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38-522: AFS was created in 1985 by film director Richard Linklater , cinematographer Lee Daniel , Austin Chronicle editor and South by Southwest (SXSW) founder Louis Black , University of Texas at Austin film professor Charles Ramirez-Berg and film programmer and professor Chale Nafus. Their original goal was to bring hard-to-find, sometimes obscure films for screening in Austin. Early screenings held in

76-865: A vegetarian since his early 20s. In 2015, he explained the dietary lifestyle in a Boyhood -style documentary for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals . Austin Studios Austin Studios is a 20-acre (81,000 m ) film and video production facility with 10,000 square feet (1,000 m ) of production office space and over 100,000 square feet (10,000 m ) of production space established in 2000. The space includes five production stages converted from airplane hangars, two production office buildings, and numerous onsite vendors including Chapman/Leonard, Mobile Production Services, and Miscellaneous Rentals, among others. Austin Studios

114-536: A $ 5 million bond to improving Austin Studios. Planned renovations include soundproofing the stages, climate control, and improving the digital infrastructure of the facilities. In 2005, The Austin Film Society recently sponsored the cast of The Real World Austin to produce a documentary on SXSW. In several episodes, AFS facilities and staff can be seen. The Austin Film Society Grant (AFS Grant)

152-405: A Super-8 feature that took a year to shoot and another year to edit. Linklater created Detour Filmproduction (an homage to the 1945 low budget film noir by Edgar G. Ulmer ), and subsequently made Slacker for only $ 23,000. It went on to gross more than $ 1.25 million. The film shows an aimless day in the life of the city of Austin, Texas showcasing its more eccentric characters. While gaining

190-480: A backup quarterback for the #1 ranked team in the state. For his senior year, he moved to Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas , because he was better at baseball than football and Bellaire had a better baseball coach. As a teen he won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award . Linklater studied at Sam Houston State University (where he also played baseball), until dropping out to work on an offshore oil rig in

228-468: A cult following in the independent film world, he made his third film, Dazed and Confused , based on his years at Huntsville High School and the people he encountered there. The film garnered critical praise and grossed $ 8 million in the United States while becoming a hit on VHS. This film was also responsible for the breakout of fellow Texas native Matthew McConaughey . In 1995, Linklater won

266-568: A makeshift projection room upstairs from a local coffee shop drew a moderate cult following. AFS eventually grew in scale and began developing various programs to boost film production and education. In 2000, with a unique partnership with the City of Austin, AFS created Austin Studios on a section of land from the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport . Former airplane hangars were converted into five studio production stages while several terminals were turned into production offices. Austin Film Society

304-590: A single day. They are less plot driven and more about human interactions. Linklater lives in Austin, Texas , and refuses to live or work in Hollywood for any extended period of time. Linklater has been partnered with Christina Harrison since the 1990s. In 1994 they had a daughter, and twin boys in 2004. The oldest, Lorelei Linklater , co-starred in Boyhood as the sister of the main character. Linklater has been

342-414: A team of artists to "trace over" individual frames. The result is a distinctive "semi-real" quality, praised by such critics as Roger Ebert (in the case of Waking Life ) as being original and well-suited to the aims of the film. Fast Food Nation (2006) is an adaptation of the best selling book that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. The film was entered into

380-613: A while Linklater was attached to direct a remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet for Warner Bros. However, he dropped the project in favor of working on a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused , titled Everybody Wants Some!! , with backing from Annapurna Pictures and Paramount distributing the film in North America. The film was released in March 2016 and was well received by critics, but it failed to recoup its budget of 10 million dollars, grossing only 4.6 million. In

418-451: Is a grant program for emerging Texas-based filmmakers. The program was created in 1996 in response to the lack of public grant funding for filmmakers. As of 2023, the film society has given out over $ 2,400,000 worth of grants to over 500 filmmakers since its inception, providing the seed money for several projects that went on to screen at festivals like Sundance , Cannes , and SXSW . The Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund changed its name to

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456-494: Is a monthly series which hosts groundbreaking documentaries usually with the filmmakers in attendance. AFS also has hosted the Quentin Tarantino Film Festival , where Tarantino spent 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

494-765: Is also home to the Austin Film Society main office. Various studio films shot at Austin Studios include: Miss Congeniality , The New Guy , The Rookie , The Life of David Gale , 25th Hour , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning , Secondhand Lions , Star Trek , Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over , Man of the House , Friday Night Lights , The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl , The Wendell Baker Story , Idiocracy , A Scanner Darkly , Infamous , The Hitcher , The Return , Stop-Loss , Grind House , Machete Kills , and Alita: Battle Angel . Various TV shows, commercials and music videos have also been shot at

