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On Production and Episodic Film Writing: Kate Tolo and Connie Saltzman of Project: Girl (Part 2) Kate Tolo, Connie Saltzman, and Stephanie Bonner, co-founders of Project: Girl Photo by Alexandra Nielsen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496078183495-8ZAFWOB21X58AFFIN3A9/image-asset.jpeg interviews - On Production and Episodic Film Writing: Kate Tolo and Connie Saltzman of Project: Girl (Part 2) https://thefrontfest.com/blog/2017/5/25/interview-kate-tolo-and-connie-saltzman-of-project-girl-pt-1 monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1495744855451-TNJVW2RHVHZYO0Y6JIEP/image-asset.png interviews - On Creating for Young Audiences: Kate Tolo and Connie Saltzman, of Project: Girl (Part 1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1495746849652-WH5IMVNHNDYGIGU6A1OZ/image-asset.jpeg interviews - On Creating for Young Audiences: Kate Tolo and Connie Saltzman, of Project: Girl (Part 1) Kate Tolo, creator and co-producer of Project: Girl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1495746986733-4AWZ1G5X3Z4BPZ64B396/connie+saltzman.jpg interviews - On Creating for Young Audiences: Kate Tolo and Connie Saltzman, of Project: Girl (Part 1) Connie Saltzman, actress and director of Project: Girl https://thefrontfest.com/blog/2017/5/4/interview-dr-lisa-thompson-playwright-and-associate-professor-of-african-african-diaspora-studies-at-ut-austin monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://thefrontfest.com/blog/2017/5/1/interview-b-b-araya-director-and-producer-of-beta-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1493665325222-H86HG7B3MHWSUP3PEUSN/image-asset.jpeg interviews - On Independent Film and Atypical Narratives: B. 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All photos by Tess Cagle! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1468388358812-6RCYQCABM62AQQYODYQ5/image-asset.png interviews - #babesfestsummer Screening Recap! https://thefrontfest.com/blog/2016/6/17/babesfestnyc-recap monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1466177808960-9QJJ1WXZ16HTRLMU3UBK/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC Recap! Photo by Julia Silva Photography https://thefrontfest.com/blog/2016/6/5/what-is-babes-fest monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://thefrontfest.com/blog/2016/5/25/babesfestnyc-meet-the-speakers monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195534845-Z7GPK6V55E6NGASO39Z4/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Jessica Williams is a writer/performer out of Los Angeles's Upright Citizens Brigade. While she was studying film and English at California State University, Long Beach, and performing with UCB, she landed the role of correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." In 2012, she was featured as one of Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch, and she recurred in the third season of HBO's "Girls." Williams can be seen in the Sundance comedy "People Places Things" (2015) and will continue as a correspondent on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah." She is also co-host of the new WNYC hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, with Phoebe Robinson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195119673-JUJLWACT5827R94WEVD6/image-asset.png interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Driely S. is a freelance fashion, lifestyle + concept photographer based in NYC. Her distinct shooting style and undeniable hustle have led her to gigs with Vogue, The Met Gala and Kanye West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195205207-M2EVBQD5TTMJM84FF255/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Erika Ramirez is the founder/editor of ILY and a freelance writer for many major publications. She has recently held editorial positions at both Billboard and ROOKIE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195594778-G82K6Q5FTX7KPIXFYTHM/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Katja Blichfeld is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, producer and casting director. She, along with her husband Ben Sinclair, are the creative team behind the critically acclaimed series, High Maintenance, which will make its transition from the web to HBO this fall. Prior to creating High Maintenance, Blichfeld won an Emmy Award for her casting work on 30 Rock. In addition, she has cast several major motion pictures, the latest being Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby, and spent many years in NBC's East Coast casting department, casting series regulars for numerous pilots. In 2015, she received the Writers’ Guild of America Award for Best Original Short-Form New Media, along with Sinclair, for their work on the High Maintenance episode “Rachel." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464932005070-TALGNJY976THNETGDN73/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Megan started her career building the voice and managing social for your favorite period underwear company, THINX. Currently she works as a Creative at BuzzFeed, writing original content and telling authentic stories for brands. Her love for normalizing taboo topics has allowed her to work on projects that range from reproductive education to feminine hygiene to body positivity. Let's talk about sex, baby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195280027-T5TV2Y9UK97PT8N45ZTE/13221124_1137371486304186_5085727774503177580_o.jpg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Meet Lindsay Eyth of eythink. For the last three years, Eyth has been utilizing her knack for design, calligraphy and realness to create relatable apparel and goods. As a feminist, her pieces also bring light to important issues, namely gender equality, reproductive rights and sexual assault. Photo by Celeste Laster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195570386-L5RZB0IG2TDXWTAVQIMS/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Mindy Abovitz is a self taught drummer and drum machine programmer with a Masters in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research. She started Tom Tom Magazine in 2009. She hopes to impact the music industry through print media, new media, showcases, panels and community interactions and see a 50% increase of female drummers in the next ten years. The magazine has a feminist mission and seeks to raise awareness about female percussionists from all over the world and hopes to inspire women and girls of all ages to drum, while strengthening and building the community of otherwise fragmented female musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195442538-EYTQ5SA8EDKE0GECVZZK/image-asset.png interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Coming from Chi-Town, Chante will be both our DJ for the evening and a panelist. As one of the founders at Cliche Collective, she'll speak on collaboration and creative career planning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1464195692757-MQAH7CCHCOACTZ3AFINU/image-asset.jpeg interviews - #babesfestNYC: Meet the Speakers Rachel Nelson is an artist, curator, political economist and business owner who resides in Bushwick Brooklyn. She founded Secret Project Robot, an artist run art space, with her husband in 2004. In 2013 they built, designed and opened Happyfun Hideaway a bar that thrives by creating a true work family with strong support of the artist community. Their newest project Flowers for All Occasions is a cafe/gallery/bar that is about having a public space for discourse and art while providing jobs to young artists. For her "free" time Rachel went to graduate schools studying interanational political economy and wrote her thesis on the relationship between the rise of regulatory capture within tax systems and the rise of oligarchs. She is interested in the ways in which human relationships can slow the effects of unbridled capitalism on a community. 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Lineup Taji Senior is a journalist, writer and performer based in Austin. Her credits include Doper than Dope (Heckle Her), As You Like It (Shrewd Productions), The Get Together (Riot Studios) and Robin Hood: An Elegy (Generic Ensemble Company). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496255411447-BXHQBZ4RIXW5ADDJ77H7/Nikita+Redkar 2017 Lineup Nikita Redkar is a comedian living in Austin, Texas. She has performed at venues and clubs across the country and has been a part of the LA Funny Women's Festival 2015 and Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival 2016. She currently hosts a variety open mic called Playpen every Tuesday at The New Movement theater. She is also a published writer whose work has been featured in Reductress, Fusion, Huffington Post, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094005902-1ZHGDKB0YZ3X5W292OD4/The+Time+of+the+Month+with+Meghan+Ross 2017 Lineup Meghan Ross is the host of That Time of the Month, a late-night show hosted by women that your heart has long desired, but broadcast networks have never delivered! Once a month (assuring both are not on their periods so they can make clear-minded hosting decisions), Meghan Ross and a guest co-host will showcase all types of talented acts including music, stand-up, characters, sketches, jokes, and general weirdness from humans who happen to be women. Each episode also features an interview with a Strong Female Lead(er) in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496614886225-OXJN6GHZNCR3ZKW0T4MX/Roundhouse 2017 Lineup RoundHouse is a group of all-female teens who often perform longform improv shows in Austin, TX. Their talents include energetic group scenes, spontaneously breaking into song, and impeccable frat boy impersonations. This improv troupe was born out of ColdTowne Theater's "Excused Absence" program and has performed at BettyFest2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1499874536673-9VGSB5DBOKP6IEPVDLCE/Kim+Tran 2017 Lineup Kim Tran is a writer, actor and upcoming Michener fellow. She does improv and sketch in Austin and has written for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. She used to rock a mohawk! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093321864-SPFFZT4MBZ0LSUTVBOK8/Alyssa+Dillard 2017 Lineup When she’s not performing or fighting to crush the patriarchy, Alyssa writes everything from podcasts to puppet shows. An Austinite for 7 years, she strives to support local artists and designers. In the fall she’s headed to Prague to get an MFA in Devised and Object theatre. If anyone has a jacket send it over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496614769141-TBTE4JRFLNNBTELUBYBE/Loverboy 2017 Lineup Loverboy is an Austin-based improve troupe that uses real dating and relationship stories to inspire their fast-paced and exciting improv show. Each performance features a different guest storyteller that will delight the audience with their most shocking, cringe-worthy and downright hilarious tales of dating gone wrong (or right!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094072787-X20B1Y2CDP07F5QMNRKY/Carina+Magyar 2017 Lineup Carina Magyar has been performing stand-up comedy in Austin since 2010. In 2015, she participated in Hell Yes Fest (New Orleans), the inaugural Crossroads Comedy Festival (Indianapolis), and the 10th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest (Austin).She’s just a girl who used to be a boy. Some people find that pretty funny. For everyone else, she tells jokes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497912275766-B6XZ2WVUHU9YIIBQ3AIE/Elizabeth+Spears 2017 Lineup Elizabeth Spears is a comedian from Austin, Texas. She first performed stand-up in a church talent show at age 6, but took a 13-year hiatus to focus on her parents’ divorce. Now, at the age of 23, she is blossoming into a hot young professional who is constantly afraid. Lucky for you, her jokes have punchlines. Elizabeth was a finalist in the 2016 Funniest Person in Austin contest, and she co-hosts the monthly Damn Dirty Filthy Show at Nasty’s. If you try hard enough, you can find her performing frequently at shows all over Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500414749747-JO9KN1C2KHTTVBLSG58J/Linzy+Beltran 2017 Lineup Linzy Beltran is a writer/improviser based out of Austin, Texas. She is a member of such troupes as SheSheSheShe, Minority Report and Migas, which performs improv comedy in Spanish and English. Linzy is also a writer/producer/director of Trance, a sketch comedy duo with her friend/soulmate Kim Tran. In her spare time, Linzy works a full-time job at C3 Presents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093233452-MT712KMO9S1KDNW2DQGJ/Kim+Lowery 2017 Lineup Kim Lowery is an Austin-based actor, producer, and comedian. She is the Community Director of ColdTowne Theater where she graduated from their Advanced Studies Program. She is a writer and coaches teen improv troupe, RoundHouse Comedy Additionally, Kim is one of the producers of BettyFest ATX, an annual all-female comedy festival that celebrates the diverse female voices empowering the Austin comedy community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093487236-GAY6H03XRGLX4TZRD59Y/Yola+Lu 2017 Lineup Yola Lu is a stand up, improviser and writer originally from Seattle, now based in Austin. She is a member of the sketch troupe, Pendulum, and also produces her own monthly stand up show, the Brixton Comedy Hour. She is one of the co-founders of Disoriented Comedy, the first all female Asian American stand up comedy tour. In her spare time, she likes to be on her phone at the dog park while her dog chases everyone else's balls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093899161-CYU7WNPY86L3236KKFD7/Avery+Moore 2017 Lineup Avery was born is San Antonio, Texas, and would give up everything if only she were allowed to live at The Alamo. However, she currently resides in Austin. She’s a charmer with a 1200 dollar smile. Her fast wit, sarcasm, and whimsical story telling has won over audiences all over. She’s now a regular in the Austin scene, and hosts The Late Slot on Friday nights at The Velveeta Room. She has performed at Fun Fun Fun Fest, as well as Hell Yes Fest in Nola, and was recently selected to audition for Last Comic Standing in Las Angeles. Avery currently plays the supporting role of Valerie in the upcoming web series Pretty Awful. She’s also the drummer for the world famous comedy/synth/goth/pop band Brandon Lee and The Crows (@BLeeAndTheCrows). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093830994-HYO4GB0VURZU8WW80DQT/Ngozi+Kim 2017 Lineup Ngozi Kim is an actress and assistant director, known for Nneka the Uber Driver (2016), Six Pack Sam (2017) and My Mother's Eyes (2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497922276411-R5ARBPVN93R6KYON945W/The+Dynamite+Sisters 2017 Lineup The Dynamite Sisters are comprised of Texan-grown duo and creative scalawags Juliet Robb and Katie Folger. After becoming quick best friends and discovering their artistic synergy in college at UT Austin, Robb and Folger moved into a tiny apartment and began to envision an interactive sketch comedy platform that was satirical, timeless, boundary-bending, and sexy. And with that... The Dynamite Sisters, the bolder and braver and joy-chasing versions of themselves, were born— and they got to work! Together they crafted a television pilot that was in the finals for the Sundance Episodic Story Labs. Then, Katie and Juliet jetted off to Albuquerque, New Mexico for five months to workshop and shoot their first leg of work before returning to Austin to launch Dynamite Sisters Comedy in May 2017. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, the girls can’t wait to shoot the next leg of content with the talent and resources of their beloved hometown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660704709-RPWBN2ZWZXM5X9EVQOET/BABES+FEST+main+room+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660725712-YEZ4NIXYEJUC4LZPWYFW/BABES+FEST+room+one+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660750603-V4QUTYKGAXEL0W6DWHHH/BABES+FEST+room+two+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660819874-QSQK85UBEDLRHSUXBPN4/BABES+FEST+room+three+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091230675-CP49C4L8ZTTUVDGGF8WQ/Fum-Fum+Ko 2017 Lineup Fum Fum Ko is the photographer and director of Art is Cool; she is also the director of Nneka the Uber Driver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092148654-2JCG69D8UILNAEZJJJ27/Illyana+Bocanegra 2017 Lineup Illyana Bocanegra is a queer, latinx, documentary filmmaker living in Austin, Texas. She was born and raised in McAllen, Texas, a city near the border of Mexico. Her work is focused on community, women, and giving a spotlight to people and their stories. She's currently working on a film about The Year of The Blue and a web series about three young, latinx adults living their parent's American dream with local poet Julian Copado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092183663-6E7OUSME7GEHIB2K6230/Austin+While+Black+web+series 2017 Lineup Austin While Black is a webseries sharing the stories of Black Austinites. These are the stories that often get left out of discussions about Austin’s past, present, and future. There have always been Black people doing amazing things in Austin, and there always will be. Created by two UT Austin journalism grads, Evelyn and Doyin., Austin While Black's just reminding people that we outchea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092674239-BFX52OOYSRKIUEJJS8OU/Leather+Daddy 2017 Lineup "Leather Daddy" is an official music video for Sailor Poon directed by Allie Lane. Allie Lane is an intersectional feminist and voyeur, interpreting her political views into art to disseminate into the creative community through various formats: short films, music videos, dance performance and installation art. Additionally, she runs an art gallery collective in Austin, TX called MILK + cereal, where she has independently designed and directed various activist installations and performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092613139-8AZPY4R57B1O3IPX2YVW/Patricia+Vonne 2017 Lineup Directed by Patricia Vonne, Huerta de San Vicente is a homage to Federico Garcia Lorca. Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director who, in a career that spanned just 19 years before his untimely death, resurrected and revitalized the most basic strains of Spanish poetry and theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497229352142-3WO4H6VV47GUR5HE7QKE/Terry+Winchell 2017 Lineup Terry Winchell is a singer songwriter who grew up on the East End of Long Island, NY, surrounded by farmland and the ocean. From the beginning, her love of nature , activism and her experience as a traveling balladeer have infused her music, as well as her filmmaking. On the heels of finishing her 2016 album release, “Blue Flower,” Terry moved to the Southwest and makes her home in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1499633733780-LANR34H8P1056G128F4E/Urzula+from+Helmut+Studio 2017 Lineup Urzulka is a photographer and art director based out of Austin. She is a visual designer with Helmut Studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091635701-8B51HGM5JW74Q94L1ZOH/B.B.+Araya 2017 Lineup B. B. Araya is a filmmaker based in Austin, TX. Born and raised in Dallas, TX to Eritrean & Ethiopian parents, she started catching the feels from movies at an early age. Her film Beta premiered in Issa Rae's YouTube series #ShortFilmSundays in March 2017. She is currently working on a film series titled We Are that will premiere on a computer screen near you in Fall 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091963842-RD87YCCLZ2YO1NJX2DMW/Alison+Week 2017 Lineup As a freelance field producer and production manager based in Austin, TX, Alison Week recently started Third Voice Productions to support under represented voices in both narrative and documentary films. PETALS AND STEMS is a short film inspired by real life experiences having grown up in a flower shop in Hawaii. Alison previously wrote and directed the narrative short film PUSHING OUT DAISY which premiered at the Alaska International Film Festival 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092383071-A1GGK3XYEM12SA5TCOHJ/Project%3A+Girl+Episode+I+%26+II 2017 Lineup Project: Girl is a new film series about girlhood and identity, a movement for female empowerment and self-expression and the perfect place to overshare. Project: Girl was started by a group of women who found that sharing their most personal stories led to their deepest connections. We want to tell these stories to create community, dispel shame, and deepen the conversation around what it means to be a girl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092473901-WV0MG6U0HUAOW656UQHP/Jeanne+Stern 2017 Lineup Jeanne Stern creates bizarre cinematic worlds using a hybrid of animation and puppetry. Her work has screened internationally at venues including the Smithsonian, Heather Henson's "Handmade Puppet Dreams," South by Southwest, PBS, Berlin’s Werk-Raum Gallery, the Toronto Film Festival, Savannah College of Art and Design, Athens Video Art Festival, Moving Things Festival in Capetown South Africa, and UMIMA World Puppet Day in New Delhi India. She animated Ruth Fertig’s documentary “Yizkor,” which won the Student Academy Award Gold Prize for Documentary, and the CINE Gold Eagle Prize in 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092991576-ZEVIUA8E0TM0PX7Z3LVA/%22Naive%22+music+video 2017 Lineup "Naive" is the official music video for Monte co-directed by Jinni J and Garson Ormiston. Jinni J is a contemporary filmmaker, photographer and art director based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497922319794-2KB77QHMN7663L8BXXEW/Mireydi+Nunez 2017 Lineup Mireydi is an Austinite filmmaker. She's a Writer/Director who is dedicated in spotlighting POC stories that are often ignored. Mireydi is currently working on "The Way It Goes" web series and her next short film. This web series depicts Queer-Latinx Austinite's who are attempting to navigate their professional and personal lives in a very different city than the one they grew up in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1499633905308-10U8QX39T3K2DNAKX6T3/%22Plans%22+by+Shape+Agency 2017 Lineup Shape Agency is an advocate, a resource, and a support system. Our mission is to nurture the creative spirit of our clients, and provide a pathway to shape and reveal visionary success. We offer management, consulting, and photo/video production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091532730-9HB89LY2EPHI6E1TBX43/Jackson+movie+poster+by+Maise+Crow 2017 Lineup Jackson is an intimate, unprecedented look at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access. Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091707879-DBBRJT6QHMRDFQY9OXXX/Beach+Dance+by+Brittany+Reeber 2017 Lineup Brittany Reeber is a filmmaker who uses a variety of different visual approaches including music video, installation, narrative film and documentary. Her most recent project, You Are When You Sleep, is a 4 piece video art installation examining identity crisis and the divided, gendered self. It just completed its exhibition with Co-Lab projects in Austin, Texas. Her short narrative films, Psycho Billy (2013) and The Rapture and Gammy Gwen (2014), have been honored at the university level and screened around the U.S. She also works as a production manager, line producer and coordinator for feature films, music videos and commercials. She produced visual artist Mark Flood’s double-feature film project, Art Fair Fever, that has played in galleries worldwide including San Francisco, Berlin and London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092306904-2IGDJRE8GJ94OO5ZZXER/Without+and+Untitled+by+Faiza+Krancheni 2017 Lineup Faiza Kracheni (Education & Programming Director at Austin School of Film) is a born and raised Texan who currently serves as Austin School of Film's Education & Programming Director. In October 2015, Faiza founded two new programs for the Central Texas community including a sister-program to premiere under the Motion Media Arts Center umbrella, Austin Cinemaker Space in 2016. Austin Cinemaker Space will merge media arts education and community, demand fluency with ever evolving technologies, create and foster a more active learning process and directly serve as a reflection of the changing norms in educational and creative environments in digital media and film for the Austin Community. In addition to her involvement with MMAC, she is an active artist and musician within the Austin community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092781665-PGQ4USJVK9VQS3ZLTLDT/Keep+the+Fire+Lit+poster 2017 Lineup A Independent documentary that promises to expose the cultural history of Texas’ indigenous people that has secretly survived the brutal occupation of Spaniards. A window into the hearts and minds of Indigenous people of Texas. Though many tribes have been annihilated due to the historic colonization, many still practice their spiritual ceremonies. Passing on traditions through oral stories; educating the younger generations about their family’s rich history. Keep the Fire Lit will dive deep into this fascinating society with interviews from the people of these descendants. Connecting the dots of the social, political, and environmental implication of a lost identity re-emerging. First-time filmmaker, Texas veteran, and full-time mom. Fox RedSky is a member of the Austin Film School and the Austin Film Society. Inspired by her involvement with Native American church and her own Texas indigenous heritage; she found the courage to come forward with her idea for this film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496883200370-WY228VZ08K5PQGW6EHUP/Andrea+Zarate 2017 Lineup Andrea Zarate is a Latina director and cinematographer whose work examines the hardships in women’s lives. In creating her films, she gravitates towards abstract imagery, archives, and cinéma vérité to uniquely tell her stories. Her most notable projects include the short documentary, Susana Almanza: The Life of an Activist and short experimental film, Santa Madre Sálvanos. She is currently filming an experimental documentary following three Tejana artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1498789892099-VHHG0RJGU34GKOQNFWDG/Fembeat 2017 Lineup Based in Austin, Texas, FemBeat is a documentary series that amplfies the stories, perspectives, and work of feminists and self-identifying women. From musicians and magazine editors, to fashion designers and grassroots organizers, the feminists we follow are out to dismantle the everyday discrimination and marginalization faced by women with their tact and craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500482726762-OGKPGRJDFXF4B1O3WQ42/Alexandra+Thomas 2017 Lineup Alex Thomas is a writer, director, film teacher, and executive director of the Austin Youth Film Festival here in ATX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500906514728-PNFHZE7ODXB2495OSL76/BABES+FEST+music+day+3+schedule 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660896322-1MO3PQCAG7VQPLJ5OV8U/BABES+FEST+music+day+3+schedule 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094540491-LGZWKFBAPKP211VUBCZP/Femina-X 2017 Lineup Femina-X is an alternative, Latin band from San Antonio comprised of members Daniela Riojas (vox), Alex Scheel (guitar), Jeff Palacios (bass), Darian Thomas (violin), and Jai Roots (drums). Femina-X identifies as "New Alternative" and creates unconventional fusions with electronic beats, samples, synths, and live instruments. They draw musical influence from progressive tribal and ethnic dance, hip-hop, jungle, Caribbean, industrial, punk, and drum and bass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094998438-A2YM4XFRUGE5GKDIBY2I/The+Reputations 2017 Lineup The Reputations is a sunshine pop / soul band based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496095942034-56NYF4CF0JA9IH07TI3C/Signy 2017 Lineup Named after the Norse myth of two heroines in connected legends, SÍGNY creates alluring pop songs laced with elastic beats, ethereal soundscapes, and pristinely melded arrangements. Reminiscent of Sia, Lana Del Rey, and Florence + The Machine with a hint of Massive Attack, the duo wanted to create a “gorgeous landscape in a new world that you won’t want to leave,” so they teamed up with Grammy and Oscar nominated producer Bartholomew for their forthcoming debut album, WATER. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094603815-KYU7A0F1HH7WRVRY4KZ6/Sailon+Poon 2017 Lineup Sailor Poon is a "garage, psych, punk, poonrawk, cumwave" band based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497227618945-WV2CTG8P7NINC1ERBX6W/Darja 2017 Lineup Darja [pronounced Daria] is a singer-songwriter from Belgrade, Serbia living in Austin, Texas. Her debut EP "Serenity," which featured mostly piano and voice, explores the ideas of finding peace within and following one's dreams. She released her first music video for "Feed" earlier this year, and is preparing to release a new song, "9 to 5," which is weaving her into new musical directions. With a powerful, soulful voice and captivating stage presence, Darja is gaining recognition among the music community in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094767532-MQTRGNJX3RIB3EW81ECZ/Francine+Thirteen 2017 Lineup Francine Thirteen is: "Wild restoration(13)(1+3=4) & beats that growl. Magic of sacred virgins & holy whores. Sound of a Rose when she grows. The rhythm of a hero when he is born." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496095049551-S9L6EZCXMXXA2OWMDC2J/Polly+Anna 2017 Lineup Based in San Antonio, Texas, Polly Anna is your favorite jazz cochina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094505182-8ZPM45X28A55O1SG28UH/Sam+Lao 2017 Lineup Sam Lao is a rapper/singer in Dallas, Tx. Although an artist from birth - mainly drawing, painting and sculpting, she only recently began creating music. "I turned to music when my other creative outlets ceased to be satisfying anymore. I always sang just for fun but rapping was something new for me and I really took to it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096076470-JDZS0GURR5WN63U8KCG6/Melat 2017 Lineup Born in Austin, Texas, Mélat is the eclectic soul of RnB. Mélat tells a story that is both challenging and inspiring crafted from her very own life experiences. It is a pure and honest reflection of her soul. From love, lust, success, to failure Mélat sings of what it means to be a human being simply longing to “be." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096917789-BML97LDCMKXGUP40ZMON/Mea 2017 Lineup Amea is a rapper and performance artist based in San Antonio, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094705971-XLZWMG7VUV668VN4T6HG/Magna+Carda 2017 Lineup From their humble beginnings on a college campus four years ago, Magna Carda has steadily risen to the top of the Austin music scene as the premiere hip hop act of 2016. Described by Mashable as “Austin’s answer to The Roots,” Magna Carda is led by the city’s most dynamic MC-producer duo — Megz Kelli and Dougie Do — whose work pairs like a fine wine with the meat-and-potatoes backbone of the group’s signature live instrumentation. With their genre-defying blend of rap-meets-jazz-meets-R&B-meets-electronic, the band has quickly captured the imagination of listeners and the attention of critics alike in Austin and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096672803-GZGDQX5YKUS42IB0DN6I/Triplets 2017 Lineup Triplets is an eletronic dance duo based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500858928648-SQS7SYH9CWTH9Z6NYLSO/Dominic+G+Jones 2017 Lineup Dom G. Jones is an American filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She attended Columbia University in New York City, where she studied cinema, art, literature and Russian language. Her work spans various mediums as she engages audiences in questions of selfhood, spirituality, and everything in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094859943-OXIGX5JR4OG6ZLGLHEAZ/Alesia+Lani 2017 Lineup Every so often we can experience and artist who has an inherent star quality to them that makes them special, Midwest born, Austin raised soul singer Alesia Lani is one of those rare few. Combining a distinctive soulful voice with electric performances, the southern songbird has put many on alert that she is here to stay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096322788-DAMGO5D9YMRS7FZBD63H/Anastasia 2017 Lineup Anastasia discovered her passion for rap as a young girl in Austin, TX, where her father taught her to deliver MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech with a rhythm and clarity designed to get an audience on its feet. Learning the confidence required to deliver such a powerful message can take a lifetime. Anastasia found it as soon as she stood before a microphone. With the launch of four well-received projects: “Pretty Color Bad News" (2011), "The Unkind Summer" (2012), “CAKE” (2016), and Kale & Yoga” (2016), Anastasia has worked hard to establish herself with fans and followers as a true force and a new direction for Hip Hop. She has worked alongside legendary artists, perfecting her performance by opening for acts like Dead Prez, Raekwon, Boosie, GZA, Scarface, Aesop Rock, Azizi Gibson, and Astronautilis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496615370129-RQUBCQUFBNR5FX76ORHX/Chulita+Vinyl+Club+--+Austin 2017 Lineup Chulita Vinyl Club was launched in December 2014 as an all-girl all-vinyl club for self-identifying womxn of color in the context of providing a space for empowerment and togetherness. They stand united as a female DJ collective spanning 7 national chapters bringing together a community of vinyl loving girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500847209861-11L27MRVREBEZIA514EA/BABES+FEST+2017+poster+and+lineup 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093183984-J709ZLDPFKZAV04FMGBZ/Taji+Senior+headshot 2017 Lineup Taji Senior is a journalist, writer and performer based in Austin. Her credits include Doper than Dope (Heckle Her), As You Like It (Shrewd Productions), The Get Together (Riot Studios) and Robin Hood: An Elegy (Generic Ensemble Company). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496255411447-BXHQBZ4RIXW5ADDJ77H7/Nikita+Redkar 2017 Lineup Nikita Redkar is a comedian living in Austin, Texas. She has performed at venues and clubs across the country and has been a part of the LA Funny Women's Festival 2015 and Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival 2016. She currently hosts a variety open mic called Playpen every Tuesday at The New Movement theater. She is also a published writer whose work has been featured in Reductress, Fusion, Huffington Post, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094005902-1ZHGDKB0YZ3X5W292OD4/The+Time+of+the+Month+with+Meghan+Ross 2017 Lineup Meghan Ross is the host of That Time of the Month, a late-night show hosted by women that your heart has long desired, but broadcast networks have never delivered! Once a month (assuring both are not on their periods so they can make clear-minded hosting decisions), Meghan Ross and a guest co-host will showcase all types of talented acts including music, stand-up, characters, sketches, jokes, and general weirdness from humans who happen to be women. Each episode also features an interview with a Strong Female Lead(er) in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496614886225-OXJN6GHZNCR3ZKW0T4MX/Roundhouse 2017 Lineup RoundHouse is a group of all-female teens who often perform longform improv shows in Austin, TX. Their talents include energetic group scenes, spontaneously breaking into song, and impeccable frat boy impersonations. This improv troupe was born out of ColdTowne Theater's "Excused Absence" program and has performed at BettyFest2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1499874536673-9VGSB5DBOKP6IEPVDLCE/Kim+Tran 2017 Lineup Kim Tran is a writer, actor and upcoming Michener fellow. She does improv and sketch in Austin and has written for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. She used to rock a mohawk! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093321864-SPFFZT4MBZ0LSUTVBOK8/Alyssa+Dillard 2017 Lineup When she’s not performing or fighting to crush the patriarchy, Alyssa writes everything from podcasts to puppet shows. An Austinite for 7 years, she strives to support local artists and designers. In the fall she’s headed to Prague to get an MFA in Devised and Object theatre. If anyone has a jacket send it over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496614769141-TBTE4JRFLNNBTELUBYBE/Loverboy 2017 Lineup Loverboy is an Austin-based improve troupe that uses real dating and relationship stories to inspire their fast-paced and exciting improv show. Each performance features a different guest storyteller that will delight the audience with their most shocking, cringe-worthy and downright hilarious tales of dating gone wrong (or right!