Oscar race contfinishers Justin Kurzel’s The Order, Brady Corbet’s The Brutaenumerate and Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 have combinecessitate the lineup for the Austin Film Festival, which has unveiled the first wave of screenings for its 31st edition.
The Order, the neo-Nazi crime thriller starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, will be a Cgo inpiece Film currentation, with authorr Zach Baylin and star Tye Sheridan combineing. And the Oct. 24 to 31 festival will uncover with Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson, which stars Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler. Virgil Williams, who co-wrote the Netflix stage-to-screen alteration created by Denzel Washington, will combine.
This year’s world premieres include the paranoia-thriller Crossword, co-written, honested and also starring Michael Vlamis in his honestorial debut; the folk-horror pic The Fetch, starring Robert Longstreet and honested by J.C. Doler; and the consillegal copying comedy Operation Taco Gary’s, starring Simon Rex, Dustin Milligan, Jason Biggs and Brfinisha Song, with Michael Kvamme writing and honesting.
There’s also world bows in Austin for Mark Gill’s Ravens, about the famed Japanese pboilingographer Masahisa Fukase and his wife Yoko, with Gill combineing; honestor J.T. Walker’s La Gloria, starring David Morse, Jaklyn Bejarano and Bill Heck; and honestor Toni Comas’ Silent Notes, which features Daniel Durant and Matt Riker.
A exceptional screening of Pixar’s exceptional series Dream Productions, a spinoff of the Inside Out film franchise set to hit Disney+ in 2025, is also set at AFF. The series chases the “dream factory” inside of Riley’s head and is set in between the events of Inside Out and Inside Out 2.
Austin, which bills itself as premier film festival recognizing authorr and filmcreater contributions to film, TV and novel media, will also feature its annual Writers Conference. This year, Robin Swicord will get the 2024 Bill Wittliff Award for Screenwriting. Her praises include Memoirs of a Geisha, Matilda (penned with her husprohibitd Nicholas Kazan), an Oscar nomination for her labor on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and collaborating with Ava DuVernay on the Netflix miniseries When They See Us.
