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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 [...]
Global Zone Music Festival, Live from Austin Studios!
Videoranch 3D is bringing in some of the Austin area’s finest, as well as bands from both coasts, Europe, and Brazil to perform live in the Videoranch 3D environment and produced at Austin Studios. Acts include Del Castillo, Carolyn Wonderland, Kashmir, Asleep at the Wheel, Lal Meri, Vander Lee and many more. For those who [...]
Celebrate Kurosawa’s B-day, March 23
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Akira Kurosawa on March 23rd, the Criterion Collection has created the gorgeous collector’s set AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa. And for a limited time, you can save money on your purchase while supporting the Austin Film Society.
This deluxe, linen-bound set includes timeless masterpieces from one [...]
Festival Dispatch: Quadrangle at Sundance & Rotterdam
Another in our on-going series of festival dispatches, this time a day-by-day update from Amy Grappell, who took her 2009 TFPF-funded documentary short QUADRANGLE to Sundance and Rotterdam.
Texas Independents’ Day, Mar. 2
Local PBS affiliate KLRU brings together the 3 Austin-based documentarians who will screen their films on Independent Lens this year for a discussion and screening on Mar. 2.
Hall of Fame News from the Front Lines
Can’t wait for the big night, incredible program shaping up! These past few days we’ve received commitments to purchase a table from Robert Rodriguez, Elizabeth Avellan, IATSE 484, the Texas Film Commission, and Soundcheck Austin. Adding this to early commitments from Richard Linklater and William Morris Endeavor (Quentin Tarantino’s agent) and a full-page ad from [...]
City of Austin Declares February 2010 Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund Month
Be it known that
Whereas,
The Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, a project of the Austin Film Society, was founded by Richard Linklater in 1996 to support film projects by Texas filmmakers; and,
Whereas,
The Fund has awarded $1,000,000 in grants for films that have premiered at such top film festivals as Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Berlin, that have been [...]
Video from SYZYGY
Thanks to Anne Heller for providing video coverage of our recent Avant Cinema program with Marfa-based filmmaker Jennifer Lane, SYZYGY.
AFS’ Youth Film Program Nominated for Digital Inclusion Award - Vote!
This year, the Austin Film Society is facilitating over 300 free digital filmmaking workshops after school to disadvantaged students at six area schools. Students also participate in AFS programs, and are eligible for internships as well as college and summer camp scholarships.
You can help recognize this ongoing program by picking it for the “Community Choice [...]
