Texas-born L.A. filmmaker Andrew Pedone in town for special screening of his new film

Tomorrow — “Texas Independence Day,” some might say — L.A. filmmaker Anthony Pedone will bring to San Marcos his riveting new film, honed on a 1990s nowheresville punk scene in the Lone Star State: “An American In Texas.”

San Marcos Cinema Club teams up with the Center for the Study of the Southwest, as well as AquaBrew and Gil’s Broiler, to host the rising-star director who attended Texas State University over 20 years ago.

Pedone’s film is rife with punk-rock icons: for example, Jello Biafra, of the Dead Kennedys, portrays the mayor of Victoria, TX — where Pedone grew up and now helms the excellent Victoria Independent Film Festival.

At 7 p.m., the Price Center Ballroom hosts the first-in-Hays-County screening of this raucously enrapturing narrative — a darling of the national film-fest circuit recently.

For $5, attendees not only get to watch the film, enjoy Q&A afterward with Pedone and his co-writer Stephen Floyd, but also Augustine Goots Chavez, a norteño trio, performs prior to the film, and local punk legends Eastside Suicides play afterward. 

AquaBrew will provide a complementary keg of their delicious “American (in Texas) IPA” Skyscraper, and snacks will be on hand, as well.