Community Screening

2023 AFS ShortCase

Directed by Various

USA, 2023, 1h 29min, DCP

Community Screening

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

This screening is free and open to the public, but you must reserve your ticket ahead of time.

The AFS ShortCase is an annual program of short films produced by our valued Austin Film Society MAKE members. This year’s program will include a stunning, diverse slate of short films from Texas-based filmmakers Meghan Ross, Field Humphrey, Carlos Estrada, Adan & Saulo Arriaga, Chloe Linscomb, Dash Donato, Liz Moskowitz & Riley Engemoen, and Michael Charron. The filmmakers will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. 

*NOTE: Some films in the AFS ShortCase screening contain adult themes and depictions of violence.

THE FILMS

HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS
Filmmaker: Meghan Ross
An anxious, aging millennial, Arab-American Austin transplant goes on a mission to find the platonic love of her life after realizing she’s never had one lasting female friend, but will have to figure out how to befriend herself first.

IT’S IN THE VOICES
Filmmaker: Field Humphrey
Historian Clinton Bagley revisits an oral interview he conducted in 1976. As he dives deeper into the interview, we learn about Daisy Greene and her community of Greenville, Mississippi.

GREEN WATER
Filmmaker: Carlos Estrada
College-bound Erik must learn to take care of his younger sister, Nora, after their undocumented mother goes missing.

STYROFOAM JONES
Filmmakers: Adan & Saulo Arriaga
A group of friends from east Texas set out to rob a local pharmacy.

NATURE’S BOUNTY
Filmmaker: Chloe Linscomb
Nature’s Bounty is about a bounty hunter’s quest to take down a forest goddess, but she must make an impossible choice! Will she take her out or take her out…?

HONEY & MILK
Filmmaker: Dash Donato
Grayson and Alice spend a final weekend together to dismantle their 13-yr relationship before Grayson leaves on a journey of gender expansion.

DOWN HOME
Filmmakers: Liz Moskowitz & Riley Engemoen
A sleep away camp in Elgin, Texas, gives adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to escape societal barriers and have a good ol’ time dancing, loving, and feeling free.

LOOKING BACK
Filmmaker: Michael Charron
George gets more than he bargained for when he discovers a ghost living in the backup camera of his new car.

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