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Welcome to our 2015 Festival Staff Picks column! We’ll be posting some first looks at Festival Films to look out for on the 2015 Film Schedule. Check back to the AFF blog for new Staff…  Read More

Teachers and AISD employees can attend screenings for FREE with their AISD issued IDs on Tuesday, November 3rd of the Austin Film Festival. View schedule here. AISD ID will grant entry into the Film Pass Line….  Read More

Welcome to our 2015 Festival Staff Picks column! We’ll be posting some first looks at Festival Films to look out for on the 2015 Film Schedule. Check back to the AFF blog for new Staff Picks…  Read More

Welcome to our 2015 Festival Staff Picks column! We’ll be posting some first looks at Festival Films to look out for on the 2015 Film Schedule. Check back to the AFF blog for new Staff Picks…  Read More

Traficant What inspired you to come up with the idea for the film? My first memories of Jim Traficant take place at my grandmother’s house. Snippets of the “adult” conversations often included mentions of Jesus…  Read More

El Jeremías What inspired you to come up with the idea for the film? Ana Sofia Clerici wrote the story, it was her idea, she pitched it to me in 2006 (the same year as…  Read More

Two Lunes What inspired you to come up with the idea for the film? In Buddhism, Yin and Yang were born from chaos when the universe was first created. The first human was created when…  Read More

The Tender Dark What inspired you to come up with the idea for the film? I knew in order to receive funding my next film had to be either heavily genre driven or topical. Same…  Read More