AFS @ SXSW

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival begins on Friday and runs March 12 - 20 with screenings, panels and parties throughout Austin. AFS is sponsoring 4 screenings, participating in the trade show and staff members are appearing on panels. In addition, many filmmakers we have supported are in the festival line-up. AFS is all over SXSW!
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View from Mars

When I was kid my favorite films were always the ones that created new and amazing worlds. I loved the fantasies, the westerns and the science fictions. I saw Star Wars when I was four and got hooked on the cinema. By the time I was seven I could quote the entire animated version of [...]

Summer Filmmaking Camp at Austin Studios

Come make films with the pros at Austin Studios! AFS digital filmmaking camps teach immersive narrative and experimental techniques. In a fun project-based environment, students work in teams to craft short digital films and animations, from developing the kernel of a project idea to final edit and screening of their work. AFS camps at Austin [...]

Richard on Orson

Richard Linklater will thankfully never be pigeonholed as a genre director. His body of work ranges from indie films such as the counterculture defining Slacker, to studio projects like School of Rock, to the socially conscious and unapologetic Fast Food Nation.  His latest project, Me and Orson Welles, veers in an utterly new direction.  Adapted [...]

Talking Trash with Allison and Andy

Austin Studios will be this weekend’s host of The Trash Project, the latest and largest endeavor of Austin choreographer Allison Orr.  The creative director of Forklift Danceworks is teaming up with select personnel from the city’s Solid Waste Services Department to combine grace, skill and garbage trucks in a free, hour-long show beginning at 7:30pm [...]

AFS Outreach in Romania- Part 2

WEEK TWO:
Two students have begun showing up several hours early in the morning for class. We come early just to let them get their hands on the cameras. One of those students is so obsessed with the camera, he wants to use it all class long. I show him a number of angles and techniques [...]

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