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The Arthouse Film Festival

The Arthouse Film Festival, founded in 2018 as the Austin Arthouse Film Festival by Giselle Marie Muñoz and Elizabeth Tabish, showcases dreamlike, experimental and unconventional independent films. It began as a single night of shorts in Austin; the 2019 edition, on October 21 at AFS Cinema, showed 42 shorts in three blocks. In 2020 it became a six-day online festival of 55 titles, including features and films from 48-hour challenges. Its awards are named after directors and actors, such as the Lynch Award for best arthouse film. The renamed festival's sixth year was a virtual showcase on January 14–20, 2024. No later edition was found.

Festival · Austin · Since 2018 · Dormant since 2024

When it ran
Held in October
AFS Cinema (2019); Online (2020 onward)
Founders Giselle Marie Muñoz and Elizabeth Tabish (FilmFreeway lists art director Elizabeth Tabish and community director Giselle De La Rosa)
Submit ↗︎
Old website ↗︎
Categories
Arthouse shorts and features
Prizes
Director-named awards that change yearly, e.g. Lynch Award (Best Arthouse Film), Kubrick Award (Best Director), Rowlands and Cassavetes acting awards, Audience Favorite.

Notable

Founded in 2018 by Giselle Marie Muñoz and Elizabeth Tabish; 2020 edition moved from one night of shorts at AFS Cinema to a six-day virtual festival of 55 titles, adding features and 48-hour film challenges ↗︎
Second edition: October 21, 2019 at AFS Cinema, 42 shorts in three blocks; the first year drew 250 FilmFreeway submissions and showed 35 films in one three-hour block ↗︎
Formerly Austin Arthouse; sixth year was an official virtual showcase January 14–20, 2024, with pop-up screenings in U.S. cities added; listed as running 6 years; reviews through February 2024; entries closed ↗︎
As Austin Arthouse Film Festival (Austin, TX 78752 contact, online event), its 2021 edition was scheduled for December 26–31, 2021, with fees $20–$35+ and year-3 awards ↗︎
Sources
  1. Dreamy Visions at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival The Austin Chronicle 2019-10-17
  2. Pushing Virtual Boundaries at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival The Austin Chronicle 2020-12-23
  3. The Arthouse Film Festival FilmFreeway
  4. Austin Arthouse Film Festival (archived listing) FilmFreeway via Wayback Machine 2021-04-18

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