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 [...]

AFS Outreach in Romania- Part 1

It was an unlikely proposal. Romanian filmmaker Sergiu Lupse and I would travel to a small village in Transylvania to conduct an intensive collaborative film project workshop over three weeks this summer.
The project included a daily filmmaking workshop for disadvantaged teens focusing on empowering them to create works about their community and views, the [...]

An Open Letter to the Community

There have been a lot of rumors flying around over the past week about what is happening at Austin Studios and before things get out of hand, we all need to take a breath and get on the same page. Misinformation is threatening to cause a division in our community that could jeopardize a lot [...]

Important Update from Austin Studios

UPDATE: Besides the FAQs below, there are additional answers to questions from the June 25th public forum here.
The Austin Film Society is pleased to announce that we have nearly completed negotiations with a new long-term tenant for Austin Studios, Soundcheck Austin. We began negotiations with this potential tenant back in October of 2008, when we [...]

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