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2024 AFF Audience Award Winners

11/04/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News

The 31st Annual Austin Film Festival (AFF) has come to a close, wrapping up eight days and nights of programming with over 150 films showcased. After each screening, audiences cast their votes for the stories... Read More

STAFF PICK: I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE

10/15/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, Staff Picks

By Cassandra This dark comedy follows Jacob, a depressed man eager to end a life he’s lost control of. In his attempts to leave it all behind, friends and family coincidentally intervene and halt his... Read More

STAFF PICK: Audrey’s Children

10/15/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, Staff Picks

By Cassandra Audrey’s Children is painfully beautiful and honest. British physician, Dr. Audrey Evans challenges sexism in the medical field while her patients battle cancer. Between the widespread nature of discrimination in 1969 America and... Read More

2024 Advance Individual Tickets Now On-Sale

10/11/2024 Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Screenings

Limited advance individual tickets* are now on-sale for 10 films that will be shown at the Paramount and State Theatre during the 31st annual Austin Film Festival, October 24-31, 2024. The advance individual tickets* are... Read More

WORLD PREMIERE: RETURN TO CHEYENNE

10/09/2024 AFF Blog, Conference, Conversations in Film, Festival & Conference, Film Competition, Film Festival, News, Press, World Premiere

Austin Film Festival is proud to announce a lineup of WORLD PREMIERES at its 31st season. Today we’ll be looking at the documentary short Return to Cheyenne directed by Jaime Wilken. Return to Cheyenne (USA, 18... Read More

Staff Pick: Shaman

10/08/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Staff Picks

STAFF PICK: Shaman By Yasmin Al-Omain-Nuncio - Screenplay Assistant As someone who grew up with family members who had studied healing techniques with Shamans and Curanderos alike, the film Shaman was delightfully frustrating. The film... Read More

Staff Pick: Tummy Monster

10/08/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Staff Picks

STAFF PICK: Tummy Monster By Colin Hyer - Operations Manager Tummy Monster, the debut feature from Scottish director Ciaran Lyons, co-written with Lorn Macdonald and Orlando Norman (who also star in the film), is a... Read More

Staff Pick: Raging Midlife

10/08/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Staff Picks

STAFF PICK: Raging Midlife By Leah Rosenberger - Conference Coordinator I will never be a middle-aged man, but my staff pick from this year’s Austin Film Festival lineup is Raging Midlife. I am merely a... Read More

Staff Pick: Silent Notes

10/08/2024 AFF Blog, Festival & Conference, Film Festival, News, Staff Picks

STAFF PICK: Silent Notes By: Andrew Fisher - Young Filmmakers Director Whoever said ‘love is blind’ only got it half right. It’s also deaf. I’m a sucker for love stories. Tell me two people fall... Read More

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2024 AFF Audience Award Winners

STAFF PICK: I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE

STAFF PICK: Audrey’s Children

2024 Advance Individual Tickets Now On-Sale

WORLD PREMIERE: RETURN TO CHEYENNE

Staff Pick: Shaman

Staff Pick: Tummy Monster

Staff Pick: Raging Midlife

Staff Pick: Silent Notes

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