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094072787-X20B1Y2CDP07F5QMNRKY/Carina+Magyar 2017 Lineup Carina Magyar has been performing stand-up comedy in Austin since 2010. In 2015, she participated in Hell Yes Fest (New Orleans), the inaugural Crossroads Comedy Festival (Indianapolis), and the 10th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest (Austin).She’s just a girl who used to be a boy. Some people find that pretty funny. For everyone else, she tells jokes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497912275766-B6XZ2WVUHU9YIIBQ3AIE/Elizabeth+Spears 2017 Lineup Elizabeth Spears is a comedian from Austin, Texas. She first performed stand-up in a church talent show at age 6, but took a 13-year hiatus to focus on her parents’ divorce. Now, at the age of 23, she is blossoming into a hot young professional who is constantly afraid. Lucky for you, her jokes have punchlines. Elizabeth was a finalist in the 2016 Funniest Person in Austin contest, and she co-hosts the monthly Damn Dirty Filthy Show at Nasty’s. If you try hard enough, you can find her performing frequently at shows all over Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500414749747-JO9KN1C2KHTTVBLSG58J/Linzy+Beltran 2017 Lineup Linzy Beltran is a writer/improviser based out of Austin, Texas. She is a member of such troupes as SheSheSheShe, Minority Report and Migas, which performs improv comedy in Spanish and English. Linzy is also a writer/producer/director of Trance, a sketch comedy duo with her friend/soulmate Kim Tran. In her spare time, Linzy works a full-time job at C3 Presents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093233452-MT712KMO9S1KDNW2DQGJ/Kim+Lowery 2017 Lineup Kim Lowery is an Austin-based actor, producer, and comedian. She is the Community Director of ColdTowne Theater where she graduated from their Advanced Studies Program. She is a writer and coaches teen improv troupe, RoundHouse Comedy Additionally, Kim is one of the producers of BettyFest ATX, an annual all-female comedy festival that celebrates the diverse female voices empowering the Austin comedy community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093487236-GAY6H03XRGLX4TZRD59Y/Yola+Lu 2017 Lineup Yola Lu is a stand up, improviser and writer originally from Seattle, now based in Austin. She is a member of the sketch troupe, Pendulum, and also produces her own monthly stand up show, the Brixton Comedy Hour. She is one of the co-founders of Disoriented Comedy, the first all female Asian American stand up comedy tour. In her spare time, she likes to be on her phone at the dog park while her dog chases everyone else's balls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093899161-CYU7WNPY86L3236KKFD7/Avery+Moore 2017 Lineup Avery was born is San Antonio, Texas, and would give up everything if only she were allowed to live at The Alamo. However, she currently resides in Austin. She’s a charmer with a 1200 dollar smile. Her fast wit, sarcasm, and whimsical story telling has won over audiences all over. She’s now a regular in the Austin scene, and hosts The Late Slot on Friday nights at The Velveeta Room. She has performed at Fun Fun Fun Fest, as well as Hell Yes Fest in Nola, and was recently selected to audition for Last Comic Standing in Las Angeles. Avery currently plays the supporting role of Valerie in the upcoming web series Pretty Awful. She’s also the drummer for the world famous comedy/synth/goth/pop band Brandon Lee and The Crows (@BLeeAndTheCrows). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496093830994-HYO4GB0VURZU8WW80DQT/Ngozi+Kim 2017 Lineup Ngozi Kim is an actress and assistant director, known for Nneka the Uber Driver (2016), Six Pack Sam (2017) and My Mother's Eyes (2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497922276411-R5ARBPVN93R6KYON945W/The+Dynamite+Sisters 2017 Lineup The Dynamite Sisters are comprised of Texan-grown duo and creative scalawags Juliet Robb and Katie Folger. After becoming quick best friends and discovering their artistic synergy in college at UT Austin, Robb and Folger moved into a tiny apartment and began to envision an interactive sketch comedy platform that was satirical, timeless, boundary-bending, and sexy. And with that... The Dynamite Sisters, the bolder and braver and joy-chasing versions of themselves, were born— and they got to work! Together they crafted a television pilot that was in the finals for the Sundance Episodic Story Labs. Then, Katie and Juliet jetted off to Albuquerque, New Mexico for five months to workshop and shoot their first leg of work before returning to Austin to launch Dynamite Sisters Comedy in May 2017. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, the girls can’t wait to shoot the next leg of content with the talent and resources of their beloved hometown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660704709-RPWBN2ZWZXM5X9EVQOET/BABES+FEST+main+room+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660725712-YEZ4NIXYEJUC4LZPWYFW/BABES+FEST+room+one+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660750603-V4QUTYKGAXEL0W6DWHHH/BABES+FEST+room+two+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660819874-QSQK85UBEDLRHSUXBPN4/BABES+FEST+room+three+lineup+poster 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091230675-CP49C4L8ZTTUVDGGF8WQ/Fum-Fum+Ko 2017 Lineup Fum Fum Ko is the photographer and director of Art is Cool; she is also the director of Nneka the Uber Driver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092148654-2JCG69D8UILNAEZJJJ27/Illyana+Bocanegra 2017 Lineup Illyana Bocanegra is a queer, latinx, documentary filmmaker living in Austin, Texas. She was born and raised in McAllen, Texas, a city near the border of Mexico. Her work is focused on community, women, and giving a spotlight to people and their stories. She's currently working on a film about The Year of The Blue and a web series about three young, latinx adults living their parent's American dream with local poet Julian Copado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092183663-6E7OUSME7GEHIB2K6230/Austin+While+Black+web+series 2017 Lineup Austin While Black is a webseries sharing the stories of Black Austinites. These are the stories that often get left out of discussions about Austin’s past, present, and future. There have always been Black people doing amazing things in Austin, and there always will be. Created by two UT Austin journalism grads, Evelyn and Doyin., Austin While Black's just reminding people that we outchea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092674239-BFX52OOYSRKIUEJJS8OU/Leather+Daddy 2017 Lineup "Leather Daddy" is an official music video for Sailor Poon directed by Allie Lane. Allie Lane is an intersectional feminist and voyeur, interpreting her political views into art to disseminate into the creative community through various formats: short films, music videos, dance performance and installation art. Additionally, she runs an art gallery collective in Austin, TX called MILK + cereal, where she has independently designed and directed various activist installations and performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092613139-8AZPY4R57B1O3IPX2YVW/Patricia+Vonne 2017 Lineup Directed by Patricia Vonne, Huerta de San Vicente is a homage to Federico Garcia Lorca. Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright and theatre director who, in a career that spanned just 19 years before his untimely death, resurrected and revitalized the most basic strains of Spanish poetry and theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497229352142-3WO4H6VV47GUR5HE7QKE/Terry+Winchell 2017 Lineup Terry Winchell is a singer songwriter who grew up on the East End of Long Island, NY, surrounded by farmland and the ocean. From the beginning, her love of nature , activism and her experience as a traveling balladeer have infused her music, as well as her filmmaking. On the heels of finishing her 2016 album release, “Blue Flower,” Terry moved to the Southwest and makes her home in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1499633733780-LANR34H8P1056G128F4E/Urzula+from+Helmut+Studio 2017 Lineup Urzulka is a photographer and art director based out of Austin. She is a visual designer with Helmut Studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091635701-8B51HGM5JW74Q94L1ZOH/B.B.+Araya 2017 Lineup B. B. Araya is a filmmaker based in Austin, TX. Born and raised in Dallas, TX to Eritrean & Ethiopian parents, she started catching the feels from movies at an early age. Her film Beta premiered in Issa Rae's YouTube series #ShortFilmSundays in March 2017. She is currently working on a film series titled We Are that will premiere on a computer screen near you in Fall 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091963842-RD87YCCLZ2YO1NJX2DMW/Alison+Week 2017 Lineup As a freelance field producer and production manager based in Austin, TX, Alison Week recently started Third Voice Productions to support under represented voices in both narrative and documentary films. PETALS AND STEMS is a short film inspired by real life experiences having grown up in a flower shop in Hawaii. Alison previously wrote and directed the narrative short film PUSHING OUT DAISY which premiered at the Alaska International Film Festival 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092383071-A1GGK3XYEM12SA5TCOHJ/Project%3A+Girl+Episode+I+%26+II 2017 Lineup Project: Girl is a new film series about girlhood and identity, a movement for female empowerment and self-expression and the perfect place to overshare. Project: Girl was started by a group of women who found that sharing their most personal stories led to their deepest connections. We want to tell these stories to create community, dispel shame, and deepen the conversation around what it means to be a girl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092473901-WV0MG6U0HUAOW656UQHP/Jeanne+Stern 2017 Lineup Jeanne Stern creates bizarre cinematic worlds using a hybrid of animation and puppetry. Her work has screened internationally at venues including the Smithsonian, Heather Henson's "Handmade Puppet Dreams," South by Southwest, PBS, Berlin’s Werk-Raum Gallery, the Toronto Film Festival, Savannah College of Art and Design, Athens Video Art Festival, Moving Things Festival in Capetown South Africa, and UMIMA World Puppet Day in New Delhi India. She animated Ruth Fertig’s documentary “Yizkor,” which won the Student Academy Award Gold Prize for Documentary, and the CINE Gold Eagle Prize in 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092991576-ZEVIUA8E0TM0PX7Z3LVA/%22Naive%22+music+video 2017 Lineup "Naive" is the official music video for Monte co-directed by Jinni J and Garson Ormiston. Jinni J is a contemporary filmmaker, photographer and art director based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497922319794-2KB77QHMN7663L8BXXEW/Mireydi+Nunez 2017 Lineup Mireydi is an Austinite filmmaker. She's a Writer/Director who is dedicated in spotlighting POC stories that are often ignored. Mireydi is currently working on "The Way It Goes" web series and her next short film. This web series depicts Queer-Latinx Austinite's who are attempting to navigate their professional and personal lives in a very different city than the one they grew up in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1499633905308-10U8QX39T3K2DNAKX6T3/%22Plans%22+by+Shape+Agency 2017 Lineup Shape Agency is an advocate, a resource, and a support system. Our mission is to nurture the creative spirit of our clients, and provide a pathway to shape and reveal visionary success. We offer management, consulting, and photo/video production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091532730-9HB89LY2EPHI6E1TBX43/Jackson+movie+poster+by+Maise+Crow 2017 Lineup Jackson is an intimate, unprecedented look at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access. Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496091707879-DBBRJT6QHMRDFQY9OXXX/Beach+Dance+by+Brittany+Reeber 2017 Lineup Brittany Reeber is a filmmaker who uses a variety of different visual approaches including music video, installation, narrative film and documentary. Her most recent project, You Are When You Sleep, is a 4 piece video art installation examining identity crisis and the divided, gendered self. It just completed its exhibition with Co-Lab projects in Austin, Texas. Her short narrative films, Psycho Billy (2013) and The Rapture and Gammy Gwen (2014), have been honored at the university level and screened around the U.S. She also works as a production manager, line producer and coordinator for feature films, music videos and commercials. She produced visual artist Mark Flood’s double-feature film project, Art Fair Fever, that has played in galleries worldwide including San Francisco, Berlin and London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092306904-2IGDJRE8GJ94OO5ZZXER/Without+and+Untitled+by+Faiza+Krancheni 2017 Lineup Faiza Kracheni (Education & Programming Director at Austin School of Film) is a born and raised Texan who currently serves as Austin School of Film's Education & Programming Director. In October 2015, Faiza founded two new programs for the Central Texas community including a sister-program to premiere under the Motion Media Arts Center umbrella, Austin Cinemaker Space in 2016. Austin Cinemaker Space will merge media arts education and community, demand fluency with ever evolving technologies, create and foster a more active learning process and directly serve as a reflection of the changing norms in educational and creative environments in digital media and film for the Austin Community. In addition to her involvement with MMAC, she is an active artist and musician within the Austin community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496092781665-PGQ4USJVK9VQS3ZLTLDT/Keep+the+Fire+Lit+poster 2017 Lineup A Independent documentary that promises to expose the cultural history of Texas’ indigenous people that has secretly survived the brutal occupation of Spaniards. A window into the hearts and minds of Indigenous people of Texas. Though many tribes have been annihilated due to the historic colonization, many still practice their spiritual ceremonies. Passing on traditions through oral stories; educating the younger generations about their family’s rich history. Keep the Fire Lit will dive deep into this fascinating society with interviews from the people of these descendants. Connecting the dots of the social, political, and environmental implication of a lost identity re-emerging. First-time filmmaker, Texas veteran, and full-time mom. Fox RedSky is a member of the Austin Film School and the Austin Film Society. Inspired by her involvement with Native American church and her own Texas indigenous heritage; she found the courage to come forward with her idea for this film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496883200370-WY228VZ08K5PQGW6EHUP/Andrea+Zarate 2017 Lineup Andrea Zarate is a Latina director and cinematographer whose work examines the hardships in women’s lives. In creating her films, she gravitates towards abstract imagery, archives, and cinéma vérité to uniquely tell her stories. Her most notable projects include the short documentary, Susana Almanza: The Life of an Activist and short experimental film, Santa Madre Sálvanos. She is currently filming an experimental documentary following three Tejana artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1498789892099-VHHG0RJGU34GKOQNFWDG/Fembeat 2017 Lineup Based in Austin, Texas, FemBeat is a documentary series that amplfies the stories, perspectives, and work of feminists and self-identifying women. From musicians and magazine editors, to fashion designers and grassroots organizers, the feminists we follow are out to dismantle the everyday discrimination and marginalization faced by women with their tact and craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500482726762-OGKPGRJDFXF4B1O3WQ42/Alexandra+Thomas 2017 Lineup Alex Thomas is a writer, director, film teacher, and executive director of the Austin Youth Film Festival here in ATX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500906514728-PNFHZE7ODXB2495OSL76/BABES+FEST+music+day+3+schedule 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500660896322-1MO3PQCAG7VQPLJ5OV8U/BABES+FEST+music+day+3+schedule 2017 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094540491-LGZWKFBAPKP211VUBCZP/Femina-X 2017 Lineup Femina-X is an alternative, Latin band from San Antonio comprised of members Daniela Riojas (vox), Alex Scheel (guitar), Jeff Palacios (bass), Darian Thomas (violin), and Jai Roots (drums). Femina-X identifies as "New Alternative" and creates unconventional fusions with electronic beats, samples, synths, and live instruments. They draw musical influence from progressive tribal and ethnic dance, hip-hop, jungle, Caribbean, industrial, punk, and drum and bass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094998438-A2YM4XFRUGE5GKDIBY2I/The+Reputations 2017 Lineup The Reputations is a sunshine pop / soul band based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496095942034-56NYF4CF0JA9IH07TI3C/Signy 2017 Lineup Named after the Norse myth of two heroines in connected legends, SÍGNY creates alluring pop songs laced with elastic beats, ethereal soundscapes, and pristinely melded arrangements. Reminiscent of Sia, Lana Del Rey, and Florence + The Machine with a hint of Massive Attack, the duo wanted to create a “gorgeous landscape in a new world that you won’t want to leave,” so they teamed up with Grammy and Oscar nominated producer Bartholomew for their forthcoming debut album, WATER. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094603815-KYU7A0F1HH7WRVRY4KZ6/Sailon+Poon 2017 Lineup Sailor Poon is a "garage, psych, punk, poonrawk, cumwave" band based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1497227618945-WV2CTG8P7NINC1ERBX6W/Darja 2017 Lineup Darja [pronounced Daria] is a singer-songwriter from Belgrade, Serbia living in Austin, Texas. Her debut EP "Serenity," which featured mostly piano and voice, explores the ideas of finding peace within and following one's dreams. She released her first music video for "Feed" earlier this year, and is preparing to release a new song, "9 to 5," which is weaving her into new musical directions. With a powerful, soulful voice and captivating stage presence, Darja is gaining recognition among the music community in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094767532-MQTRGNJX3RIB3EW81ECZ/Francine+Thirteen 2017 Lineup Francine Thirteen is: "Wild restoration(13)(1+3=4) & beats that growl. Magic of sacred virgins & holy whores. Sound of a Rose when she grows. The rhythm of a hero when he is born." