Charles Horak and Martin Scorsese

On Film
Saturday 11am

On Film has aired weekly on KTEP since 1993 and covers contemporary and classic films, filmmaking, film industry developments and the talents of local filmmakers through insightful interviews, reviews and commentary.

Host Charles Horak
Charles Horak didn't sleep much as a child, preferring instead to watch movies on late night TV. Not much has changed since then, except that he now shares his life-long passion for movies with others. Horak's association with On Film began in the summer of 2002 when he was interviewed by the show's originator, Cynthia Haines. In the summer of 2005, Horak took over for Haines as host of the show.

Since 1996, Horak and his family have lived in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. He is vice president of a family-owned construction and development firm.

Thanks to On Film, and some fine folks he’s met along the way, Horak has been involved with a number of film initiatives and organizations.

He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (www.bfca.org), was awarded a fellowship to the 2007 Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and his 2008 reviews of Shine A Light, Hellboy II and Iron Man were nominated for an Entertainment Journalism award by the Los Angeles Press Club (thankfully Kenneth Turan won).

In 2002, Horak founded The Film Salon (www.filmsalon.org), a monthly film series devoted to the screening and discussion of classic and important films from the last century.

In 2003, along with local film historian Jay Duncan, Horak founded the IT! Came From the ‘50s Film Festival which ran four wonderful years at the Chamizal National Memorial.

In 2008, Horak helped found and became the artistic director of the Plaza Classic Film Festival (www.plazaclassic.org) in El Paso. The Plaza Classic is the world’s largest film festival dedicated to the presentation of classic films and is centered around El Paso’s premier movie palace – the Plaza Theatre. The Festival drew more than 30,000 attendees in its first year, and continues to grow in every way.

Charles Horak is the father of three budding cinephiles and husband of Dr. Ann Branan Horak, professor of English, Religious Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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Audio Archive

July 24, 2010 Texas Film Roundup - Charles talks with Elizabeth Hansen, Outreach and Education Coordinator for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI). TAMI will be present at the Plaza Classic Film Festival on Aug. 14 & 15 to collect any materials that El Pasoans may have in their basements of home movies, commercials, or any images captured on film or video. www.texasarchive.org

July 17, 2010 Plaza Classic Film Festival - Charles talks with Eric Pearson, Executive Vice President of the El Paso Community Foundation, which is sponsoring the 3rd annual Plaza Classic Film Festival, the largest classic film festival in the world. Hear about the bigger, better festival headed our way this year, August 5-15, at the historic Plaza Theatre. www.plazaclassic.com

July 10, 2010 Film Slam - Charles talks with Ray Sanchez and Maya Sanchez of GhostLight Creative. GhostLight is hosting its 1st ever Film Slam, in which local filmmakers and wannabe filmmakers are invited to create a film 8 minutes in length or less, from conception to completion, in a period of 48 hours.

July 3, 2010 Film Terms, part 2 - In a rebroadcast from April 25, 2009, Charles talks with film historian Jay Duncan about some mostly-French terms used in cinema, including "genre," "film noir," "femme fatale," and "cinema verite."

July 3, 2010 Film Terms, part 2 (online extra) - Charles & Jay Duncan talk about a few more mostly-French film terms that we didn't have time for on the regular show. We'll also learn about a technique used by Alfred Hitchcock called a "MacGuffin."

June 26, 2010 Film Terms, part 1 - From an April 18, 2009, broadcast, Charles talks with film historian Jay Duncan about those obscure film terms we see scrolling up the final credits of our favorite movies. What's a grip? A best boy? A foley artist?

June 26, 2010 Film Terms, part 1 (online extra) - In this online exclusive, Charles and film historian Jay Duncan talk about a few more film terms that we didn't have time for on the regular show.