Texas filmmakers Elizabeth Avellan and Greg Carter will hold an on-stage discussion about movies on March 3 at the Glassel School of Art’s Freed Auditorium as part of a two-day presentation that includes the screening of blacktino, a new teen comedy that Avellan executive produced.

The movie, directed by Avellan’s son, Aaron Burns, will screen at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 2 at the Museum of Fine Arts’ Brown Auditorium.

The film is described as a “darkly humorous teen comedy” about an overweight biracial computer nerd struggling to find his place in a mostly white suburban school. He find solace in an eclectic mix of social outcasts in the school’s theater department.

The movie won the best director award at HBO’s New York International Latino FIlm Festival.

Elizabeth Avellan is perhaps best known as the producer of such films as Sin City, Spy Kids, Machete, Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn, hits written and directed by her former husband, Robert Rodriguez. The pair founded Austin-based Troublemaker Studios together in 2000. Films produced by Avellan have collectively grossed more than $1 billion.

Carter, who has been friends with Avellan since they met as students at Rice University, has directed or produced 17 independent movies, including Fifth Ward, which was named best feature at the New Orleans Black Film Festival and was screened at the 1998 South by Southwest Film Festival.

Carter’s most recent feature was A Gang Love Love Story, which was screened at the museum last year. I conducted an on-stage discussion and Q&A with him after the screening.

The March 3 discussion will be moderated by Alfred Cervantes, deputy director of the Houston Film Commission. More information is available at www.mfah.org/film.