Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival – Austin

Sound Unseen Austin is a four-day festival of films about music, held each August at AFS Cinema. It began in 2020 as the Austin edition of Sound Unseen, a Minneapolis festival founded in 1999, and in 2026 became an independently produced, Austin-led event. The 2026 edition, which ended August 9, had 15 screenings, 24 visiting filmmakers and artists and about 750 attendees, with music documentaries such as Shut Up & Sing and a film on Austin punk band the Big Boys, plus panels and live music. A jury picks a winning feature from five to nine films without US distribution and a winning short. The festival says 2027 dates and FilmFreeway submissions are coming soon.

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