AFS MOVIES IN THE PARK: AUSTIN SHORTS

The Aviatrix

Meet painfully awkward teens, water-dwelling rats and imaginary super-heroes in this fall's concluding AFS Movies-in-the-Park screening, a compilation of short films funded over the past 12 years by the Austin Film Society's Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund. 

Bring blankets and chairs for seating. Food and drinks permitted but no glass bottles, please. This is a FREE community event.

Music by Homer Henderson and His One-Man Band at 7:20 PM.  Screening begins at 7:30 PM.

The program is as follows:

THE AVIATRIX
Directed by Toddy Burton (11 min, 2008)
A gleaming silhouette rockets through the cosmos. She is The Aviatrix. And she exists in the mind of Anne, a young woman battling cancer. 

BREEZEWAY
Directed by George Langworthy (13 min, 1996)
A neurotic deconstruction of the comic horrors of nicotine addiction. 

Sweet Sweetroll's Baaaadassss Spin

QUASAR HERNANDEZ
Directed by David Zellner (10 min, 2004)
After two years of friendship and good times, "Big Brother" Jim offers his young charge Craig a unique explanation why they can never see each other again. 

GIMME SOME LARRY
Directed by Elisabeth Sikes (10 min, 1998)
The director gets to know the character actor Lawrence Tierney, best known for his film noir roles of the 1940's and his appearance in RESERVOIR DOGS.

Nutria

SUBSIDIZED FATE
Directed by Lance Myers (5 min, 2004)
A man is instructed to burglarize another man's house by mysteriously placed commercial messages. Are the messages all in his head, or has capitalism become an omnipotent force?  

GRETCHEN & THE NIGHT DANGER
Directed by Steve Collins (26 min, 2004)
An awkward teenager wrestles with whether or not to let her boyfriend go up her shirt.

Gretchen & the Night Danger

AFS Movies in the Park is a series of free screenings throughout the fall, part of a downtown parks revitalization project by the Downtown Austin Alliance, Austin Parks Foundation and City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department. The purpose of the project is to bring life to our city's historic downtown community gathering spaces with new community partners, events and activities.