AFS Doc Nights: 'How to Survive a Plague'

When desperate times called for desperate measures

"...AFS Doc Nights screens How to Survive a Plague on..."

May 10, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Five Slices of Life at AFS Doc Days

Memory, subjectivity, and nudism all under the truest of lenses

"...AFS Doc Days, AFS Cinema's annual exploration of the best,..."

May 25, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films

The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics

"...Mark your calendar: July 15. AFS Cinema, the two-screen theatre operated by Austin Film Society,..."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc Recommends: Micro Championship Wrestling

AFS Cinema, Friday, August 6, 2010

"...thing only happens at financially distressed gay bars on off-nights. The spectacle is much the same, except that in..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

AFS Invites You to a Sundance at Pioneer Farms

Festival brings drive-in screenings plus special streaming panels

"...it’s also selected a series of partner organizations like AFS around the country to act as satellite venues. Yet..."

Jan. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Toe to Toe With a Life in Dance

A ballerina inspires two choreographers in AFS Doc Nights offering

"...and dancing about architecture (a little "inside-the-Chronicle" reference). A documentary, however, might well be the perfect medium for presenting..."

June 6, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Of Stars and Scars

AFS Doc Nights: Nostalgia for the Light

"...Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has often lamented the scarcity of..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Where Fences Don't Make Good Neighbors

AFS Doc Nights: Purgatorio

"...Imagine a doc about the border, stripped of its hot-button politics and..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Not-So-Sunny Philadelphia

AFS Doc Nights presents 'Let the Fire Burn'

"...presents Let the Fire Burn as part of its AFS Doc Nights series on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 7:30pm..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

How'd He Do?

AFS Doc Nights: 'Koch'

"...Sydenham Hospital, a Harlem institution that employed many African-American doctors. He adds, in signature Koch apology-nullifying style, that he..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

He Ain't Heavy; He's My Blood Brother

AFS Doc Nights takes a trip to India for the next in its series

"...Film Society screens Blood Brother as part of its Doc Nights series on Tuesday, April 8, 7:30pm, at AFS..."

April 4, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Around the World in 519 Terrifying Days

'Maidentrip' circles back to Austin for Doc Nights

"...Filmmaker Jillian Schlesinger, recognizing an irresistible documentary (the film won the 2013 SXSW Audience Award) when..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...of free-form, noncommercial radio – would free-associate his then five-nights-a-week program, taking it, well, practically anywhere. There were random..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Triptych Bathed in Blood

AFS Doc Nights enters the Kingdom of Shadows

"...found inextricably laced together by bloodshed and fatalistic narcoma. Documentarian Bernardo Ruiz (Reportero, PBS series The Graduates) skillfully weaves..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

All Power to the People

AFS Doc Nights brings out the Black Panthers

"...The documentary utilizes data astutely – in the form of released..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

A Southern White in the Social-Justice Trenches

AFS Doc Nights screens 'Anne Braden: Southern Patriot'

"...There's a certain symmetry to having veteran Appalshop docmaker Anne Lewis telling the story of Southern civil rights..."

July 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Losing It at the Movies

AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film

"...– a better class of broad. Convening in the AFS trailer at Austin Studios for a third collaboration four..."

July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Do Not Resist Charts the Rise of the Militarization of Law Enforcement

Documentary offers a critical look at evolving present-day policing efforts

"...the backdrop, the first scenes of Craig Atkinson's police documentary Do Not Resist threaten violence, staged on the protest-filled..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Bitten by Truth

'High Tech, Low Life' explores citizen reporting in China

"...become their father confessor and itinerant legal advisor, telling documentarian Stephen Maing, "I feel a sense of responsibility beyond..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What We Talk About When We Talk About Debt

Jennifer Baichwal adapts to screen Margaret Atwood's ideas about indebtedness

"...But Baichwal had never adapted a book into a documentary until she was approached by the Canadian National Film..."

June 8, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

DVD Watch: Snitch

Director Ric Roman Waugh makes the Rock into an everyman

"...Survive a Plague (MPI) Featured as part of the AFS Doc Nites series, this harrowing documentary charts the battles..."

June 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A New Documentary Meditates on Texan Electronic Composer Pauline Oliveros

Celebrate the queer theorist behind Deep Listening this Sunday at AFS

"...ambient recordings, like her 1989 album Deep Listening, new documentary Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros captures her..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Legend Becomes Fact in New Wyatt Earp Documentary

New documentary And With Him Came the West explores the truth behind Hollywood's Wyatt Earp

"...complex essence of reality is often sacrificed. Mike Plante's documentary And With Him Came the West meditates on those..."

July 12, 2019 Screens Feature by Sam Russek

Nothing Civil About It

Austin Film Society spotlights 'Slavery by Another Name'

"...AFS Doc Nights screens Slavery by Another Name Wednesday, Nov...."

Nov. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Om Is Where the Heart Is

Austin Film Society presents 'One Track Heart'

"...Krishna Das, formerly known as Jeffrey Kagel. In the documentary One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das, named..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Life Before 'Mean Girls' and YOLO

Austin Film Society presents 'Teenage'

"...The resulting film, Teenage, is not your garden-variety historical documentary. Coloring way outside the lines of traditional nonfiction filmmaking,..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

An Actress Plays Herself in the Role of a Lifetime

AFS Doc Nights: Actress

"...the relationship between "acting" and "being yourself" in a documentary...."

Feb. 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Building a New Kingdom

AFS Doc nights: 'Sweet Dreams'

July 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Film Flam

Paul Stekler named Mentor of the Year, and other film news

"...chief advisor and cheerleader for a host of student documentary film projects that have also gone on to win..."

May 5, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bloomsday Confidential

Under the covers with James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

"...Ulysses Wednesday, June 12, 7pm, as part of its AFS Doc Nights series. Visit www.austinfilm.org for tickets and more..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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