AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2023 COMPETITION FILMS
Congratulations to all the filmmakers nominated for this year’s Jury Awards! You can click the ink below to find all nominated films, and find their showtimes HERE. Films are reviewed by teams of hand-selected jurors from across the industry.
Narrative Feature
Sunlight
Writer:
Ailbhe Keogan
Director:
Claire Dix
Grapefruit
Writer/Director:
Chase Joliet
Autumn
Writer/Director:
António Sequeira
Summer of Violence
Writer/Director:
Nicki Micheaux
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Writer:
Jesse Orenshein
Director:
H.P. Mendoza
Midnight at the Paradise
Writer:
Bill Robertson
Director:
Vanessa Matsui
The Highest Brasil
Writer/Director:
Jeremy Curl
Documentary Feature
The Philadelphia Eleven
Director:
Margo Guernsey
This is Not Financial Advice
Director:
Chris Temple, Zach Ingrasci
First We Bombed New Mexico
Writer:
Lois Lipman, Joel Marcus
Director:
Lois Lipman
Studio One Forever
Director:
Marc Saltarelli
Home is a Hotel
Director:
Kevin Duncan Wong
Born to Fly
Director:
Brennan Robideaux
Comedy Vanguard
Egghead & Twinkie
Writer/Director:
Sarah Kambe Holland
For When You Get Lost
Writer:
Jennifer Sorenson
Director:
Michelle Steffes
Soweto Blaze
Writer/Director:
Brad Katzen
Don’t Tell Larry
Writer/Director:
Greg Porper, John Schimke
Sour Party
Writer/Director:
Amanda Drexton, Michael Drexton
All the Wrong Ingredients
Writer/Director:
Nicholas Livanos
Dark Matters
Wild Eyed and Wicked
Writer/Director:
G.S. Foxwood
Jonah
Writer:
Trevor Vandelac, Ben Van Kleek
Director:
Ben Van Kleek
Unfinished Business from Beyond
Writer:
Eduardo Espindola
Director:
Ian Martin
Inhabitants
Writer/Director:
Matt McClung
Cannibal Mukbang
Writer/Director:
Aimee Kuge
The Hidden Web
Writer:
Piotr Adamski, Łukasz M. Maciejewski, Jakub Szamałek
Director:
Piotr Adamski
Narrative Shorts
Barely Breathing
Writer:
Neal Reddy
Director:
Derek Evans
Candice
Writer:
Tyler Martin
Director:
Tyler Martin, Chelsea Childs
In Tow
Writer/Director:
Sharon Arteaga
A Lien
Writer/Directors:
Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz
Arman & Elisa
Writer/Director:
Kiyan Agadjani
Final Forever
Writer: Levi Dubland
Director: Tess Quatri
Student Shorts
In Wonderland
Writers:
Andrea Camacho McCracken, Nora Alameddin
Director:
Andrea Camacho McCracken
Born Again
Writer/Director:
Will Henderson, III
Jelly
Writer/Director:
Anndi Jinelle Liggett
Whiteboy
Writer/Director:
Matty Crawford
Seraphim
Writer: Joanna Fernandez
Director: Oscar Ramos
Waiting Room
Writer/Director:
Katarina Zrinka Šarić
Documentary Shorts
Safe Place
Director:
Samuel-Ali Mirporian
Bestseller
Writer:
Meg Fisher, Aiden Siobhan
Director:
Aiden Siobhan
A Guide for When Immigrants Become Ancestors
Director:
Iliana Garcia
4DWN
Director:
Danny Schmidt
Strong Grandma
Directors:
Cecilia Brown, Winslow Crane-Murdoch
Liftoff
Director:
Drew Bierut
Animated Shorts
Curiosa
Writers:
Matthew Dickey, Tessa Moult-Milewska
Director:
Tessa Moult-Milewska
Clicker
Writer/Director:
Charles Kugler
Hair Universe
Writers:
Jinuk Choi, Seoyoung Ahn
Director:
Jinuk Choi
Starling
Writer/Director:
Mitra Shahidi
Whiteness at Work
Writer/Director:
Peter Bonde Becker Nelson
The Legend of Goldhorn
Director:
Lea Vučko
Produced Digital Series
A Perfect Bride
Writer:
Serjan Serikbayev
Director:
Darkhan Sarkenov
Restorage
Writers:
Caleb Davis, E’an Verdugo
Director:
E’an Verdugo
Superposition
Writers:
Sergey Efremov, Dmitry Skachkov, Maxim Borisov
Director:
Vadim Valiullin
Thanatos
Writer/Director:
Andrew C. Fisher
What the Elf?
Writer:
Cameron Kelly
Director:
Tate Hanyok
Los Angelez
Writer/Director: Louisa Hill
Texas Short Filmmaker Award
Ick
Writers:
India Opzoomer, Lindsay Howard
Director:
India Opzoomer
Freaks
Writer:
Grace Potter
Directors:
Grace Potter, Emily Potter
Home
Writer:
AJ Edwards
Directors:
Eric Pham, Stephen Robinson
Titty Boy
Writer/Director:
Austin Ford Franklin Culp
Many Rivers to Cross
Writer/Director:
Elijah Alvarado
40Hands
Writer/Director:
Craig Robert Elrod