532-748: Is also home to the Austin Film Society breakroom and screening room with 35 mm, 16 mm and video projection capabilities. Various studio films shot at Austin Studios include: Miss Congeniality , The New Guy , The Rookie , The Life of David Gale , 25th Hour , Texas Chainsaw Massacre , Secondhand Lions , Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over , Man of the House , Friday Night Lights , The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl , The Wendell Baker Story , Idiocracy , A Scanner Darkly , Infamous , The Hitcher , The Return , Stop-Loss , and Grindhouse . Various TV shows, commercials and music videos have also been shot at

570-490: Is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time . His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993); the Before trilogy of romance films: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003);

608-540: Is currently located on the Austin Studios property, overseeing the daily operations of the studios, in addition to actively bringing in new film productions from small independent films to large studio pictures. Source: Since its inception in 1985, the Austin Film Society has screened more than 2000 films. The 'Essential Cinema' series offers weekly screenings and range in monthly themes from director retrospectives, to regional or genre specific series. 'Doc Nights'

646-458: The 2006 Cannes Film Festival before being released in North America on November 17, 2006, and in Europe on March 23, 2007. The film received mixed reviews. Linklater fared better with the critics with A Scanner Darkly (released in the same year), Me and Orson Welles (2009), and Bernie (2011). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Before Midnight ,

684-685: The Gulf of Mexico . He frequently read novels on the rig, and upon returning to land, developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory cinema in Houston. At this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas . Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 with his college professor Chale Nafus, University of Texas professor Charles Ramirez-Berg, SXSW founder Louis Black , and his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel . One of

722-834: The Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for his work on Before Sunrise . He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood . In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world . Linklater was born in Houston, Texas , the son of Diane Margaret (née Krieger), who taught at Sam Houston State University , and Charles W. Linklater, III. He attended Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Texas , during grades 9–11, where he played football for Joe Clements as

760-555: The Silver Bear for Best Director for the film Before Sunrise at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival . His next feature, subUrbia , had mixed reviews critically, and did very poorly at the box office. In 1998, he took on his first Hollywood feature, The Newton Boys , which received mixed reviews while tanking at the box office. With the rotoscope films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly , and his mainstream comedies, School of Rock and

798-515: The adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016); and the romantic comedy Hit Man (2023). Many of Linklater's films are noted for their loosely structured narratives. The Before trilogy and Boyhood both feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. He has received several Academy Award nominations and won

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836-780: The AFS Cinema offers a full schedule of first run films, featuring the best in international and independent films new to theaters. Signature film programs are often accompanied by introductions by the film programmers or other special guests. Austin Studios is a 20-acre (81,000 m) film and video production facility with 10,000 square feet (1,000 m) of production office space and over 100,000 square feet (10,000 m) of production space. The space includes five production stages converted from airplane hangars, two production office buildings, and numerous onsite vendors including Chapman/Leonard, Film Fleet, Gear, Miscellaneous Rentals, Great FX and Heartland Studio Equipment. Austin Studios

874-696: 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. In 2005, the cast of The Real World Austin screened a rough cut of their SXSW documentary The Real SXSW . In the spring of 2013, the Austin Film Society partnered with The Marchesa Hall & Theatre to create "AFS at the Marchesa," Austin's new home for classic, independent and art house film programming. The first Austin Film Society screening at AFS at

912-667: The Austin Film Society Grant (AFS Grant) in the spring of 2013. The Austin Film Society hosts the Texas Film Awards, an annual awards gala inducting legends of cinema and television into the Texas Film Hall of Fame . The Texas Film Awards were founded in 2001 to honor the best in Texas film and to raise funds for the year-round programs and services of AFS. Each year, the event has grown to become

950-570: 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

988-549: The Marchesa was the 20th anniversary screening of Dazed and Confused . Other screenings and series made possible by the partnership include Richard Linklater's "Jewels in the Wasteland" series , the Old School Kung Fu Weekend, Matewan with John Sayles in attendance, Eggshells with Tobe Hooper in attendance, a Godard vs. Truffaut series , and more. In May 2016, Austin Film Society took over

