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.

When radiant and mischievous thirteen year old Tiana meets just moved Char who has difficulty settling into the new neighbourhood, she quickly takes the new friend under her wing. Soothed by Tiana’s mellow disposition to the big scary world outside, the two become inseparable in a matter of weeks navigating the ups and downs of early adulthood together. Yet, eventually, the two lose contact when Tiana isolates herself from everyone after a sudden tragedy hits. Years go by and a shared friendship seems to fade until one day, a young salesman with a mysterious box shows up to Tiana’s front door
Coverage from the Austin Film Festival, highlighting some panels and films that emphasized the importance of diverse and inclusive storytelling.
Every movement becomes a question of identity. To become who we are meant to be. In order to reach that we often have to shed who we once were, and that shedding can sometimes be so brutal it’s ungraceful.
Michael Shanks’ Together is a queasy, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt body-horror trip that fuses love and terror in the most literal sense. Starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, this midnight gem twists Plato’s soulmate myth into a gory, darkly funny tale of codependency, cults, and chainsaws — equal parts romance and nightmare.
Vicenza, a Brazilian girl, goes on a quest by herself to find out who her birth father is by gathering clues.
"65" (2023) is the latest Dino flick to try and answer "what else can we do with dinosaurs?"
I hate the idea that animation’s for kids; just because it’s animated doesn’t mean that it’s some silly cartoon and shouldn’t be taken seriously.