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496095049551-S9L6EZCXMXXA2OWMDC2J/Polly+Anna 2017 Lineup Based in San Antonio, Texas, Polly Anna is your favorite jazz cochina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094505182-8ZPM45X28A55O1SG28UH/Sam+Lao 2017 Lineup Sam Lao is a rapper/singer in Dallas, Tx. Although an artist from birth - mainly drawing, painting and sculpting, she only recently began creating music. "I turned to music when my other creative outlets ceased to be satisfying anymore. I always sang just for fun but rapping was something new for me and I really took to it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096076470-JDZS0GURR5WN63U8KCG6/Melat 2017 Lineup Born in Austin, Texas, Mélat is the eclectic soul of RnB. Mélat tells a story that is both challenging and inspiring crafted from her very own life experiences. It is a pure and honest reflection of her soul. From love, lust, success, to failure Mélat sings of what it means to be a human being simply longing to “be." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096917789-BML97LDCMKXGUP40ZMON/Mea 2017 Lineup Amea is a rapper and performance artist based in San Antonio, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094705971-XLZWMG7VUV668VN4T6HG/Magna+Carda 2017 Lineup From their humble beginnings on a college campus four years ago, Magna Carda has steadily risen to the top of the Austin music scene as the premiere hip hop act of 2016. Described by Mashable as “Austin’s answer to The Roots,” Magna Carda is led by the city’s most dynamic MC-producer duo — Megz Kelli and Dougie Do — whose work pairs like a fine wine with the meat-and-potatoes backbone of the group’s signature live instrumentation. With their genre-defying blend of rap-meets-jazz-meets-R&B-meets-electronic, the band has quickly captured the imagination of listeners and the attention of critics alike in Austin and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096672803-GZGDQX5YKUS42IB0DN6I/Triplets 2017 Lineup Triplets is an eletronic dance duo based in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1500858928648-SQS7SYH9CWTH9Z6NYLSO/Dominic+G+Jones 2017 Lineup Dom G. Jones is an American filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She attended Columbia University in New York City, where she studied cinema, art, literature and Russian language. Her work spans various mediums as she engages audiences in questions of selfhood, spirituality, and everything in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496094859943-OXIGX5JR4OG6ZLGLHEAZ/Alesia+Lani 2017 Lineup Every so often we can experience and artist who has an inherent star quality to them that makes them special, Midwest born, Austin raised soul singer Alesia Lani is one of those rare few. Combining a distinctive soulful voice with electric performances, the southern songbird has put many on alert that she is here to stay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496096322788-DAMGO5D9YMRS7FZBD63H/Anastasia 2017 Lineup Anastasia discovered her passion for rap as a young girl in Austin, TX, where her father taught her to deliver MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech with a rhythm and clarity designed to get an audience on its feet. Learning the confidence required to deliver such a powerful message can take a lifetime. Anastasia found it as soon as she stood before a microphone. With the launch of four well-received projects: “Pretty Color Bad News" (2011), "The Unkind Summer" (2012), “CAKE” (2016), and Kale & Yoga” (2016), Anastasia has worked hard to establish herself with fans and followers as a true force and a new direction for Hip Hop. She has worked alongside legendary artists, perfecting her performance by opening for acts like Dead Prez, Raekwon, Boosie, GZA, Scarface, Aesop Rock, Azizi Gibson, and Astronautilis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1496615370129-RQUBCQUFBNR5FX76ORHX/Chulita+Vinyl+Club+--+Austin 2017 Lineup Chulita Vinyl Club was launched in December 2014 as an all-girl all-vinyl club for self-identifying womxn of color in the context of providing a space for empowerment and togetherness. They stand united as a female DJ collective spanning 7 national chapters bringing together a community of vinyl loving girls. https://thefrontfest.com/lineup18 daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1531264524860-PN3V51T3S8PYZWFZEMGY/BABES+FEST+opening+night+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1531503793962-UYDEN7IE2MQDG3IDLRAC/BABES+FEST+day+one+film+showcase+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1529373752890-A3M84222JUNELT5QBYR1/BABES+FEST+day+two+pop-up+shop+and+panels+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1529432155853-9N2U4AHKS4KAOQ95GFQI/BABES+FEST+day+two%3A+music+showcase+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1529432137809-KGXRO31JSOG1PBN1ADYI/BABES+FEST+day+three%3A+brunch+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1531264524860-PN3V51T3S8PYZWFZEMGY/BABES+FEST+opening+night+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1531503793962-UYDEN7IE2MQDG3IDLRAC/BABES+FEST+day+one+film+showcase+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1529373752890-A3M84222JUNELT5QBYR1/BABES+FEST+day+two+pop-up+shop+and+panels+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1529432155853-9N2U4AHKS4KAOQ95GFQI/BABES+FEST+day+two%3A+music+showcase+poster 2018 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1529432137809-KGXRO31JSOG1PBN1ADYI/BABES+FEST+day+three%3A+brunch+poster 2018 Lineup https://thefrontfest.com/artists daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567013972066-D6WYFRNTQLKQWM33QY4O/BABES+FEST+artists+group+photo 2019 Lineup photo by Jinni J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567013972066-D6WYFRNTQLKQWM33QY4O/BABES+FEST+artists+group+photo 2019 Lineup photo by Jinni J https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562094490460-BIZOQVMML3QWVU9FQY23/madamegandhi1.png 2019 Lineup - Madame Gandhi Kiran Gandhi, known by her stage name Madame Gandhi, is an electronic music artist and activist based in Los Angeles. Having gained recognition as the former drummer for M.I.A. and Kehlani and as the iconic free-bleeding runner at the 2015 London Marathon, Madame Gandhi now writes music that elevates and celebrates the female voice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566238783646-RSX2ZAJDC12JH6EHPV9L/JARINADEMARCO_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Jarina De Marco Jarina De Marco and her sound embody the multi-ethnic future. Her work defiantly transcends categories and borders. She is a creative visionary who sings in four languages and spearheads all aspects of her project: songwriting, production, visual design and video direction. She’s supported by a creative and politically left leaning community of like-minded globalistas, Jarina is out to make a difference through her art and music. Jarina's first single "Tigre" was released as part of the Broad City (Comedy Central) soundtrack, and is one of many songs of hers featured on the show. Pitchfork and FADER were among her early supporters as well as Mark Ronson and Major Lazer who have collaborated with her as a vocalist for their projects. Following the success of “Tigre”, she released "Release The Hounds" in support for the people of Standing Rock’s movement to protect their land against the Dakota pipeline. Rosario Dawson, Chris Rock, Laura Gomez, and others joined in the cause to create this moving visual piece. Jarina’s childhood and family inform her genre-defying sound and politics. She was born in the Dominican Republic and spent her early years traveling in remote parts of the Amazonian rainforest and Dominican countryside, cataloguing indigenous sounds and rhythms with her parents, both renowned musicologists and musicians. As part of the resistance against the brutal dictatorship of Joaquín Balaguer, her parents performed a protest song in front of a large public gathering and had to immediately flee the country and were forced into exile where they relocated to Montreal until it was safe to return home. As an outspoken advocate of women's rights and human equality, Jarina's music is a unique blend of global consciousness and global rhythms. She simultaneously supports the message of resistance, while creating a colorful sound entirely her own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562094477310-2W13KG2PHG1DJ3W2GX5R/CALLIOPE_BF2019-1.png 2019 Lineup - Calliope Musicals Calliope Musicals is a cheerful psychedelic party folk band from Austin TX. Their high-energy live performance focuses on involving the crowd. A squad of musicians fill in their folksy roots with a mix of vibraphone, tribal drums, bass, lead guitar and explosive vocals. The band exudes feel-good vibes that aim to swallow listeners and spit them out as happier versions of their former selves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562094501163-HHE7MGV8WWMWOIAVSKIJ/zyah_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - ZYAH Memphis born, Dallas raised artist ZYAH is a singer, songwriter, and classically trained pianist. She started playing piano at the age of 4 and by the age of 13 she had already begun singing and touring with competitive all-city choirs and bands. She continued to fuel her passion for music by establishing herself as a beloved cover-act at the University of North Texas. She garnered a great word-of mouth buzz and began booking her own gigs at college showcases and local bars. Determined to not be pigeonholed as a cover-act, ZYAH took time write and develop her own original music. She began fusing jazz chords with clever word play and angelic sultry vocals to craft her own unique style. After college, she brought her talents to Dallas and began booking more shows to test out her new material. ZYAH has played some of the most prominent venues in DFW including Trees, The Palladium, Prophet Bar and Club Dada. After a few years of testing the waters, ZYAH is finally ready to take her full plunge into the music scene and solidify herself as an established musical force to be revered with her debut EP set to release 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562094505910-E6YP358MSFAUQUESDR5O/FUVK_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - FVCK fvck is a project archived on bandcamp. It's meant to be an "audio journal" of performer Shirley Zhu’s life. Stripped down and acoustic,a keyboard, and sometimes a violin or drum pad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1563926073686-HNIYD2OFVU2BG8X9DBVN/NIAKB_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Nia KB Nia KB [they/them] is a Black queer nonbinary poet, editor, and educator currently based in Austin, TX. They’ve received fellowships from Texas Christian University, Lambda Literary, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, Winter Tangerine, The Speakeasy Project, and UTSA’s African American Literatures and Cultures Institute. Their poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Matador Review, Sappho's Torque, Vagabond City Lit, Rising Phoenix Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Foglifter Press, The Shade Journal, and elsewhere. When they’re not blessing stages or writing pages, they serve as a Teaching Artist for Creative Action and the Austin Library Foundation, Curator/Host of the open mic/reading series Austin Interfaces, Assistant Editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Associate Poetry Editor for fields Magazine, and proud member of Lenguas Loc@s Writers Collective. If you got this far, follow them on the interwebs [at] nia_kb, and click here to view their CV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562094550624-MDZJFW3G1U9TKW19YBC1/GARLAND_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Jess Garland Jess Garland is a Dallas based singer/songwriter, recording and performing artist. She is a multi-instrumentalist, using a combination of harp and guitar loops evoking elements of ambient folk and celestial tones. Jess most recently received a grant from The Nasher Sculpture Center to record her single "Live Again" and create a music video on Fair Park grounds. The setting for the music video will be at the Women's Building focusing on The Spirt of Centennial sculpture. Jess most recently performed in Austin on July 5th for New Media Art and Sound Summit sponsored by Church of The Friendly Ghost. Jess received a grant from the City of Dallas' Office of Cultural Affairs for her performance "Take Me Oya" in April 2019 for Dallas Arts Month at South Dallas Cultural Center. Jess also received a grant for Aurora’s 2018 Future Worlds theme for her performance "Resurrecting Gaia" in October 2018 at Kettle Art Gallery. "Resurrecting Gaia" was featured in New York’s Vulture Magazine and also listed as a top pick of events to see by KERA’s Art and Seek and D Magazine. In July 2018, Jess opened for The Academy member, Gingger Shankar for Fortress Fest Presents Modern Music Series at The Modern Museum of Ft. Worth. Jess is also an educator and has a non-profit free music education program, Swan Strings that has been recently featured in Advocate Magazine and D Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562189754936-RQC01TNCGO34XOMWGCUZ/SUNBUZZED_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - SUNBUZZED Sunbuzzed, the self-described psychedelic brujas, hail from Denton, TX with each member individually coming from all over the state. The coven of four started playing music together in late 2015 and has since casted audience members into a spooky, intense and mindbending spell. Drawing from their shared latinx culture Sunbuzzed aims to channel brujeria and magic into their music. Honoring the ones who came before while still carving out a new path unique to themselves. Heavy guitar, driving drum beats, haunting vocals, and cathedral-like organ paint the sound that is Sunbuzzed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562810851679-D9BDMXX2T27PYTTEB8CA/LITTLEMAZARN_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Little Mazarn The music of Little Mazarn is a cool float a few feet from the ground through a dimly lit, almost familiar forest. It is quieter than silence, big as everything, still but always moving. If you’ve ever had flying dreams, or an amazing night time bike ride on LSD, this might be a world for you. Chords are made up of notes; Little Mazarn gives them all their own moment. There are NO superfluous notes played here. Lindsey’s kind and twisting voice ambles along over the spare sounds of Jeff Johnston’s saw bowing, Ralph White’s electric mbira wanderings, and her own slow banjo. Like DJ Screw, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, and anyone who chooses to walk instead of ride, Lindsey realizes the amazing power of slow… slow… slow music. Lindsey is at once a baby and a wise old man. Get in this canoe at dawn on some Texas river that remembers when Comanche slept under the stars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1565371512055-7LJESDN61Y43Y7A48IZG/CLEE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - CLEE Clee's brazen, electro fueled music embraces elements of pop, hip hop, and r&b and is matched by colorful visual style expressed in fashion and more. The San Antonio songwriter released her latest EP, OverKILL, in 2017 and has been on the glow up since. She gets her influence from 90s female rappers but fuses it with a futuristic version of the same confidence and mold breaking initiatives from those before her. She hopes to instill confidence in women and make them feel like they have the power to do anything they want despite what society expects. Currently she is working on her 2nd EP set to be released late 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1565718730903-5LGDQDMEH7Q1MWN9VOHK/SHANI_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - DJ Shani Heavily influenced by the soul, funk & jazz scenes of Chicago’s south side, DJ Shani has always been enveloped by music. Throughout her childhood, her family taught her the roots of her sound (Zydeco, Blues, Jazz, Reggae, Funk, Soul), while the radio (Energy 88.7fm, B96, WGCI) taught her the future of her sound. After a few years in the rave scene, first as a patron then as a promoter, she noticed that the energy was inviting, but it was missing something. While she was a junior at Loyola University - Chicago, she set in motion what would be her biggest contribution to the House music scene to date. In May of 1998, DJ Shani created & produced a Deep House radio show coined “The Groove Temple®” on WLUW-88.7FM that filled a void for the most prominent, yet canceled house music radio station, WBMX. She has a humble, personal & realistic outlook about the DJ craft, “For me, it was & still is about sharing music, providing a music experience to people & giving exposure to DJs who aren’t given the chance to play out. I come from musicians – both grandfathers played music in the same band. My grandmother played piano, my uncle plays guitar and my immediate family still plays music for a living.” Her father, was an avid record collector, her stepfather, guitarist Abdul Hakeem of the world music Chicago-based group Funkadesi, toured with Rita Marley when she was in high school. Her brother, who goes by the moniker KrushLove, has been making music longer than she’s been a DJ. Her mother is the only one that doesn’t make music, but she more than makes up for it by being a playwright. When people say they’ve grown up with music, she relates. Even after her graduation from Loyola in 2001, she continued to produce The Groove Temple®, was a freelance writer for various Chicago music magazines (5Magazine, L’Afrique) & worked at the famous Gramaphone Records. There, she helped promote both, by organizing the first ever record fair between Gramaphone & WLUW. In 2004 she moved to Paris & attended L'Universite de Paris - La Sorbonne. She performed at La Maroquinerie with Karl The Voice (Playing for the City) and at Sanz Senz with DJ Wamba (Les Nubians).Once returning from Paris, she kept producing & hosting The Groove Temple®, continued as a freelance music journalist & DJ’d throughout Chicago for various residencies, events & music festivals. In 2006 she worked with Jay-Cee & Glenn Underground, wrote & performed “Mon Ami, Mon Amour”. In 2013, she was diagnosed with MS and attributes the music & DJ culture to her healing. For 17 years, DJ Shani was the Executive Producer of the Saturday night, 4 hour radio show, with hundreds of listeners worldwide. The Groove Temple® has hosted an impressive roster of guest DJs & interviews like Derrick Carter, DJ Touch (France), Osunlade, DJ Légo, Alix Alvarez, Sean Haley, Oscar McMillan, Lady D, DJ Frique, Bucie, Andre Harris, Phil Asher, Leonard Part VI, Black Coffee, DJ Heather & Ron Trent just to name a few. In October of 2017 she relaunched The Groove Temple® and partnered with Soundwave Radio and 92.3 fm in London, England. The Groove Temple is now back to basics with the same vibe and energy that it once had almost two decades ago. In 2009 she moved to Austin, Texas where she currently