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AFS Selects: PROJECT NIM
I knew I’d be in for an emotional roller coaster ride right from the beginning of James Marsh’s brilliant documentary when two-week-old Nim is taken from his mother. Shot with a tranquilizer gun, Carolyn tries valiantly to hold on to her infant son before lapsing into semi-consciousness. Wealthy, adventurous Stephanie LaFarge is handed the baby [...]
AFS Selects: Aki Kaurismaki’s LE HAVRE
Written and directed by Aki Kaurismaki, Cinematography by Timo Salminen Finland/France/Germany, 2011, distributed by Janus Films, color, 93 min. Cast: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Little Bob, Jean-Pierre Leaúd French with English subtitles Doctor, trying to console a terminally ill woman: “Sometimes there are miracles.” Patient: “Not in my neighborhood.” True to [...]
AFS Alumni at the Austin Film Festival
The 18th Annual Austin Film Festival begins this Thursday and runs October 20 – 27 with panels, screenings and parties throughout Austin. We’d like highlight those films selected to screen by filmmakers that have been supported through the Austin Film Society’s filmmaker programs like the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund (TFPF) and the Docs-in-Progress and Narratives-in-Progress [...]
Austin Film Society Grants $111,000 To Texas Filmmakers
The Austin Film Society is very proud to announce the recipients of its 2011 Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund (TFPF), which this year gave away $92,000 to 21 projects from emerging Texas filmmakers. In addition to cash grants of $81,000, AFS gave away $6,000 worth of Kodak film stock and $5,000 in in-kind services from Seattle-based [...]
AFS & Alamo Drafhouse Present SLACKER 2011
The Austin Film Society and The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema are excited to present the World Premiere of SLACKER 2011, a re-imagining of Richard Linklater’s SLACKER by 24 Austin filmmakers. The premiere screening will be on Wednesday, August 31st at 7 PM at The Paramount Theatre (713 Congress Ave). Red carpet arrivals with Linklater, cast of [...]
Steinbauer’s WINNEBAGO MAN Streaming Free
You know how much we like to toot horns for local filmmakers! If you haven’t yet seen Ben Steinbauer’s WINNEBAGO MAN, now you have no excuse. It’s streaming free for the next two weeks on Snag Films and you simply must catch it. If you’ve already seen it, you are probably ready to see it [...]
AFS Presents SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D, Aug 13th
The Austin Film Society is excited to present the Austin Premiere of
THE FIRST MOVIE: Mark Cousins and His Young Kurdish Filmmakers
Smiling children acting goofy in front of a camera, playing and then fighting with balloons, telling charming stories about animals, and giggling at bovine flatulence. Sheep and goats on hillsides, skies achingly blue, green groves of trees and plants, a river running through a village. All these images conjure up a bucolic scene, which could [...]
Texas Arrives at the Los Angeles Film Festival
All of us here at the Austin Film Society are very excited about the kick-off of the Los Angeles Film Festival, as it opens with the World Premiere of BERNIE, the new film from AFS Founder & Artistic Director Richard Linklater. In this delightfully poker-faced black comedy—based on a true story—an East Texas assistant funeral [...]
AFS & The Alamo Drafthouse Launch SLACKER 2011 Film & Campaign
Participating Filmmakers & Teams Miguel Alvarez Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas AFS Film Club Bradley Beesley John Bryant Bob Byington Mike Dolan Sam Wainwright Douglas Jay Duplass Chris Eska Paul Gordon Amy Grappell Duane Graves Berndt Mader Geoff Marslett Spencer Parsons PJ Raval Bob Ray Reel Women UT Chapter Elisabeth Sikes Karen Skloss Ben Steinbauer David & [...]
