, and
more; pricing begins at
$4,200. The Skybox offers
spectacular views of the
race at Turns 2, 12, and
19; three-day passes are
$1,350. For event packages,
visit cotaexperiences.com.
F1 ftes have a tradition
of being abundant in both
celebrities and Champagne.
In years past, the original
Made in Monaco Amber
Lounge and My Yacht Club
have targeted international
revelers attending the US
Grand Prix, especially those
with the deepest of pockets
(in 2014, individual tickets
started at $325, while tables
were reportedly in excess of
$75,000). COTAs Pop Austin
partnership will result in a
slate of new parties this year,
Apex, which will take over
Fair Market for three nights
following illumination. Blu
will return this year, but at a
different location, at Brazos
Hall on October 23 and
October 24, says Ginger Leigh
who started the party with
British expat and Austin-
resident, Ian Weightman.
Blu has drawn a larger local
crowd than its imported
competitors. Leigh estimates
the party is about half local
and half visitor and says its
appeal to Austinites is its a
dressier occasion than the
city usually sees. The event
boasts The Full Tilt Fashion
Show (Saturday, October
24, 69 pm). Perhaps Blus
most democratic feature is
a $150 general admission
ticket with a cash bar. It
opens the door to a lot more
locals, Leigh says. You want
to keep the high-end nature
of the party and maintain a
certain demographic, but you
also want to cater to locals.
Blu inclusive packages are
$400 per person, and tables
range from a $5,000 table for
four to a $50,000 platinum
package for eight.
The Pop Austin International Art Show,
which attracted almost 5,000 visitors over
its debut weekend last year, is partnering
with Circuit of the Americas to provide
cultural programming for Formula One
weekend, including a satellite exhibit at
the track featuring work from Andy
Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Micky
Hoogendijk, among others.
At Pop Austins
principal show
downtown,
Illumination,
light will be the
shared medium.
Attendees can
expect blacked-out
rooms lit by vehicles, including neon,
projections, and LED. We wanted to
offer an experience, and we have
achieved that, says curator Lana
Carlson. The nature of the exhibition is
inherently immersive. There will be fewer
pieces than last year (five of the installa-
tions are truly expansive), and 17 artists
from all over the worldChile, Italy,
Korea, Japan, and, of course, Austin.
Among the local artists are Bale Creek
Allen and Jason Archer, both of whom
were also featured in the inaugural show.
The collaboration with COTA is sure
to draw a larger, more diverse crowd to the
main exhibition. I feel like joining forces
with Formula One enables us to show the
world that Austin is more than a city of
artists, but rather a capitol of culture,
says creative director Steve Carlson.
Future exhibitions will have different
themes. If Carlson has
his way, sound will be
one of them.
Illumination will take place at Fair Market (1100 E. Fifth St.,
popaustin.com). The show will kick off
with a ticketed VIP Opening Party on Thursday, October 22, from
8 to 11 pm, for art enthusiasts, collectors, and sponsors. Pop
Austin will remain open to the public on Friday, October 23,
through Sunday, October 25, from 10 am to 6 pm daily. Tickets for
regular show hours over the weekend are $40 per person (children 12
and under are free with a ticketed adult). Tickets for the VIP
Opening Party are $200. Pop Austins satellite exhibit at the track
will be located in the Grand Plaza and is available to all race
ticketholders.
photography courtesy of circuit of the americas (views of the
race); adela andea
(illumination (bottom right)), nonotak (illumination (top)),
shane guffog (red swirls); dave pedley (blu)
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THE WRITER
JUSTIN MARKS
Why Austin: Screenwriter Justin
Marks attributes much of his success
in Hollywood to his decision to move
from there to Austin two years ago with
his dogs and wife, Rachel Kondo, a fel-
low at UTs Michener Center. Marks
who wrote the script for Disneys
upcoming live-action adaptation of The
Jungle Book, starring Scarlett Johansson,
Idris Elba, and Bill Murrayis now writ-
ing the much-anticipated sequel to Top
Gun, which will bring back Tom Cruise
as Maverick. He and Kondo have laid
down roots in Crestview, where, every
day, Marks rides his bike to Little Deli
for lunch. It provides this true peace,
he says. You get up in the morning and
its quiet, and you go grab a coffee and
feel like you see the same faces every
day. Its the place to write.
His Destiny: Growing up in
Houston, Marks saw Top Gun in the
theater seven glorious times. From the
opening frame, the sound of the score,
and the way the carrier was shot in the
magic hour of light, I knew then that Id
never seen any experience like what a
movie could be, and I wanted to write
them, he says. Ive kind of been writ-
ing the movie my whole life.
Whats Next: While in Austin,
Marks got into a magical rhythm
and churned out the script for the
upcoming Starz series Counterpart, an
espionage thriller starring Oscar winner
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the risk taker
NOAH HAWLEY
Why Austin? The Emmy-winning
Fargo showrunner likes to say he mar-
ried into Austin. He and his wife, a
multigenerational Texan, were living in
New York when he wrapped on the de-
tective series the Unusuals. The couple
came to Austin in 2009 to visit her folks
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experience shooting the short-lived
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crews in Austin are so amazing because
the flm community here sprang up
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The Power of Bad Ideas: He ad-
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brothers movie masterpiece, Fargo, for
the small screen was a monumentally
bad idea. But FX agreed to let him
approach it as a stand-alone, true-crime
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series, this 10-hour movie idea, feels like
a new medium.