resides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566760133667-70UVJVTNJADJ6YBK9UFX/GENTRY_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Erin Gentry Erin Gentry is a queer artist, educator, sound recorder, and DJ. She was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and lives and works in Austin, TX. Erin has been an active member of MASS Gallery, a collectively run art space in Austin, since 2011, serving as President from 2017 - 2019. She has a BA in Liberal Studies from St Edwards University, and a MA in Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562095331379-F1KIWUYOZ8WG9N318XPY/SHEPARD_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Lily Shepard Lily Shepard is an AFAA certified group fitness instructor and dancer/choreographer with over 20 years of experience.She spent 11 years in Las Vegas where she was a cast member of multiple productions on the Las Vegas strip and danced along Beyonce` at the Billboard Awards. In 2015 she relocated to Austin and created Body Bloom ATX to share her love of using dance, fitness and community as a means to empower. Body Bloom ATX aims to provide safe spaces for people of all backgrounds, races, sizes and orientations to enjoy themselves and each other while doing something good for their bodies and having fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562095373391-9WLBB8JT7307N7VC2DSS/margaretbechtold_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Margaret Williamson Bechtold Margaret Williamson Bechtold is a brand director and stylist living between Austin and New York and working all over. IN HER WORK AS A creative consultant, she helps brands of all sizes and types with their look, feel and follow-through. AS A STYLIST, she countS clients the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Sony and Girlfriend Collective as commercial collaborators, & Her editorial WORK has BEEN internationally published. In her spare time, she runs a concept shop in an abandoned cement factory in Austin, publishes a zine, and hosts a pop-up community with her pals in the desert. She writes a bit every now and then too. Margaret loves new projects and new friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1565290139789-O86OHKGU08E5RC7KL0ET/SANCHEZ_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Alejandra Sanchez / La Bruja Feminista I am a Mexican-American/Xicana intuitive energy healer, psychic, tarot reader, dream and drawing interpreter, pendulum reader, and still figuring out my mediumship abilities. My spiritual practice is combination of mexican curanderismo (healing), with modern tarot and clairaudience abilities. I grew up surrounded by many healers and spiritual practitioners, and I learned so much from just observing as a child as it was so heavily embedded in my culture. I started to use my spiritual healing gifts in 2015-2016 when I was mentored by a Shaman in the Ecuadorian Amazon. At the time, I was a peace corps volunteer living and working in Ecuador. I gained a lot of wisdom and insight about my shamanism abilities, and my past life spiritual roots in South America. As spiritual healer, I always seek to heal the energy around trauma, and provide others the necessary resources to continue on their healing journeys. My goals are to guide clients through difficult emotional, physical, and spiritual blockages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1563925262134-L9EF5QFB3NKDJ4PE7CGS/MARGARETGALTON_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Margaret Galton Margaret Galton is a Talent Buyer working on Festivals and Concerts at C3 Presents. In the past eleven years she has had the privilege to work on accounts such as: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater (Indoors and Outdoors), Live Out Festival, C3 Concerts in various Austin venues and all throughout Texas, Longhorn City Limits, Auckland City Limits, Sydney City Limits, Austin Food and Wine, Nickelodeon SlimeFest, and The White House Easter Egg Roll (Obama Administration). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1564522873090-PQPT3KTD74QYQQ5MY96F/DAWNOKORO_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Dawn Okoro Nigerian American artist Dawn Okoro lives and works in Austin, Texas. Her primary areas of focus are painting, video, and wearable art. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in fashion design from the University of Texas, and her law degree from Texas Southern University. Her desire to become an artist spawned from her love of fashion illustration, photography, and design. Her work has been featured in Forbes and Drawing Magazine. She has shown at the Texas Biennial, George Washington Carver Museum in Austin, New York University, and the MoCADA Museum in Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1564793951138-FW56A1268WFTLGGOTR87/DIALUNA_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Dia Luna Arts Dia Luna Arts is a one woman show created by Natalie Duran. Her craft has many faces but there is one thing that glues her aesthetic all together, nature. She ethically forages and wild crafts for the precious gifts that nature provides and preserves their beauty in her art. Her main goal is to raise money to give back to organizations that protect natural habitats from urban sprawl and from pollution. Pollution and habitat degradation effects minorities and marginalized people the most, so by supporting efforts to clean up this beautiful earth you are also helping poorer communities to live in a healthy environment. Dia Luna Arts is of the earth for the earth and all its beautiful inhabitants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566073794643-1YI20ZE6645YNAL7AQO6/TierraDENAE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Tierra Denae Tierra Denae is an artist, anatomy and movement Educator, yogi and the founder of The Disconnect Retreat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566074212650-M4WNKXQK13OP2MS34X3O/RASCOE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Rachel Rascoe Rachel Rascoe is a music and culture writer based in Austin, Texas. Her weekly column for The Austin Chronicle, Faster Than Sound, covers all things music news in the live music capital. Her work has been featured in Broadly and Austin Woman Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566756372234-8JRZHXM5EDGVD3EQTD0R/PICO_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Connie Pico Connie is a motion designer based in Austin, Texas who loves to bring visuals to spaces and performances that connect the audience to an overall immersive experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566756862298-WV0RV5FUHPRPX5FQI9W6/LOPEZ_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Samantha Rae Lopez BIO: Samantha Rae Lopez is a Texas-based comedian who spends way too much time posting Instagram Stories and telling her friends that they need to be having better sex. Samantha works in digital marketing as a content producer and strategist and now focuses her creative energy on telling her own personal stories via stand up. She's using humor as a coping mechanism as well as to smash the patriarchy. She can be seen doing stand up all over Austin and in her living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566871662565-6W7SJ6PN7ETYQUTDB97G/WILLA_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Willa Snow Willa Snow is an audio engineer based out of Austin. She works everything from touring Broadway shows, to classical orchestral concerts, to rock n roll shows in various technical and artistic roles. Her primary houses are Bass Concert Hall where she serves as a house board op and audio tech, runs FOH and monitors at Stubb’s BBQ, and monitor engineer at One World Theater. She enjoys digging into everything audio and music, and is the chapter head for SoundGirls in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567013865618-MJIV5B2Y0YWPOTZ01RKY/GREENE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Sydney Greene Sydney Greene is a creative based in Austin, Texas, where by day, she works in Texas politics, and by night, she's a freelance journalist. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Sydney moved to Austin in 2018 for a fellowship with the Texas Tribune, where she reported on immigration, healthcare, and politics. Currently, Sydney works for a political consulting firm in Austin, where she helps progressive candidates, clients, and organizations elevate and deliver their messages and ideas across Texas through print and digital communications. When she's not helping run campaigns, Sydney writes and reports on gender, culture, and lifestyle. Her writing has been featured in variety of publications including Texas Monthly, The Austin Chronicle, Teen Vogue, USA Today, and more. Sydney's personal and professional goals are to bring marginalized voices to the forefront of our policies and conversations through innovative storytelling and collaborative community action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567014426469-5BZKZF70TOO84SLAGERZ/HARRIS_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Taylor Harris Taylor Harris is an Austin-based audio engineer interning at Kenny Dorhams Backyard doing FOH. She has also worked with SXSW and the Skylark Lounge. She enjoys recording and producing in her spare time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567015053435-SCOLTF5E3T16J5FI4QN0/LIVY_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Livy Rodriguez-Behar Livy is a music supervisor and the founder of Dreamboat Music—a music supervision company based in Austin, TX. Throughout her career, she has worked on musical branding projects for companies such as Disney, Warby Parker, Tory Burch, Target, and TomTom. Additionally, she assisted on film and Television projects including Martin Scorsese's VINYL, Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City 2, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, and more. Her appreciation and education for music began at an early age as both a performer and a fan. She was in choir for 10 years, classically trained in vocal music and music theory. Her passion inspired her to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Business at Full Sail University. There, she earned the Valedictorian title of her graduating class. She went on to work for different tech companies conducting music copyright clearances, and metadata research. Currently, she dedicates her time to music supervising films at Dreamboat Music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567049099590-RGJ02O870JKS7AR9VXPN/OBASI_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Anita Obasi Anita Obasi is the founder and Principal of Unbounded Agency, a firm in Texas that specializes in creative strategy, curation, and event production. The agency takes special consideration towards projects that create visibility around traditionally underrepresented demographics, including LGBTQ and POC communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567656941084-T2EFR5EA7H9650Q5JMC2/ALIE_BF19.png 2019 Lineup - Alie Jackson Austin born Multimedia Artist, Alie Jackson, works with a range of mediums to explore how the digital landscape has shaped the perception of ourselves, others, and the world around us. Her background in Digital Design and Art Direction has helped influence the technology used to create her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1565717544146-2TOCHLIZB5ZJLAKD3S8D/femmefrontera_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Femme Frontera Our Story Femme Frontera was founded in 2016 by six female filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. We advocate for the amplification of films made by women from border regions across the globe. In 2017, Femme Frontera was featured in Variety Magazine, Remezcla, and Texas Monthly magazine, among others. The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase began as a celebration of films made by women filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region. Since then, we have expanded to include powerful short films from around the world, whose stories challenge perceptions about women, border communities, immigrants, people of color, the LBGTQ community, and other marginalized communities. For 2019, Femme Frontera will host its first annual Children’s Showcase as part of its additional programming. Femme Frontera is Angie Reza Tures, Ilana Lapid, Iliana Sosa, Jazmin Harvey, Jennifer Lucero, and Laura Theresa Bustillos Jáquez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567608262372-6XI1V7CH6Y6V91ZJUFGW/EVELYN_BF19.png 2019 Lineup - Evelyn From The Internets Evelyn Ngugi is a #MagicalBlackGirl who loves to tell insightful yet giggle-worthy stories online. Add “influencer" if you want to send her free lotion or something. She loves a good lotion. She is currently the writer and co-host of Say It Loud, a PBS Digital Studios show about Black histories and cultures, and uploads to her personal YouTube channel Evelyn From The Internets with varying consistency. From not-so-serious beauty tutorials and cultural critiques to humorous takes on somber current events, Evelyn From The Internets inspires and entertains her fans, including Beyonce who featured her Lemonade review on every stop of the Formation World Tour. Yes, that really happened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566761340018-PTMEIE9EYYI50E9NB12D/PLA_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Vanessa Pla Vanessa Pla is a director/cinematographer that works predominantly on film, shooting both 16mm and super8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566415047700-R0Q3VOXZ2TDIJUPTKDUS/BBARAYA_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - B. B. Araya B.B. Araya is a Texas-based filmmaker. After interning for director Richard Linklater, she created and directed the short film series, We Are, which was was picked up for distribution by Issa Rae Productions. Her latest short film, Yirga, had its world premiere at SXSW 2019 and she’s currently penning her feature film debut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1564546890642-KCG1VQW0GE1CGZ837MZB/JENNIKAYE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Jenni Kaye Jenni Kaye is a filmmaker and programmer in Austin, Texas. She's deeply passionate about facilitating accessible opportunities for indie filmmakers to create and present their work. She has over a decade of experience leading arts organizations in Florida, New York, Seattle, and Austin, including co-founding HIVE, Hyperreal Film Club, and new immersive film series Lifted Traces. Her own work spans short films and music videos to experimental visuals for musical performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092803316-LFMOVP5G463L730TERA3/WEEK_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Alison Week Alison Week is a freelance filmmaker whose work has taken her across the globe from the beaches of Portugal and Hawaii to glaciers in Alaska. Alison shoots news style video. directs and produces both narrative and documentary films. and lives in Austin, TX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092790115-FVSNRPLB9XZXZVCXR99H/WILLIAMS_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Tia Williams The path to greatness for a woman of color in life, as well as entertainment, isn’t always the easiest. Within the mind of Tiara “Tia” Williams her dreams aim to bring reality to both the silver screen and the male dominated entertainment industry. Born in Austin and raised in a small town right outside of the city of Houston, Tia followed in her mother’s footsteps and moved back to the weird city as an adult, for a change in pace. Tia found her creative niche while podcasting and combined her true love for writing and love for people of color to begin blogging about victims of Police brutality, and expanded her storytelling abilities with romantic short stories and screenplays. As a new filmmaker Tia’s goal is to use HER art to tell the stories that help not only entertain, but break down societal norms and highlight Black excellence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092922275-1H4Z5SVGTWX0ZKGUI02A/PANGER_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Samantha Panger Samantha Panger is a New York and Austin based cinematographer. Her work on short documentaries has traveled festival circuits in the US and abroad. Her work with Collective Sex on the short NAMES OF WOMEN has also been on tour around the country and in collegiate settings inspiring women and their partners to share their stories without judgement. She recently completed production on MERCY MISTRESS, a web series that explores the world of the kink community through their own stories with an emphasis on honoring marginalized voices. She is also working on a feature doc ALTERED that will explore genetic testing and how it can influence life decisions. Having been a camera technician in New York for nearly a decade, Samantha has a range of experience in formats including short, feature, television and web content. And in styles including narrative, documentary, and commercial. Samantha uses this experience in her work to play with light, expand her skill set, and create within the budget and creative ideas of directors she works with. Samantha was also selected as a Signal Fire Resident Artist in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092783479-YQG8Q15CR227WXVIOGFE/GUTIERREZ_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Priscilla Gutierrez Well this film is really a reflective piece into getting started as a female filmmaker of color, as well as exploring the Latina "look". My friend Tabitha and I reconnected at the last Boss Babes fest, and declared that this year we'd submit a short for the fest. This is the short that came of it, and that has a sprung up new friendships, opportunities, and overall confidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092790256-K3W0JTKVYKI8AE0594VH/EBERHARDT_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092921494-3SGFKYGG0197XOOL759X/SKINNER_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Samantha Skinner FemBeat is a production team that aims to connect people with candid, honest stories about self-identifying women and how they take up space. Using digital storytelling told through an intersectional lens, we strive to provide an uninterrupted platform that amplifies the voices of women and showcases the work they do in the community. Whether an artist or an organizer, an athlete or a musician, the women whose stories we tell represent what it means to be a feminist, and we are committed to providing a space for their perspectives to be seen and heard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092917467-NM1TEXUEHU2CZ1M2OQLD/GALANG_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092622849-CWCJR5S9A7F7DCIBCXHI/PRICE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Tamar