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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Studio Lo-Fi Sci-Fi
There is a fairy tale element to film studios. The buildings are huge, often resembling – or in the case of the Austin Studios, actually originating as – aircraft hangars. Inside, anything is possible: you could walk through the massive doors and be in Paris or the jungles of Vietnam, or you could stand in [...]
