Help AFS Build a Third Theater
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AFS Cinema brings people together to enjoy films, share stories, and discover new perspectives. More than 84,000 tickets are sold to moviegoers each year to experience art from around the world and around the corner, rediscover classics, and hear filmmakers discuss their craft.
A hub for Austin’s creative community, AFS Cinema is growing and needs your support to build a third theater. This expansion will allow us to increase screenings and showtimes while creating even more opportunities for audiences, filmmakers, and film lovers to connect.
Help Grow Austin’s Film Community
The Austin Film Society is raising $250,000 to expand AFS Cinema. Your support helps build more than a theater; it helps build the future of film culture in Austin. AFS’ mission is to empower the community to make, watch, and love film. Through AFS Cinema, Austin Public, and Austin Studios, we are:
- Changing lives through the power of cinema
- Building community around great film
- Bringing rarely-seen cinema to Austin
- Supporting rising Texas filmmakers
- Fostering a world-renowned film culture in Austin
Why a Third Theater?
AFS Cinema is much more than a movie theater. It’s a home for Austin’s creative community. As audiences grow and demand for independent, international, and repertory cinema continues to expand, we have an opportunity to build something extraordinary together.
AFS Cinema operates two screens at our current location. With construction already underway, an unused event space on the property will add an additional third screen with newly outfitted stadium seating and 170+ seats.
By helping AFS Cinema build a third theater, you’re investing in more than an additional screen. You’re helping expand access to bold, rarely seen films, creating more opportunities for Texas filmmakers, and ensuring Austin remains one of the world’s great film cities.
The New Theater Will Provide
- More screenings
- Better showtimes
- Upgraded seating
- State-of-the-art projection and sound
- A more welcoming experience for film lovers of all kinds
More importantly, it will strengthen a vital cultural hub where artists, audiences, and ideas come together.
Giving Levels and Perks
- Limited edition AFS Cinema film strip
- Name recognition on our website
- Limited edition AFS Cinema film strip
- Name recognition on our website
- AFS WATCH membership*
- Limited edition AFS Cinema film strip
- New release AFS t-shirt
- Name recognition on our website
- AFS WATCH membership*
- Limited edition AFS Cinema film strip
- New release AFS t-shirt
- Name recognition on our website
- AFS LOVE Single membership*
- Limited edition AFS Cinema film strip
- Two new release AFS t-shirts
- Name recognition on our website
- Invitations to the Third Theater grand opening party
- LOVE Dual membership*
Those who choose to give at $1,000 or more are welcomed into our Impact Circle, along with extra special benefits:
- Impact Circle membership*
- Two new release AFS t-shirts
- Name recognition on Third Theater donor wall
- Invitations to the Third Theater grand opening party
- 12-year anniversary BOYHOOD screenprint poster signed by director Richard Linklater and stars Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, and Ethan Hawke
- Impact Circle membership*
- Two new release AFS t-shirts
- Name recognition on Third Theater donor wall
- Invitations to the Third Theater grand opening party
- Impact Circle membership*
- Two new release AFS t-shirts
- Name recognition on Third Theater donor wall
- Invitations to the Third Theater grand opening party
- Happy hour with AFS’s nationally renowned film programmers at the new Third Theater and an insider peek at the new Green Room
- Impact Circle membership*
- Two new release AFS t-shirts
- Name recognition on Third Theater donor wall
- Invitations to the Third Theater grand opening party
- Happy hour with AFS’s nationally renowned film programmers at the new Third Theater and an insider peek at the new Green Room
- Custom seat plaque dedication in the new Third Theater
- Impact Circle membership*
- Two new release AFS t-shirts
- Name recognition on Third Theater donor wall
- Invitations to the Third Theater grand opening party
- Happy hour with AFS’s nationally renowned film programmers at the new Third Theater and an insider peek at the new Green Room
- Custom seat plaque dedication in the new Third Theater
- Complimentary Theater rental at AFS Cinema*
For more details on AFS membership levels and benefits, visit here.
* If you are already a member, consider an additional gift during this exciting time of expansion at the AFS Cinema. Your current member benefits will be extended for a year from your gift, or spread the joy of cinema and give a membership to a film lover in your life.
We also accept payment via check, DAF, appreciated securities, bank transfer, etc. Checks can be mailed to: AFS Development, 1901 E 51st Street, Austin TX 78723. Please reach out for any of these other options.
Corporate underwriting opportunities are available. Click HERE to learn how to get involved with the AFS Cinema Third Theater campaign and gain visibility and other perks for your business, all while elevating the quality of life in your community.
Questions? Contact via email development@austinfilm.org, phone (512) 322-0145 ext. 1, or read the FAQs
Thanks to Still Water Foundation and our generous donors who helped us achieve our $50K matching grant and pushed us over our goal of $250,000! Keeping the momentum going, every dollar raised over our goal supports the AFS Cinema, going right back into Austin’s film community!
THANKS TO OUR LEAD DONORS
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