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Quentin Tarantino Film Festival

The Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, or QT Fest, was an Austin Film Society fundraiser at which Quentin Tarantino screened forgotten genre films from his own print collection and introduced each one himself. The first edition ran 10 days at the Dobie Theatre in August 1996, with more than 30 films; a second followed at the Dobie in January 1998. From the third edition the festival moved to the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, where QT Quattro ran in 2000 and QT 6 returned in 2005 after a four-year gap. QT Seven: The Best of QT, April 24–30, 2006, was the last edition. Tarantino's 2007 farewell to the original Alamo Downtown was a separate three-night event, and no QT Fest has been documented since.

Festival · Austin · Since 1996 · Ended 2006

When it ran
Held in varied
Dobie Theatre (first two editions); Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (from the third edition)
Austin Film Society, with Quentin Tarantino programming from his own print collection
Categories
Repertory genre films from Tarantino's personal print collection, introduced by Tarantino

Notable

The first edition, in August 1996 at the Dobie, ran 10 days and showed more than 30 films from Tarantino's collection, with double bills, kiddie shows and midnighters ↗︎
The festival was a fundraiser for Richard Linklater's Austin Film Society, co-presented in 1996 with The Austin Chronicle and the Dobie Theatre ↗︎
A second Tarantino Filmfest at the Dobie, January 16–18, 1998, presented about 15 films ↗︎
QT Quattro, the fourth edition, ran 10 days at the Alamo Drafthouse starting August 25, 2000, with nightly double and triple bills, all-nighters and Saturday children's matinees ↗︎
QT 6 was announced as a nine-day festival of more than 20 films at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown in September 2005, the first since 2001 ↗︎
QT Seven: The Best of QT ran April 24–30, 2006 at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, with an outdoor Rolling Roadshow screening on April 25 ↗︎
Tarantino's three-night Last Night at the Alamo Grindhouse in May 2007 said goodbye to the Alamo Downtown before it moved to the Ritz; the Chronicle noted there would never be another QT Fest in that building ↗︎
Sources
  1. Shortcuts The Austin Chronicle 1996-06-28
  2. Austin on the QT: Tarantino and Linklater Host Filmfest The Austin Chronicle 1996-08-09
  3. Page Two The Austin Chronicle 1996-08-16
  4. Short Cuts The Austin Chronicle 1998-01-16
  5. Austin Film Society "QT Quattro" Schedule The Austin Chronicle 2000-08-25
  6. Quentin Tarantino Returns to Austin for 'QT 6' Film Threat 2005-09-08
  7. Film News (QT Seven: The Best of QT) The Austin Chronicle 2006-03-24
  8. QT Says Bye-Bye The Austin Chronicle 2007-05-14

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