Programming
Since its inception in 1985, the Austin Film Society has screened more than 2000 films. The 'Essential Cinema' series offers weekly screenings that are free to film society members, and range in monthly themes from director retrospectives, to regional or genre specific series. The 'Texas Documentary Tour' is a monthly series which hosts groundbreaking documentaries usually with the filmmakers in attendance. Both series are usually screened at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
AFS also hosts the Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, where Tarantino spends over a week in Austin screening some of his favorite films from his private collection and sharing his unique encyclopedic knowledge of obscure films. The Tarantino Film Festival first began in 1996 as a 10 day event at the Dobie Theatre (at which Tarantino showcased his favorite "sleazy genre films").
AFS has also hosted numerous regional and world premieres of films including: Sin City, Bad News Bears, School of Rock, The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl, Jackie Brown, and various other films usually directed by Austinite filmmakers like Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez.
The film society also hosts smaller screenings of independent films and rough cuts to private audiences at the AFS screening room. New artists services programs like the Docs-In-Progress series allow filmmakers to screen rough cuts to AFS members as a test audience. More recently the cast of The Real World Austin screened a rough cut of their SXSW documentary The Real SXSW.
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