Price Tamar Price is an independent producer committed to bringing unique stories to the forefront through collaborative creation. Through her marketing and digital coordinating position at notable alt-weekly, The Austin Chronicle, she forged connections with the arts community and gained valuable event management experience. In 2017 she developed and produced the “We Are” short film series with director B.B. Araya, which landed on Issa Rae Productions’ YouTube channel. In 2019, their following project, Yirga, premiered at SXSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092624312-TWL5FGFGF3MOAM5TFX2D/ANTONETTE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Antonette Masando Antonette Masando is a multimedia creative based in Austin, Texas. In 2016, while attending the University of Texas at Austin, she began her media work as a music intern at radio stations KUTX 98.9 and KMFA 89.5, and later, as a promotions assistant at iHeart Media, Inc. She then went on to host and executive produce the entertainment news show Austin Underground, honored as the “Show of the Year” and “Best Social Media” by Texas Student Television in May 2018. Today, Antonette continues to amplify Austin music culture through video production and podcasting. Her latest project, ‘Untapped’, focuses on the lives and experiences of up-and-coming artists of color across the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092801557-RW5R61E8G9EVITU0LAAL/TRAN_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Kim Tran Kim Tran is a current Michener fellow, writer, actor and filmmaker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562092808346-9B1686TFG2851XYZZMM1/DOTSE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Edem Dotse Edem Dotse is a musician and filmmaker in Austin,TX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562960366209-AXDM1U0M5NQNMEE5S6Y0/SARAHFOHL_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Sarah Fohl Sarah Fohl is a writer, director, producer, and international public health professional with over 13 years of experience working in development, women’s health, and multimedia production. While her professional work has largely included research and evaluation for designing and implementing projects focused on sexual and reproductive health, gender issues, and youth advocacy, her passion has always been focused around the power of visual storytelling. Originally from Tennessee, Sarah has lived in and visited some of the most inspiring cities like Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, DC, Dakar, and Ouagadougou, before moving to Austin in 2017. She is currently an independent consultant supporting multimedia projects for non-profit organizations, a freelance producer and director, and is a co-founder of The Fem House ATX, a collective for women and non-binary filmmakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1562960616816-PYIC5VUZCJFTAABRZ7FJ/SARAHJONES_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Sarah Jones Sarah Jones is a lady looking to experience the fullness of life. She grew up in East Aurora, NY, making videos in her backyard with friends and editing them at the kitchen table. In 2015, Sarah graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Cinema Art + Science, where she focused her studies in digital and film cinematography. Frustrated with the challenges that filmmakers face while trying to break into the industry, Sarah spent the summer of 2016 in Yellowstone National Park to rediscover herself, and along the way fell in love with the mountains. She then served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at MAPS Media Institute in Hamilton, MT, a nationally award winning creative development program for high school students interested in learning about filmmaking, graphic design, music production, computer technology, and entrepreneurship. In the fall of 2018, Sarah moved to Austin to continue her growth as a cinematographer and a filmmaker. She has kept busy shooting short films, crewing in camera department, and co-founding the Fem House ATX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1563926820554-DZVHUMGKPK06CHA24M2F/MEGHANROSS_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Meghan Ross Meghan Ross is a writer, producer, and comedian from New York, now living in Austin with her dog, Dreidel. She recently directed, produced, and wrote her first short film, An Uncomfortable Woman, featuring an all-women & POC cast & crew. She's also the host of the all-women late night show, That Time of the Month, and her writing has appeared in Broadly, Reductress, The Toast, and IFC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1564794211051-LF3PM8BXY1428F0XK554/VALCIN_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Deborah Valcin Deborah is a Haitian filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Her passion for her home country of Haiti drives her to bring to light unique stories centered around the Haitian narrative and the Haitian Diaspora. Her latest short film, Le 27 Juillet, premiered at Babes Fest last year, and went on to two other festivals. She is currently working on another short film that will be filmed entirely in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1565290351099-969CWQEVYN9D9DUKQ4FE/BUSTILLOS_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Laura Bustillos Laura Bustillos Jáquez is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from the border of Mexico and the United States. As a transnational woman of color, she focuses on telling stories about immigration and social reconstruction movements within the U.S.-Mexico border, Africa, the Caribbean, and the world. Laura graduated with a BA in Visual Journalism and a special recognition from Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. She then obtained a David Lynch MA in Film at Maharishi University in 2015. She is currently based in New York City and Ciudad Juarez-El Paso (U.S.-Mexico Border). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566238678048-GYG5WWKAVB0GW4EHJ0DX/ramirez_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Sandra Paola López Ramírez Sandra Paola López Ramírez (BFA, EdM) is a latinoamericana dancemaker, improviser and performance activist. Her community-based interdisciplinary work plays with gender, identity, and sociality, and it has taken her through the US, Colombia, Brazil, Cyprus, France, Germany, Denmark, Canada and Mexico. Since moving to the United States from her native Colombia in 2004, she has developed her practice to integrate her creative process and her community organizing efforts. Driven by her commitment to social transformation, Sandra Paola co-founded and directs the Institute for Improvisation and Social Action (ImprovISA) – an organization empowering diverse populations to develop through performance and improvisation in the U.S.-Mexico border. She is currently dance faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and is completing her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a Performance Creation concentration at Goddard College. **Photo Credit: Laura Bustillos Jáquez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566238672877-9XU08Q97PT7D72UHKMHF/RODRIGUEZ_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Xochitl Rodriguez Xochitl Rodriguez received her BFA from UT-El Paso. In 2009, she accepted an invitation from Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck and artist Kama Wangdi to serve as Bhutan’s first artist in residence. For sixteen months, she was the only visitor to live adjacent to the country’s government housing complex. She carried out youth-driven forum theater and public art projects across the country. In 2011, Xochitl moved to Kansas City for a residency with the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project. In 2012, family called Xochitl home and in 2013 she co-founded the Caldo Collective, a 501c3 non-profit. In 2016, her work was seen around the world when she organized 52 women from both sides of the border to braid their hair together, forming a human chain across the international boundary between El Paso/Cd. Juarez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566238681959-NZANSN1OB83LM9QS0ZO7/REZATURES_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Angie Reza Tures Angie Reza Tures has worked in independent film since 2003 after graduating from the University of San Francisco with a B.A. in Media Studies and minor in Music. For twelve years, she worked as a producer, director, and editor in the Bay Area mentoring under Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning documentary filmmakers. Her awards in filmmaking include a 2012 Best Film made by an Adult at the San Francisco WritersCorps Poetry Projection Project Film Festival and a selection as semi-finalist for Best Art Short Film at the 2016 EQUUS Film Festival in New York City. Since 2011, Angie has lived and worked in El Paso serving as the Executive Director of Femme Frontera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566759612740-R39BCGX8HHIXD5LM6VK8/COSETTE_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Cydney Cosette Cydney Cosette is a photographer with an interest in power and balance dynamics within compositions. She seeks to explore the unexpected aesthetics of forms by removing or reassigning their functions. This curiosity has led her into the field of art direction, as well as driven her photographic pursuits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566759608950-RYBBSH0KAB2PM2KWBD3M/URZULKA_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - URZULKA Urzulka is a multi-disciplinary artist primarily focusing on the visual arts of photography and filmmaking. She is inspired by visceral observations and trying to capture their physical feeling in non-touch-based art. Contemplation and self-exploration are the center of most of her created imagery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566759881099-ZAXH3P7GTX9QULGHONTP/FUNMI_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Funmi Ogunro Funmi Ogunro is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and photographer, from Austin, Texas. Funmi is a Producer for PBS, KLRU-TV. Most recently she produced her online comedy web series, Nneka The Uber Driver, an official selection of the Women of the Lens 2017 Film Festival in London, England. Her short film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Naija Edition toured the United States and premiered at the 2016 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is the creator of Art is Cool, a multi service organization specializing in photography, videography, documentary films. In addition to producing, Funmi Ogunro served as the host of Juneteenth Jamboree, a PBS production dedicated to the discussion of Texas Black History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566760474141-C5FMOTQ9KPFHMJXR58YZ/GARDNER_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Jessica Gardner Jessica Gardner is an Austin filmmaker. She has worked with Erica Nix on several projects beginning with a web series in 2011 entitled, "Workout with Erica Nix." Since then she directed the video for and performed in "A Full Body Workout with Erica Nix," a multimedia performance in Outsiderfest 2018 and created video and performed in "This is Not a Cult" recently at The Austin Motel. She has directed music videos for emo puppet band Fragile Rock and kids band Hey Lolly and was recently commissioned to produce a documentary following artist/musician Amanda Palmer, still in development. She created a number of documentaries and narrative films and especially enjoys amplifying queer and feminist voices through film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1566761486683-UZXOP4RJWAPK9OPJSA9L/NATION_BF2019.png 2019 Lineup - Sarah Nation Sarah Nation is a filmmaker, curator and artist living and working in Austin, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1567612180616-Y6ILVPNFL0S9WQP6DTTL/ASHA_BF19.png 2019 Lineup - Asha Bynum Asha is a Memphis-born, Texas-raised, Austin-based filmmaker and artist. After falling in love with film and film theory at Vanderbilt University, Asha moved to Austin, Texas where she interned for Dos Mundos Creative as a video editor. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1661190333870-6OMJM15N9JYRYFO14LJI/thefrontfest2022ARTIST-CHEEKYCHAINS-2.png 2022 Lineup https://thefrontfest.com/2023-lineup daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000895167-SQR1XB9GCFREVKLNMRCK/thefrontfestival2023_individual-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Megz Kelli, little trumpet follows Javon, a 9-year-old kid growing up in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, dreaming of playing the trumpet in the marching band like his older brother while moving through grief and navigating the precarious social terrain of his neighborhood. ✹ littletrumpetfilm.com ✹ @kisstheteam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435288152-FPMXP9EZJF6EG585N8AE/thefrontfestival_2023--1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Tracy Droz Tragos, Plan C follows a controversial visionary and a grassroots network's fight to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade. ✹ plancmovie.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435293745-QM8ULB7OLJIXNWHH8EKJ/thefrontfestival2023_artofforgetting-3.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Caroline Rose's recently-released album, The Art of Forgetting, is their most dynamic and raw work yet. Via a series of time-warped loops, the album-turned-sonic-film weaves together a story of Caroline navigating through a transformative heartbreak. Today, the short—directed by Caroline Rose and Sam Bennett—has won Best Music Video at Hollywood Shortsfest, is a semi-finalist at Cannes Indie Shorts Awards and Venezia Shorts Italy, and has been selected for HollyShorts Film Festival and several others worldwide. ✹ @carolinerosemuzak ✹ @samuelaaronbennett ✹ carolinerosemusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219983313-VWA00FK1YU21BTK6V1V1/thefrontfestival_2023films-9.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Liz Moskowitz, Down Home follows a sleep-away camp in Elgin, Texas that gives adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to escape societal barriers, while having a good ol' time dancing, loving and feeling free. ✹ @lizmoskowitz ✹ lizmoskowitz.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219977162-68O6LYISJ3XHFI9V72A7/thefrontfestival_2023films-12.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out In Here To Make Friends, an anxious, aging millennial, Arab-American Austin transplant goes on a mission to find the platonic love of her life. After realizing she’s never had one lasting female friend, she will have to figure out how to befriend herself first. ✹ @meghanrross ✹ Here To Make Friends https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219996865-6LF47Y0JCCFLGL5A6UQG/thefrontfestival_2023films-5.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Deborah Valcin, Catharsis follows Deborah as she goes against her Inner Voice and expresses her rage in a very dangerous way. The story follows her cathartic decision to release the one emotion Black women are constantly told to suppress. ✹ @deborahvalcin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219991518-N21YBL7P7YWV01HGB7EU/thefrontfestival_2023films-8.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out While on an odyssey to find her favorite childhood chicken fingers, Karen grapples with loss in a world that refuses to stand still. From Zoe Dahmen, Chicken Fingers is whimsical and absurd, with a sneaky emotional punch, suggesting that although life is ephemeral, it is also sweet. Like ice cream on a hot day. ✹ @zoedahmen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219968922-D4KQRAZ1LGLWYOQPUMEV/thefrontfestival_2023films-13.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Alisha Banks, Mannequins depicts a group of actors showing up to an audition, only to find out they've been hoodwinked into being extras on a big budget film. ✹ alishabanks.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219939107-LW20GJ9SRY5YHM2LJM5O/thefrontfestival_2023films-20.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Julia Barbosa Landois, Shell Composite uses video, photos, animation, and intimate family moments to explore humans' relationship to non-human life, the built environment, and what’s left to future generations. “Shell composite” refers to sidewalks in the artist’s mid-20th-century neighborhood that incorporate oyster shells dredged from Galveston Bay, a common practice until banned in the 1970s due to environmental impacts. Water footage was captured at Armand Bayou, one of the last non-channelized bayous left in the region. ✹ @jblandois ✹ julialandois.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219927410-JK4OHVQP9VCL5ODZJ870/thefrontfestival_2023films-21.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Julia Barbosa Landois, Sidesteps (Purslane) contemplates a common native plant as a symbol of resilience in the face of environmental and familial trauma. This video poem honors the oft-overlooked just under our feet with cut paper animation, narration, and amateur piano. ✹ @jblandois ✹ julialandois.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219958467-DZCD8G1V2609V9U6OBAK/thefrontfestival_2023films-16.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out While witnessing the economic and social changes ushered in by the pandemic, MILEZ depicts eight Early Era Collective dancers inspecting the systems by which we abide, and the sameness required of average people to operate within those systems. Directed by Stephanie Patrick, and featuring Austin-based hip-hop duet Magna Carda, our artists must decide whether to stay within the boxes that confine them or break free. ✹ @earlyeracollective ✹ stephaniepatrick.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219946083-TVWQYM0FVCXEHKTXVFUS/thefrontfestival_2023films-17.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Millie Heckler, Pink Booth Confessions grapples with the complexity of being sexual human beings. We bring voice to secrets of shame through our music, dance and communion. We think that if maybe we spent more energy giving voice to our secrets, the weight our secrets carry might turn into something else. Honoring the confusing nature of trauma, we are reminded that answers lie in the effort of continuation and in the practice of speaking up to ourselves and to each other, in any way we can. ✹ millieheckler.