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.

There is a new warden at Campuna Women’s Penitentiary and her name is Victoria Frankenstein. With a fresh load of dead bodies from a bloody riot, Victoria gets to work creating male and female monsters. An investigative team from an American Reality TV show arrive to document the prison’s reputation of evil. Who will survive and what the will be left of them?
Coverage from the Austin Film Festival, highlighting some panels and films that emphasized the importance of diverse and inclusive storytelling.
Everyone needs a BFF and a "wing person" like Yumi (Chloris Li). Li brings the "straight person" persona, literally and figuratively balancing James Aaron Oh's perfectly timed comedic delivery as the unlucky-in-love.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.
With a quirky outline, Project Hail Mary stays within the bounds of human language and imperial fantasy.
If you remember the days of the 24 hour Overnight Challenge on YouTube, Secret Mall Apartment will tickle your nostalgia receptors.
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.