By Tanya Fedak
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The Austin Film Society has announced more than $300,000 in new filmmaker grant awards through the launch a new film funding program Texas Lights.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, AFS’s grants support emerging filmmakers. The launch of the Texas Lights fund will provide cash for rising artists to create independent films.
“Thirty years of the AFS Grant is a major milestone for the Austin Film Society. I’m so proud of what we have accomplished by committing our organization to funding filmmakers and showing films,” said Richard Linklater, the founder and artistic director of AFS. “When we started a grant for Texas filmmakers, the idea that artists could live and work here wasn’t taken very seriously. In looking back at the caliber of work and the artists supported through this program over the years, we’ve proven that artists can come from anywhere. With the launch of this new Texas Lights fund, we’re renewing our commitment to something we truly believe in – expanding creative culture by funding artists locally.”
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