The Austin Film Festival

Festival

Festival presentation: 

Mission: The Austin Film Festival furthers the art and craft of filmmaking by inspiring and championing the work of screenwriters, filmmakers, and artists who use the language of film and television to tell a story.

Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference enters its third decade this year, riding high on the success of its twentieth anniversary. Founded in 1993 as The Heart of Film Festival, AFF has gained a following by never straying from its mission: story. By making the pure art of storytelling its compass, AFF has kept a true path, serving as a creative greenhouse for conversations, ideas, and projects by this era's greatest screenwriters and filmmakers. From day one, AFF has been pro-artist.

AFF's programming hinges on the power of narrative and visual storytelling, giving all categories one backbone. This integrity of criteria and cohesiveness of the AFF mission truly makes for a solid film festival.

Edition: 

22

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2015 FILM COMPETITION CATEGORIES

• Narrative Feature
• Documentary Feature
• Dark Matters Feature
• Narrative Short
• Narrative Student Short
• Animated Short
• Documentary Short
• Comedy Vanguard

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

AFF is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short, Documentary Short, and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award®. In addition, 2012’s Animated Short Jury and Audience Award winner, Head Over Heels, and the Narrative Short Jury and Audience Award winner, Asad, as well as the 2011  Narrative Short Jury and Audience Award winner, Salar, were all shortlisted for the 2013  Academy Awards®. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, the 2011  AFF Best Animated Short Jury and Audience Award Winner, went on to win the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short in 2012.

WE’LL SAY WE KNEW YOU WHEN…

Countless films and filmmakers that have played at Austin Film Festival have gone on to find tremendous success. Year after year, Official Selections from AFF continue to get picked up for distribution. Not only do individual films gain recognition after playing AFF, but our filmmakers are able to find exciting careers post-fest.  In 2000, Jason Reitman won the Jury Award for his short film In God We Trustand later won AFF Audience Awards for Juno (2007) and Up in the Air (2009). In 2003  and 2005,  Cary Fukunaga  received AFF awards for his student short films and has since gone on to direct the popular HBO drama True Detective as well as the critically acclaimed Sin Nombre (2009) and Jane Eyre. Writer/Director Jeff Nichols won the Narrative Feature Award for his debut feature, Shotgun Stories in 2007.  His last two features, Take Shelter and Mud, debuted at Sundance and Cannes.

At Austin Film Festival, we pride ourselves on finding fresh, relevant and gifted voices from around the world. AFF is a place where new visions and untapped talent can flourish and join our dynamic and welcoming community. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what you believe; if you have a story to tell, we want to see it.

QUESTIONS?

For more information, please feel free to contact us at 512-478-4795 or emailprogramming@austinfilmfestival.com.