AFF Announces Audience Awards

The viewers have spoken

"...Three days after the conclusion of its 2014 edition, the Austin Film Festival has released the titles..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFF Snags Jon Stewart’s Rosewater

The Humbling, The Last 5 Years tapped for opening night

"...Oct. 27-30 for a midterm elections package called Democalypse 2014: South by South Mess, savvy cineastes took note of..."

Sept. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

AFF Announces Award Winners

Narrative feature jury award goes to The Kings Surrender

"...the fest in both its film and screenplay competitions. AFF also honored this year's three lifetime achievement award recipients,..."

Oct. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

AFF Just Announced a Boatload of Programming

Spring and summer are chock-full of screenings and talks

"...Yesterday, AFF dropped an impressive slate of events for the spring..."

March 20, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

I, Tonya Smashes Into AFF

Biopic of ice skating's greatest scandal and more for fest

"...in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. This morning, AFF also confirmed that Jim Gaffigan (who plays U.S. District..."

Oct. 10, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFF Lauds Matthew Weiner

‘Mad Men’ creator to receive Outstanding Television Writer Award

"...– he probably knows how to handle the riff raff at this point...."

June 3, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Screen Play

What to do at the writers' conference

"...we're in a second Golden Age right now, and AFF's programming is a terrific showcase of the medium and..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Five Marquee Movies at Austin Film Festival 2022

Headliners and Oscar contenders at this year's AFF

"...critical response to his adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter's 2014 play about an obese man trying to fix his..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces (Almost) Full Slate

Opening and closing night films still to come

"...AFF 2014’s just-announced slate includes films with some of the..."

Sept. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

For Your Consideration

What to see at the 21st annual Austin Film Festival

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Festival: Jon Stewart Closes Out Fest

Jon Stewart caps his week in Austin with Rosewater debut

"...Jon Stewart completed his takeover of Austin last night..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Screens Post by Fernie Martinez

Film Flam

‘No No’ nabs distribution, Google Glass gets the boot, & more film news

"...No No: A Dockumentary was a favorite at SXSW 2014. (The Chronicle praised its portrait of the pioneering but..."

June 12, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...Uehashi published her fantasy novel Shika no Ō in 2014, but the new animated film version, with its story..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Films For the First Wave of Austin Film Festival

Fugitive Dreams, Horton Foote doc in first wave

"...at the streaming Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada, AFF announced that the fest (running Oct. 22-29) will be..."

Aug. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Just Mercy Will Close This Year’s Austin Film Festival

Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx star in true-life legal drama

"...is adapted from attorney and justice advocate Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 memoir of the same name. Director Destin Daniel Cretton..."

Oct. 9, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Zane Holtz is a Hunter Killer

Austin transplant on going Hollywood and AFF in the same week

"...When it comes to Hunter Killer, he said, "This..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam: Neon, Blue Starlite, and Kiss

Movie news, Tim League, and Gene Simmons (not dueting, sadly)

"...• This comes after a shake-up at AFF: its Young Filmmakers Program Coordinator Colin Hyet has been..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Farewell to the Future at the Final Other Worlds Film Festival

Founder Bears Rebecca Fonté looks back and forward

"...unique and deeply missed Housecore Horror Film Festival, in 2014 Fonté and the team held the first Other Worlds,..."

Dec. 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

NEA Backs Austin Film Festival's On Story

The writer's film festival gets national support

"...AFF originally launched On Story in 2011 as a PBS..."

July 12, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Picks

Local flavor and Texas ties

"...of the big releases hitting town this weekend for AFF (perhaps not as intense as those Astros World Series..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Austin Film Festival Review: Shorts Program 10 – Everything’s Shorter in Texas

Series highlights strong range of local filmmakers

"...seriously for the dramatic works that bookended the program. AFF’s curation here was ingenious: in the first film, “The..."

Oct. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

ATX Film News: What Kat Candler Did Next

Fear the Walking Dead returns, The Son sets, and more

"...haunted house. This will be Candler's first feature since 2014's critically acclaimed Hellion; however, she's not done with original..."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: The Teller and the Truth

Texas filmmaker attempts to cherchez la femme

"...break while he underwent treatment (see “Pause/Play,” Oct. 10, 2014, for more on that). Two years later after a..."

Nov. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Caitlin Moore

Austin Film Festival to Honor Ed Wood Writers

Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski to receive Bill Wittliff Award

"...They are experts in finding ways to turn the..."

May 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Paper Street Podcast Gives a Voice to the Indie Film Industry

With movie production in lockdown, try the sounds of Paper Street

"...all his reviews and interviews online, dating back to 2014. www.lightscameraaustin.net..."

May 22, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: Yellow Rose

Austin-made drama sings an immigrant song

"...Award nomination for her performance as Kim in the 2014 revival of Miss Saigon. Salonga (who coincidentally originated the..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Beth Sullivan

Austin Terror Fest Drops the Big One

Third year comer triples down at Empire & Barracuda June 7-9

"...As essayed in the 32 names on the poster,..."

Jan. 23, 2019 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Film Festival: 10 Things We Learned From the Writers of Infinity War

Marvel scribes Markus and McFeely stay spoiler-free

"...4) Cap may be a mainstay of the franchise,..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Small-Town Drama, Small-Town Hospitality

Austin director Tyler Russell gets help picking some Texas Cotton

"...His cult status as a star of what is affectionately known as the best worst movie has, nearly three..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gary Hart Biopic The Front Runner to Close Austin Film Festival

New films by Yorgos Lanthimos, Asghar Farhadi added to fest

"...the festival's 25th anniversary season. Based on Matt Bai's 2014 book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics..."

Sept. 12, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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