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1901 E. 51st St.
Austin, TX 78723

 tel: 512-322-0145
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Upcoming Screenings


OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

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Monday, October 6 - 7pm
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY chronicles the journey of the Isaacson family as they travel through Mongolia in search of a mysterious shaman who they believe can heal their autistic son.
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LOVE IN THOUGHTS (WAS NUTZT DIE LIEBE IN GEDANKEN)

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Tuesday, October 7 - 7pm
Full of love, creativity, imagination, and romantic intrigue, a group of beautiful young people make a suicide pact.

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AUGUST EVENING

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Wednesday, October 8 - 7:30pm

The Independent Spirit Award winning AUGUST EVENING follows an aging undocumented worker, Jaime, and his young widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval in rural South Texas.


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HEAD-ON (GEGEN DIE WAND)

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Tuesday, October 14 - 7pm
To escape a repressive home life, Sibel proposes marriage to an alcoholic middle-aged man, with neither thinking they might actually fall in love.

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CAN MR SMITH GET TO WASHINGTON ANYMORE?

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Wednesday, October 15 - 7pm
Documentary filmmaker Frank Popper hopes that his film “shows voters in a very personal and concrete way how the system for electing candidates to public office is broken, but that it is fixable.”
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Writing Behind Bars

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Thursday, October 16 - 7pm
Red Salmon Arts and the Mexican American Cultural Center present WRITING BEHIND BARS, a special screening of Susanne Mason's documentary WRIT WRITER, about jailhouse lawyer Fred Cruz, and poetry reading by Jorge Antonio Renaud, winner of nine PEN awards while incarcerated in the Texas prison system.

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AFS News

New issue of P.O.V. hot off the press

The latest issue of PERSISTENCE OF VISION, the journal » read more

Austin Studios Bond Project Update #4

Schedule and Budget by Jennifer Nesloney, AIA - Broaddus & Associates » read more

MISSING (Costa-Gavras, 1982) at UT with Special Guests Joyce Horman and Peter Kornbluh

Based on a true story, activist director Costa-Gavras’ first American film » read more

Austin.com Studios Primer

Steve Muccini writes for Austin.com, What's » read more

TFPF on KUT

AFS is proud to distribute over $100,000 this week to Texas filmmakers via the » read more

2008 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Recipients Announced

The Austin Film Society proudly announces the recipients of the 2008 Texas Filmmakers' » read more

 

Big Screen Small Screen

AFS Alumni at AFF

The 15th Annual

Wild Man of the Navidad at Fantastic Fest

The 2008 Fantastic Fest has been drawing out their line-up for weeks,

American Widow Project in NY Times

Just a few days after receiving an $8,000 TFPF distribution grant

Fantastic Fest Premieres Zombie Girl

News on the line-up of the 2008 Fantastic Fest,