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.

Conor Dunne is heading out to The Philippines with none other than 14 time Tour de France stage winner, and one of the best sprinters of all time; Marcel Kittel. Over 5 days, they’ll be traversing the mountains of the largest island in the Philippines, bikepacking 500km, and taking on an astonishing 11000m of climbing. Beautiful scenery, friendly locals, and epic mountain roads; this is the bucket list bike ride of a lifetime.
Coverage from the Austin Film Festival, highlighting some panels and films that emphasized the importance of diverse and inclusive storytelling.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
Moonlight is a film that will certainly be remembered for how it won Best Picture, but the movie itself should be known for its excellent representation of one of the most underrepresented groups in film: Black, gay men.
'Kajillionaire' is a touching and eccentric story about family, crime, and the search for belonging.
Another uneven "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" redux that says nothing novel about its subject matter.
The director's latest is a dreamlike exploration of a consciousness torn between two homelands, and the implications of history and memory suspended in limbo.