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Freedom's Name is Mighty Sweet
Set in 1897, this is the incredible story of Charles and Lucille Hunter, two African American prospectors in the Klondike Gold Rush. Inspired by true events, it’s a film about the power of the human spirit and how, no matter the odds, we can survive if we stick togethe
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Friend Request
This is a film about the ‘very hush-hush’ human trafficking industry. It will bring awareness to this multi-billion dollar scourge!
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Gentrified
Set in East Austin, the five-part narrative film series follows three black millennials who, in addition to grappling with their newfound status as outsiders within their rapidly transforming neighborhoods, are facing deep-seated personal struggles
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Girl DADS
The film Girl Dads takes an intimate look into the special bond a father has with his daughters. Every man anticipates the opportunity to have a son that he can refer to as his mini me and train to walk in his footsteps... but a man's life will change as soon as he looks into the eyes of his baby girl for the first time. What does being a Girl Dad look like? This documentary is designed to explore all of the possibilities.
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The Giverny Document (single channel)
Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is an experimental, multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on archival 16mm film, woman on the street interviews, and montage editing techniques to explore the creative virtuosity of Black femme performance while interrogating the histories of those bodies and lives as spaces of forced labor and commodified production.
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Going Down
Going Down is a drama set in a hotel elevator in present day Kingston, Jamaica. It follows Marjorie, a fabulous woman in her 40s, who is engaged in an affair with her much younger boyfriend, Robert, and is confronted by the lack of transparency and intimacy in her marriage when she sees Dan, her husband of 15 years passionately kissing another woman, Julie in a hotel elevator. Short Film Block has Adult Themes and Adult Language
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Grantwriting Workshop
FREE WORKSHOP w/LIMITED SEATING- RSVP by Adding to Cart Michael Thielvoldt, Program Manager of Filmmaker Resources at the Austin Film Society, is hosting a grant-writing workshop for filmmakers. This workshop looks at the AFS Grant, an annual film fund specifically for Texas filmmakers, to illustrate how to build a quality grant application, explore how grant reviewers evaluate applicant projects, and provide other best practices recommendations that can be universally applied to your grant writing.
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Harvest
A tech-billionaire must save his wife by finding her a new liver, no matter what the cost is.Short Film Block has Adult Themes and Adult Language
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History of Black Cinema
A six minute history of black cinema produced for Turner Classic Movies ( TCM)
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Humanite', the Beloved Community
Jazz artist Kirk Whalum was 9 years old when Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated 14 blocks from Kirk’s home in Memphis Tennessee. In a narrative spanning from his own childhood to the thriving global music scene Kirk collaborates with other artist on a musical journey that is self-aware, determined, and inextricably connected with civil rights and Martin Luther King, Jr’s vision of the beloved community.
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I AM TX
On their last day of tour, a black punk band find themselves in awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with an ignorant cast of characters. NOTE: ADULT LANGUAGE
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I Love You....Forever
A married couple, Skip and Mary Henry, who's love for each other has surpassed the test of time. 40 years has passed, and the two are still inseparable even though they're dealing with Mary's terminal illness. Can love conquer the stress that the possibility of death could bring? The Henry's may have the answer.
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