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1cbaf84f-ec50-4f1e-a2b2-59659068a939/thefrontfestival2023_alexishunter-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Alexis Hunter, Attack of the 300 lb Woman! is part of multidisciplinary artist Alexis Hunter's current series, HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH??!!. HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH??!! challenges the policing of women’s bodies under the patriarchy and the misogynistic history of the world. This series is informed by several factors, one of them being the artist's life-long insecurities about her body and how she sees that experience intersecting with social constructs like western beauty standards and fatphobia. ✹ @m00n_daddy ✹ alexishunter.work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692220008443-TYQL3HOEJ2UW5D72XU4N/thefrontfestival_2023films-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Victoria, A dreamer's discourse is a short film laid out in three acts; falling in love, birth, and heartbreak. Like a star in a silent film, Victoria set out to film without a script, letting their body language and set design do the talking. The audio overlaid, is in fact, a 2.5 hour conversation (condensed to 5 minutes) of Vic and their dear friend, Sheila discussing love and its potential. ✹ @onlinebedroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000836781-NX1DYDDL5NIBP7G6H0XR/thefrontfestival2023_individual-4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Grace Sorensen (she/her) is one of the fastest-rising independent R&B artists in the Austin. Dubbed "Austin's Wonderkid" by the media, in her young career she has already landed features on both projects by Empire Record's BLK ODYSSY, opened for Diana Ross and surpassed 500k streams on her single "Digits.” ✹ @realgraces ✹ gracesorensen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/915facb6-11a7-452d-9e69-9fbf54666b39/thefrontfestival2023_babiboi-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Dorian Delafuente, a.k.a. Babiboi, is an Austin-based, San Antonio-raised rapper, artist, and Ballroom commentator for ballroom collective House of Lepore. ✹ @babiboibitch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691017221177-LAIGE6KXCXPS5KLEVBMT/thefrontfestival2023_southwestsisters-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Whitney Screwston (she/her) is a Salvadorian American disc jockey who has broken into the NYC scene thanks to her musical taste and talent. This Texas bred Brooklyn-based southern shawty uses an open format style to effortlessly flow between dembow, dancehall, amapiano, ballroom, R&B and hip hop to get the audience moving. Her DJ sets prioritize women in music hoping to honor their legacies and their contributions by cultivating community at her events. ✹ @whitneyscrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435252991-3LI352LOONH9YAB8CVMC/thefrontfestival_2023--4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Sussie Ramirez (she/her) better known as Suxxy Puxxy is a promoter, manager and DJ from Monterrey, Nuevo León. Suxxy (like her friends call her) started working in the underground party scene in Monterrey. Helped produce events with local artist focused in bringing international talent in town. That's how she met Peligrosa the Austin multidisciplinary Latin collective. She started to work with them by planning a tour around California in summer 2018 and then working in a series of releases for Discos Peligrosa which lead her to leave her hometown and move to Texas. Peligrosa members took her hand to start a new journey of her life which was the beginning of her Djing. Between a mix of her melancholy of missing home and her passion for reggaeton, she started to throw Perreo parties, but what really set her aside was her way of mixing. After the pandemic, she officially launched Perreo Club, an inclusive Latinx party based in Texas celebrating the culture of Reggaeton & Perreo. ✹ @suxxypuxxy ✹ @perreo.club ✹ perreoclub.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1690918961309-NM0OMUUDJMNTCVZXHKH1/perreoclub_2023-3.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Poniboy is a Perreo Club DJ and nightlife artist, living and working in Austin, Texas. ✹ @poniboyyy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7c6ecd3a-31f1-4366-ba59-cbeea322e847/thefrontfestival2023_brandix-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Brandix is a queer Mexican-American vocalist and musician raised along the Texas-Mexico border. She performs an extensive setlist of diverse genres ranging from Nu-Metal to Neo-Soul to Mariachi. She creates genre-bending experimental music centered around themes of healing, self-exploration, and planet Earth. ✹ @brandix.mp3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000833666-KZI6VG6JIAGCM9Q42WPE/thefrontfestival2023_individual-6.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Austin-based DJ Dreamchild (she/her) was raised by funk, jazz, and soul music, listening nonstop to artists like Earth, Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder. While growing up in Los Angeles, she filled her library with hip-hop, rock, reggae, and electronic music, inspired by the city's skate, surf, and rave cultures. She blends these influences together in energetic, bass-heavy sets that make listeners feel good and groove. ✹ @dreamchildmixes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000833335-8Z3RIJ0EO80UPR8O6TD5/thefrontfestival2023_individual-7.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Clancy Jones (she/her) is interested in the application of sound and movement to explore the poetics and cultural parallels of dance culture as a revolutionary act of joy. Her dj work is akin to the work of translation. Often focused on the communicative inputs and outputs between mechanical languages and our human hardwares. She was born in Cali, Colombia, raised in Queens, New York and is currently based in Austin, Texas. Her sound reflects the intersections of her placehood in these landscapes and her identity as an immigrant woman. ✹ @forty1flip https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000974993-UF9QO8K9E80ZLNN8NQZB/thefrontfestival2023_individual-8.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Nicole Cardoza (she/her) is a magician and a storyteller. She’s collaborated with brands including Google, Patreon, and Soho House. She’s toured the country and performed at universities, exclusive venues, for corporations and private events. She’s also the founder of Reclamation Ventures, a venture studio creating and incubating ideas for our collective wellbeing. It also manages the Reclamation Ventures Fund, which provides philanthropic and early-stage investments in individuals and organizations making wellness more accessible. Over the past two years, it has granted over $500,000 in direct support to marginalized wellness leaders. Nicole’s first published book, Mindful Moves, a mindfulness book for children, was published in Spring 2021. ✹ @blackgirlmagician on IG, TikTok and YouTube ✹ blackgirlmagician.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435226547-Q9XONXBL0WPO0PPSHL4O/thefrontfestival2023_artshows-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out HOT, TEXAS SUMMER is a testament to the multidisciplinary and multidimensional roots of Texas art. Curated by Future Front for The Front Festival 2023, this temporary collection features vibrant pieces by Chantal Lesley, Steph Granillo, Tumi Adeleye, Tanya Zal, Darcie Book, Calder Kamin and Ani Bradberry on The LINE Austin’s lobby and second floor. ✹ futurefronttexas.org/linehotel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691017248746-3WFCQM759A0D9JH2JC7I/thefrontfestival2023_southwestsisters-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out January is a Salvadorian-American performing artist and classically trained dancer from Houston, Texas that has been performing in drag for over 8 years in NYC. Using drag, dance, and music to compel her audience through storytelling she provides electrifying and high-energy performances. Through her drag showcases in 2019, digital livestreams in 2020, and upcoming events in 2023, January continues her collaborative efforts in the arts. She aims to bring attention to social issues affecting marginalized communities, including advocating for HIV testing. Each showcase centers and honors the work of LGBTQIA and BIPOC local drag queens, designers and multidisciplinary artists. ✹ @mizzzjanuary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435226663-W6H9CS51S5XO45N9UALZ/thefrontfestival2023_artshows-4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Throughout the festival, enjoy a textured installation in The LINE Hotel Austin, as an exploration of maximalism and queer joy, thanks to our collaboration with Dallas-based artist Molly Sydnor. ✹ futurefronttexas.org/linehotel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000975174-1WNH2HS33PY2MUQU4HCK/thefrontfestival2023_individual-5.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Simone Raquel Alexander (she/her) is a freelance artist, arts administrator, and arts advocate working in the nonprofit field and theatre community. She serves as Producing Artistic Director and Founder of New Manifest Theatre Company, where she has brought together an ensemble of interdisciplinary artists. Simone serves as the Senior Manager of Engagement and Accessibility at The Contemporary Austin Museum and the Development Director of Ground Floor Theatre. Simone Alexander’s artistic vision is dedicated to sharing the art of the people of today through storytelling from a diversity of uniquely specific voices, styles, and perspectives. Simone’s practice centers harm reduction tools and collective agreements as a funnel to tackle challenging themes and hold space for creativity and collaboration to thrive. ✹ @simoneraquelalexander ✹ simoneraquelalexander.blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691616781692-MJ0NG1UNF76H0X6CVS6V/thefrontfestival_music2023-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Viva Vidalia is a Houston-based Drag performer of nearly 15 years. She began her career in Long Island, NY performing whenever and wherever she could and soon started performing regularly all throughout New York City. She is known for her high energy performances, her colorful costumes and wicked sense of humor whilst hosting. In 2018, Viva began a small costume design business that very quickly grew. Her costumes have been seen on TV shows such as RuPauls Drag Race, Dragula, Camp Wannakiki and Dragnificnet as well as Drag and Burlesque performers all over the world. Currently you can find Viva Vidalia performing and designing costume all through Houston TX as well as Austin, San Antonio and New York City. ✹ @vivavidalia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691683591064-H52J6A785XAMO256BOX3/thefrontfestival2023_miriamconner-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Miriam Conner (she/her) has curated and organized art and experiences for over a decade. She has been in Austin for 31 years by way of New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from St. Stephens Episcopal High School, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. After college, Miriam came home to Austin and began managing the Pine Street Station (an Artist warehouse and gallery) for two years, and has since planned countless art shows, in addition to co-founding Topology Art Warehouse. She has also worked with SXSW, Art Outside, Forklift Danceworks, Six Square – Austin’s Black Cultural District, the City of Austin, and more. She is the founder of Creative Policy, a firm recognized for its community-focused strategy that bridges policy-making and cultural engagement to achieve meaningful systems change. Additionally, she holds positions on the boards of Preservation Austin, Big Medium, and Greater Austin Neighborhoods, and she has previously served as a commissioner on the City of Austin's African American Quality of Life Commission. She has been creating in the Austin Art community since 2008. ✹ @mconner512 ✹ creativepolicy.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7b61e6e8-4dfa-42f9-a4f7-96981d1266e4/thefrontfestival2023_speakers-3.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Liz Moskowitz (she/her) is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY she has lived in Austin, Texas for over fifteen years. Her work aims to honor the dignity and nuance of people, places, and issues. She approaches each individual and community that she photographs with intentionality and an open-mind. Her films have won the Judge’s Choice Winner at the SXSW Faces of Austin Film Premiere, been a Vimeo Staff Pick, broadcast on the PBS "Frame of Mind" series, and shown at Woodstock Film Festival, AFI Fest, Dallas International Film Festival, and Sedona International Film Festival. ✹ @lizmoskowitz ✹ lizmoskowitz.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/8a144945-89ef-40f2-a940-b1cc69659a38/thefrontfestival2023_speakers-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Jay (they/them) is a drag king from Laredo, Texas who has lived in Austin for over 15 years. Their drag name “Bobby Pudrido” is an ode to Bobby Pulido, a Tejano artists who was a staple of their childhood. They are a member of Austin’s only drag king and gender diverse troupe, the Boyz of Austin. They have quickly established themself as a drag king and show host in Austin as the co-creator and producer of Brokeback Cantina, a monthly drag king revue showcasing Latine drag kings, as well as a monthly show, Drag Lab. Jay discovered their love for drag at the tender age of 32. Drag has been a way for them to explore their gender identity as a trans non-binary person and their culture as a person who grew up on the US-Mexico border. Their creative passion and favorite part of doing drag is creating spaces where queer Latine folks can feel seen and represented. ✹ @bobbypudrido https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/c28acf00-a575-48c1-b516-2d93dc64ad64/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-9.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Sister Palm (she/her) Sister Palm offers traditional and astrological palm readings based on ten years of worldwide research. ✹ @sisterpalm ✹ sisterpalm.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/3274b7e8-44ab-4344-b298-b9ee76551a6c/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-8.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out By Chef Cibelli, LLC is a multifaceted, LGBTQ-owned culinary experience-driven company specializing in all kinds of fun stuff. ✹ @chefcibelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/e873fc5c-645b-4038-b0c3-e8d91f27b580/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-6.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Women-owned, Calibrate Wellness offers gourmet, chef-crafted and legal cannabis products for your lifestyle. ✹ @shopcalibrate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7617566f-bec6-4ff0-ac83-ff3d8b13e88e/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out The GoGo Yum Yum is a super cute, women-owned ice cream truck serving up classic ice cream novelties as well as vegan and dairy-free options. ✹ @gogoyumyumtruck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/95884f43-f988-4f48-b65b-0f40841f41b6/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Women-owned, Bakery Siena brings joy and smiles to people’s faces through cookies and Malaysian sweet cakes. ✹ @bakerysiena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000895167-SQR1XB9GCFREVKLNMRCK/thefrontfestival2023_individual-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Megz Kelli, little trumpet follows Javon, a 9-year-old kid growing up in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, dreaming of playing the trumpet in the marching band like his older brother while moving through grief and navigating the precarious social terrain of his neighborhood. ✹ littletrumpetfilm.com ✹ @kisstheteam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435288152-FPMXP9EZJF6EG585N8AE/thefrontfestival_2023--1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Tracy Droz Tragos, Plan C follows a controversial visionary and a grassroots network's fight to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade. ✹ plancmovie.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435293745-QM8ULB7OLJIXNWHH8EKJ/thefrontfestival2023_artofforgetting-3.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Caroline Rose's recently-released album, The Art of Forgetting, is their most dynamic and raw work yet. Via a series of time-warped loops, the album-turned-sonic-film weaves together a story of Caroline navigating through a transformative heartbreak. Today, the short—directed by Caroline Rose and Sam Bennett—has won Best Music Video at Hollywood Shortsfest, is a semi-finalist at Cannes Indie Shorts Awards and Venezia Shorts Italy, and has been selected for HollyShorts Film Festival and several others worldwide. ✹ @carolinerosemuzak ✹ @samuelaaronbennett ✹ carolinerosemusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219983313-VWA00FK1YU21BTK6V1V1/thefrontfestival_2023films-9.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Liz Moskowitz, Down Home follows a sleep-away camp in Elgin, Texas that gives adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to escape societal barriers, while having a good ol' time dancing, loving and feeling free. ✹ @lizmoskowitz ✹ lizmoskowitz.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219977162-68O6LYISJ3XHFI9V72A7/thefrontfestival_2023films-12.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out In Here To Make Friends, an anxious, aging millennial, Arab-American Austin transplant goes on a mission to find the platonic love of her life. After realizing she’s never had one lasting female friend, she will have to figure out how to befriend herself first. ✹ @meghanrross ✹ Here To Make Friends https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219996865-6LF47Y0JCCFLGL5A6UQG/thefrontfestival_2023films-5.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Deborah Valcin, Catharsis follows Deborah as she goes against her Inner Voice and expresses her rage in a very dangerous way. The story follows her cathartic decision to release the one emotion Black women are constantly told to suppress. ✹ @deborahvalcin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219991518-N21YBL7P7YWV01HGB7EU/thefrontfestival_2023films-8.