Diversity Programming At The Austin Film Festival
Coverage from the Austin Film Festival, highlighting some panels and films that emphasized the importance of diverse and inclusive storytelling.

Ali is a young man who fell in love with Zeynep at first sight. But Zeynep is admitted to a mental hospital with a dirty plan. Ali embarks on all kinds of adventures to save Zeynep from the mental hospital, and he is not alone in this process. Ali, who infiltrates the mental hospital by pretending to be sick, comes to the aid of his fellow wards, insane. When that happens, things get out of hand.
Coverage from the Austin Film Festival, highlighting some panels and films that emphasized the importance of diverse and inclusive storytelling.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.
A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
Jeff Aquino’s film “Viral” placed second in 2020’s Incluvie Film Festival fest, he’s back again with his film "An A Peel for Justice".
Outer Banks (2020-) knows its audience: young adults in a country that can’t stop romanticizing good ole’ treasure hunts. Add a little of Riverdale’s (2017-) sex appeal, and no one can look away. Forty years after The Goonies (1985) America’s consciousness hasn’t strayed from the same tropes: treasure hunts, a vulnerable white male lead, and the whitewashing of a racially segregated setting.