1026-463: The lease of the space formerly called The Marchesa Hall & Theatre. The space was then renamed to the AFS Cinema. After a significant renovation, AFS opened the AFS Cinema in spring of 2017 with two screens, a full bar and café, and an event hall available for rentals. AFS curates a wide selection of films for its signature programs at the cinema, including repertory series, new restorations, documentaries, independent films and premieres. Additionally,

1064-616: The mentors for the Film Society was former New York City critic for the SoHo Weekly News George Morris, who had relocated to Austin and taught film there. For several years, Linklater made many short films that were exercises and experiments in film techniques. He finally completed his first feature, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (which is available in The Criterion Collection edition of his second feature, Slacker ),

1102-775: The most glamorous night in Austin. Honorees have included Morgan Fairchild, Marcia Gay Harden, Matthew McConaughey, Billy Bob Thornton, Farrah Fawcett, Amber Heard, David Gordon Green, Horton Foote, Terrence Malick, Jack Valenti, Woody Harrelson and music acts such as the Dixie Chicks, ZZ Top and Lyle Lovett. Each year, the Awards also honor a film made in Texas. Past recipients include Dazed And Confused , From Dusk Till Dawn , Rio Bravo , Rushmore , State Fair , Easy Rider , Giant and The Last Picture Show . Richard Linklater Richard Stuart Linklater ( / ˈ l ɪ ŋ k l eɪ t ər / ; born July 30, 1960)

1140-451: The musical and the play it is based on , will be presented in reverse chronology . In 2024, Linklater directed an episode of God Save Texas for HBO , focusing on the prison industrial complex in Huntsville, Texas . Inspiration for Linklater's work was largely based on his experience viewing the film Raging Bull . It made me see movies as a potential outlet for what I was thinking about and hoping to express. At that point I

1178-529: The remake of Bad News Bears , he gained wider recognition. In 2003, he wrote and directed a pilot for HBO with Rodney Rothman called $ 5.15/hr , about several minimum wage restaurant workers. The pilot deals with themes later examined in Fast Food Nation . The British television network Channel 4 produced a documentary about Linklater, in which the filmmaker discussed the personal and philosophical ideas behind his films. St Richard of Austin

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1216-495: The second half of the 2010s, Linklater wrote and directed the drama film Last Flag Flying , starring Bryan Cranston , Laurence Fishburne , and Steve Carell . A sequel to Hal Ashby 's 1973 film The Last Detail , it began filming in November 2016, and was released on November 3, 2017. Linklater then directed Where'd You Go, Bernadette , based on the novel by Maria Semple and produced by Annapurna Pictures . Linklater

1254-616: The studios. The Flaming Lips video "Psychic Wall" from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was shot in one of the stages and shows a behind the scenes look at the hangars. Austin Studios is also the former home to the Thunderdome, headquarters and skating facility of the Texas Rollergirls, as seen in the A&;E reality series Rollergirls . In November 2006, the city of Austin voted in favor of Proposition 4, which allotted

1292-523: The studios. The Flaming Lips video "Psychic Wall" from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was shot in one of the stages and shows a behind-the-scenes look at the hangars. Austin Studios is also the former home to the Thunderdome, headquarters and skating facility of the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls , as seen in the A&E reality series Rollergirls . In November 2012, the city of Austin voted in favor of Proposition 4, which allotted

1330-630: The third film in the Before... trilogy. In 2014 he released the film Boyhood , which had been 12 years in the making. Boyhood received overwhelming critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globes , Critics' Choice Movie Awards , and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director , along with nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture . For

1368-497: Was an unformed artist. At that moment, something was simmering in me, but Raging Bull brought it to a boil. He was also influenced by Robert Bresson , Yasujirō Ozu , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Eric Rohmer , François Truffaut , Josef Von Sternberg , and Carl Theodor Dreyer . Many of Linklater's films, including Slacker , Dazed and Confused , Tape , and all three installments of the Before Trilogy , take place in

1406-436: Was attached to direct an adaptation of Graeme Simsion 's novel The Rosie Project that would have starred Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role, but he dropped out of directing when Lawrence dropped out of the project. In 2019, it was announced that Linklater would be filming an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim 's musical Merrily We Roll Along . Like Boyhood , it will be filmed over the course of several years, but, like

1444-584: Was presented by Ben Lewis and directed by Irshad Ashraf and broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2004 in the UK. Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film Before Sunset . Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly both used rotoscoping animation techniques. Working with Bob Sabiston and Sabiston's program Rotoshop to create this effect, Linklater shot and edited both movies completely as live-action features, then employed

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