Whats Next: The second season
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different town and with a new cast of
characters. Its like I followed up my
colossally bad idea [by] getting rid of
actors that everybody loved, [just] to do
it again! he says, laughing. Meanwhile,
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next novel, an emotional thriller.
in his words: Id rather raise my kids in Austin [than
LA]. This is a place where people are creative for the
value of being creative.
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THE MENTOR
PAUL STEKLER
Why Austin: Seduced from New
York in 1997 to teach at UTs Depart-
ment of Radio-Television-Film, award-
winning documentary flmmaker Paul
Stekler was tasked with completely
overhauling the schools production
program. [More than] 18 years later
I can confdently say we have the best
production program for its price in the
United States, says Stekler, who has
chaired the department since 2010. He
arrived in Austin just as the flm scene
was catching fre here. SXSW was
much smaller, and the Austin Film Soci-
ety was just gearing up, he says. It was
a really cool place to be, and we were
able to really revise the flm program
here, which was in large part a driver
of the growth of the flm community.
His Impact: Any Austin filmmaker
worth his or her salt probably owes
some form of debt to Stekler, named
Mentor of the Year by Variety in 2014.
Today the RTF program has 1,000
students, many of whom want to stay
and work in Texas. I used to joke
about looking for the film community
in New York. There were tons of film-
makers, but there really is a filmmak-
ing community here.
Whats Next: From the originals
like Linklater and Rodriguez to the new
generation such as Jeff Nichols, Kat
Candler, and Ben Steinbauer, everyone
is a friend and supporter of the talent
RTF is helping groom. This is a really
wonderful place to live as a flmmaker,
says Stekler, who will host the 50th-
anniversary student showcase screening
at the State Theater on November 1.
Clothing and accessories Steklers own
in his words: If you have a support group that you
work with and projects that you really want to do,
it seems that being in Austin is just fine, as
opposed to being unemployed in LA.
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THE BREAKOUT
JESSE PLEMONS
Why Austin: Jesse Plemons, who
can instantly transform his corn-fed mug
from earnest bleeding heart to dead-eyed
sociopath, remembers coming to Austin
as a ffth-grader to see the State Capitol.
That feld trip was fun, but it wasnt until
the small-town boyPlemons grew up on
a ranch in Mart, outside of Wacomoved
here to play the eternally good and loyal
Landry Clarke on Friday Night Lights
that the city hooked him. My world just
changed, he says of his adopted home-
town. The people, the creativity, it feeds
me in every way.
Unstoppable: Since Friday Night
Lights, Plemonss career has soared, with
juicy roles as a stolid shop boy in the HBO
miniseries Olive Kitteridge and a stunningly
evil and murderous member of a white
supremacist gang on the fnal seasons
of Breaking Bad. He firted with various
shades of menace alongside Johnny Depp
in the gangster drama Black Mass, re-
leased in September, and will next be seen
playing the tragically devoted husband
of Kirsten Dunst, a small-town beautician
with big-city aspirations, in the second
chapter of Fargo (premiering on FX on
October 12).
Whats Next: Whenever his directors
yell Cut, Plemons races back to Austin,
where he owns a place on the East Side.
All of his best friends are here, like his old
Cowboy and Indian band members, who
are thinking of reuniting after a two-year
hiatus. In the meantime, Plemons is on
the lookout for a project to flm back on
his home turf. Friday Night Lights was
the best of all possible worlds, he says.
in his words:
The goal is to bring more work back to Austin, because its the
place where I feel more like myself than anywhere in the world.
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THE PROMOTER
BRIAN GANNON
Why Austin: Brian Gannon moved to Austin 10 years ago with a
keen desire to work in the flm industry. He cut his teeth as a
production intern, working on movies like Friday the 13th, and was
immediately struck by the easy camaraderie found among Texas crews.
(Austin has 700 union crew members and probably 1,400 who are
nonunion.) Gannon joined the Austin Convention & Visitors
Bureau as its flm and marketing manager, and this summer was tapped
to be the next di-rector of the Austin Film Commission, replacing
Gary Bond, who over his 30-year career assisted with many movies
produced locally, including Dazed and Confused and Spy Kids.
New Role: Gannon will continue Bonds mission of promoting
Austins flm industry to the world, wooing productions with the
citys wealth of local talent and diversity of location. Every movie
that comes to town puts money into the local economy, from putting
local technicians to work to hotel rooms to renting cars to lumber
to construct sets, he says. Gannon adds that in the past 22 months
more than $170 million was spent here on flm projects, including
movies, TV shows, and commercials.
The Great Challenge: The hurdle that Gannonand the flm community
at largefaces is reduced incentives af-ter lawmakers slashed $63
million from the Texas Moving Image Industry In-centive program in
May. Productions go to where they can get the best deal back from
state funding, he explains. He promises to work hard on behalf of
local flmmakers, while also persuad-ing executives on both coasts
to come enjoy some fne Austin hospitality.
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cutbacks far worse than we are in Texas.
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