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out While on an odyssey to find her favorite childhood chicken fingers, Karen grapples with loss in a world that refuses to stand still. From Zoe Dahmen, Chicken Fingers is whimsical and absurd, with a sneaky emotional punch, suggesting that although life is ephemeral, it is also sweet. Like ice cream on a hot day. ✹ @zoedahmen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219968922-D4KQRAZ1LGLWYOQPUMEV/thefrontfestival_2023films-13.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Alisha Banks, Mannequins depicts a group of actors showing up to an audition, only to find out they've been hoodwinked into being extras on a big budget film. ✹ alishabanks.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219939107-LW20GJ9SRY5YHM2LJM5O/thefrontfestival_2023films-20.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Julia Barbosa Landois, Shell Composite uses video, photos, animation, and intimate family moments to explore humans' relationship to non-human life, the built environment, and what’s left to future generations. “Shell composite” refers to sidewalks in the artist’s mid-20th-century neighborhood that incorporate oyster shells dredged from Galveston Bay, a common practice until banned in the 1970s due to environmental impacts. Water footage was captured at Armand Bayou, one of the last non-channelized bayous left in the region. ✹ @jblandois ✹ julialandois.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219927410-JK4OHVQP9VCL5ODZJ870/thefrontfestival_2023films-21.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Julia Barbosa Landois, Sidesteps (Purslane) contemplates a common native plant as a symbol of resilience in the face of environmental and familial trauma. This video poem honors the oft-overlooked just under our feet with cut paper animation, narration, and amateur piano. ✹ @jblandois ✹ julialandois.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219958467-DZCD8G1V2609V9U6OBAK/thefrontfestival_2023films-16.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out While witnessing the economic and social changes ushered in by the pandemic, MILEZ depicts eight Early Era Collective dancers inspecting the systems by which we abide, and the sameness required of average people to operate within those systems. Directed by Stephanie Patrick, and featuring Austin-based hip-hop duet Magna Carda, our artists must decide whether to stay within the boxes that confine them or break free. ✹ @earlyeracollective ✹ stephaniepatrick.me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692219946083-TVWQYM0FVCXEHKTXVFUS/thefrontfestival_2023films-17.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Millie Heckler, Pink Booth Confessions grapples with the complexity of being sexual human beings. We bring voice to secrets of shame through our music, dance and communion. We think that if maybe we spent more energy giving voice to our secrets, the weight our secrets carry might turn into something else. Honoring the confusing nature of trauma, we are reminded that answers lie in the effort of continuation and in the practice of speaking up to ourselves and to each other, in any way we can. ✹ millieheckler.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1cbaf84f-ec50-4f1e-a2b2-59659068a939/thefrontfestival2023_alexishunter-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Alexis Hunter, Attack of the 300 lb Woman! is part of multidisciplinary artist Alexis Hunter's current series, HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH??!!. HAVEN’T I GIVEN ENOUGH??!! challenges the policing of women’s bodies under the patriarchy and the misogynistic history of the world. This series is informed by several factors, one of them being the artist's life-long insecurities about her body and how she sees that experience intersecting with social constructs like western beauty standards and fatphobia. ✹ @m00n_daddy ✹ alexishunter.work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1692220008443-TYQL3HOEJ2UW5D72XU4N/thefrontfestival_2023films-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out From Victoria, A dreamer's discourse is a short film laid out in three acts; falling in love, birth, and heartbreak. Like a star in a silent film, Victoria set out to film without a script, letting their body language and set design do the talking. The audio overlaid, is in fact, a 2.5 hour conversation (condensed to 5 minutes) of Vic and their dear friend, Sheila discussing love and its potential. ✹ @onlinebedroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000836781-NX1DYDDL5NIBP7G6H0XR/thefrontfestival2023_individual-4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Grace Sorensen (she/her) is one of the fastest-rising independent R&B artists in the Austin. Dubbed "Austin's Wonderkid" by the media, in her young career she has already landed features on both projects by Empire Record's BLK ODYSSY, opened for Diana Ross and surpassed 500k streams on her single "Digits.” ✹ @realgraces ✹ gracesorensen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/915facb6-11a7-452d-9e69-9fbf54666b39/thefrontfestival2023_babiboi-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Dorian Delafuente, a.k.a. Babiboi, is an Austin-based, San Antonio-raised rapper, artist, and Ballroom commentator for ballroom collective House of Lepore. ✹ @babiboibitch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691017221177-LAIGE6KXCXPS5KLEVBMT/thefrontfestival2023_southwestsisters-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Whitney Screwston (she/her) is a Salvadorian American disc jockey who has broken into the NYC scene thanks to her musical taste and talent. This Texas bred Brooklyn-based southern shawty uses an open format style to effortlessly flow between dembow, dancehall, amapiano, ballroom, R&B and hip hop to get the audience moving. Her DJ sets prioritize women in music hoping to honor their legacies and their contributions by cultivating community at her events. ✹ @whitneyscrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435252991-3LI352LOONH9YAB8CVMC/thefrontfestival_2023--4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Sussie Ramirez (she/her) better known as Suxxy Puxxy is a promoter, manager and DJ from Monterrey, Nuevo León. Suxxy (like her friends call her) started working in the underground party scene in Monterrey. Helped produce events with local artist focused in bringing international talent in town. That's how she met Peligrosa the Austin multidisciplinary Latin collective. She started to work with them by planning a tour around California in summer 2018 and then working in a series of releases for Discos Peligrosa which lead her to leave her hometown and move to Texas. Peligrosa members took her hand to start a new journey of her life which was the beginning of her Djing. Between a mix of her melancholy of missing home and her passion for reggaeton, she started to throw Perreo parties, but what really set her aside was her way of mixing. After the pandemic, she officially launched Perreo Club, an inclusive Latinx party based in Texas celebrating the culture of Reggaeton & Perreo. ✹ @suxxypuxxy ✹ @perreo.club ✹ perreoclub.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1690918961309-NM0OMUUDJMNTCVZXHKH1/perreoclub_2023-3.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Poniboy is a Perreo Club DJ and nightlife artist, living and working in Austin, Texas. ✹ @poniboyyy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7c6ecd3a-31f1-4366-ba59-cbeea322e847/thefrontfestival2023_brandix-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Brandix is a queer Mexican-American vocalist and musician raised along the Texas-Mexico border. She performs an extensive setlist of diverse genres ranging from Nu-Metal to Neo-Soul to Mariachi. She creates genre-bending experimental music centered around themes of healing, self-exploration, and planet Earth. ✹ @brandix.mp3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000833666-KZI6VG6JIAGCM9Q42WPE/thefrontfestival2023_individual-6.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Austin-based DJ Dreamchild (she/her) was raised by funk, jazz, and soul music, listening nonstop to artists like Earth, Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder. While growing up in Los Angeles, she filled her library with hip-hop, rock, reggae, and electronic music, inspired by the city's skate, surf, and rave cultures. She blends these influences together in energetic, bass-heavy sets that make listeners feel good and groove. ✹ @dreamchildmixes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000833335-8Z3RIJ0EO80UPR8O6TD5/thefrontfestival2023_individual-7.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Clancy Jones (she/her) is interested in the application of sound and movement to explore the poetics and cultural parallels of dance culture as a revolutionary act of joy. Her dj work is akin to the work of translation. Often focused on the communicative inputs and outputs between mechanical languages and our human hardwares. She was born in Cali, Colombia, raised in Queens, New York and is currently based in Austin, Texas. Her sound reflects the intersections of her placehood in these landscapes and her identity as an immigrant woman. ✹ @forty1flip https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000974993-UF9QO8K9E80ZLNN8NQZB/thefrontfestival2023_individual-8.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Nicole Cardoza (she/her) is a magician and a storyteller. She’s collaborated with brands including Google, Patreon, and Soho House. She’s toured the country and performed at universities, exclusive venues, for corporations and private events. She’s also the founder of Reclamation Ventures, a venture studio creating and incubating ideas for our collective wellbeing. It also manages the Reclamation Ventures Fund, which provides philanthropic and early-stage investments in individuals and organizations making wellness more accessible. Over the past two years, it has granted over $500,000 in direct support to marginalized wellness leaders. Nicole’s first published book, Mindful Moves, a mindfulness book for children, was published in Spring 2021. ✹ @blackgirlmagician on IG, TikTok and YouTube ✹ blackgirlmagician.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435226547-Q9XONXBL0WPO0PPSHL4O/thefrontfestival2023_artshows-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out HOT, TEXAS SUMMER is a testament to the multidisciplinary and multidimensional roots of Texas art. Curated by Future Front for The Front Festival 2023, this temporary collection features vibrant pieces by Chantal Lesley, Steph Granillo, Tumi Adeleye, Tanya Zal, Darcie Book, Calder Kamin and Ani Bradberry on The LINE Austin’s lobby and second floor. ✹ futurefronttexas.org/linehotel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691017248746-3WFCQM759A0D9JH2JC7I/thefrontfestival2023_southwestsisters-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out January is a Salvadorian-American performing artist and classically trained dancer from Houston, Texas that has been performing in drag for over 8 years in NYC. Using drag, dance, and music to compel her audience through storytelling she provides electrifying and high-energy performances. Through her drag showcases in 2019, digital livestreams in 2020, and upcoming events in 2023, January continues her collaborative efforts in the arts. She aims to bring attention to social issues affecting marginalized communities, including advocating for HIV testing. Each showcase centers and honors the work of LGBTQIA and BIPOC local drag queens, designers and multidisciplinary artists. ✹ @mizzzjanuary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691435226663-W6H9CS51S5XO45N9UALZ/thefrontfestival2023_artshows-4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Throughout the festival, enjoy a textured installation in The LINE Hotel Austin, as an exploration of maximalism and queer joy, thanks to our collaboration with Dallas-based artist Molly Sydnor. ✹ futurefronttexas.org/linehotel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691000975174-1WNH2HS33PY2MUQU4HCK/thefrontfestival2023_individual-5.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Simone Raquel Alexander (she/her) is a freelance artist, arts administrator, and arts advocate working in the nonprofit field and theatre community. She serves as Producing Artistic Director and Founder of New Manifest Theatre Company, where she has brought together an ensemble of interdisciplinary artists. Simone serves as the Senior Manager of Engagement and Accessibility at The Contemporary Austin Museum and the Development Director of Ground Floor Theatre. Simone Alexander’s artistic vision is dedicated to sharing the art of the people of today through storytelling from a diversity of uniquely specific voices, styles, and perspectives. Simone’s practice centers harm reduction tools and collective agreements as a funnel to tackle challenging themes and hold space for creativity and collaboration to thrive. ✹ @simoneraquelalexander ✹ simoneraquelalexander.blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691616781692-MJ0NG1UNF76H0X6CVS6V/thefrontfestival_music2023-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Viva Vidalia is a Houston-based Drag performer of nearly 15 years. She began her career in Long Island, NY performing whenever and wherever she could and soon started performing regularly all throughout New York City. She is known for her high energy performances, her colorful costumes and wicked sense of humor whilst hosting. In 2018, Viva began a small costume design business that very quickly grew. Her costumes have been seen on TV shows such as RuPauls Drag Race, Dragula, Camp Wannakiki and Dragnificnet as well as Drag and Burlesque performers all over the world. Currently you can find Viva Vidalia performing and designing costume all through Houston TX as well as Austin, San Antonio and New York City. ✹ @vivavidalia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1691683591064-H52J6A785XAMO256BOX3/thefrontfestival2023_miriamconner-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Miriam Conner (she/her) has curated and organized art and experiences for over a decade. She has been in Austin for 31 years by way of New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from St. Stephens Episcopal High School, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. After college, Miriam came home to Austin and began managing the Pine Street Station (an Artist warehouse and gallery) for two years, and has since planned countless art shows, in addition to co-founding Topology Art Warehouse. She has also worked with SXSW, Art Outside, Forklift Danceworks, Six Square – Austin’s Black Cultural District, the City of Austin, and more. She is the founder of Creative Policy, a firm recognized for its community-focused strategy that bridges policy-making and cultural engagement to achieve meaningful systems change. Additionally, she holds positions on the boards of Preservation Austin, Big Medium, and Greater Austin Neighborhoods, and she has previously served as a commissioner on the City of Austin's African American Quality of Life Commission. She has been creating in the Austin Art community since 2008. ✹ @mconner512 ✹ creativepolicy.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7b61e6e8-4dfa-42f9-a4f7-96981d1266e4/thefrontfestival2023_speakers-3.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Liz Moskowitz (she/her) is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY she has lived in Austin, Texas for over fifteen years. Her work aims to honor the dignity and nuance of people, places, and issues. She approaches each individual and community that she photographs with intentionality and an open-mind. Her films have won the Judge’s Choice Winner at the SXSW Faces of Austin Film Premiere, been a Vimeo Staff Pick, broadcast on the PBS "Frame of Mind" series, and shown at Woodstock Film Festival, AFI Fest, Dallas International Film Festival, and Sedona International Film Festival. ✹ @lizmoskowitz ✹ lizmoskowitz.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/8a144945-89ef-40f2-a940-b1cc69659a38/thefrontfestival2023_speakers-2.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Jay (they/them) is a drag king from Laredo, Texas who has lived in Austin for over 15 years. Their drag name “Bobby Pudrido” is an ode to Bobby Pulido, a Tejano artists who was a staple of their childhood. They are a member of Austin’s only drag king and gender diverse troupe, the Boyz of Austin. They have quickly established themself as a drag king and show host in Austin as the co-creator and producer of Brokeback Cantina, a monthly drag king revue showcasing Latine drag kings, as well as a monthly show, Drag Lab. Jay discovered their love for drag at the tender age of 32. Drag has been a way for them to explore their gender identity as a trans non-binary person and their culture as a person who grew up on the US-Mexico border. Their creative passion and favorite part of doing drag is creating spaces where queer Latine folks can feel seen and represented. ✹ @bobbypudrido https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/c28acf00-a575-48c1-b516-2d93dc64ad64/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-9.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Sister Palm (she/her) Sister Palm offers traditional and astrological palm readings based on ten years of worldwide research. ✹ @sisterpalm ✹ sisterpalm.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/3274b7e8-44ab-4344-b298-b9ee76551a6c/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-8.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out By Chef Cibelli, LLC is a multifaceted, LGBTQ-owned culinary experience-driven company specializing in all kinds of fun stuff. ✹ @chefcibelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/e873fc5c-645b-4038-b0c3-e8d91f27b580/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-6.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Women-owned, Calibrate Wellness offers gourmet, chef-crafted and legal cannabis products for your lifestyle. ✹ @shopcalibrate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7617566f-bec6-4ff0-ac83-ff3d8b13e88e/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-4.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out The GoGo Yum Yum is a super cute, women-owned ice cream truck serving up classic ice cream novelties as well as vegan and dairy-free options. ✹ @gogoyumyumtruck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/95884f43-f988-4f48-b65b-0f40841f41b6/thefrontfestival2023_vendors-1.png 2023 Lineup - Make it stand out Women-owned, Bakery Siena brings joy and smiles to people’s faces through cookies and Malaysian sweet cakes. ✹ @bakerysiena https://thefrontfest.com/2024lineup daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/bc1624d3-827e-4ef0-ab8b-97b87f0ab020/thefrontfestival_2024-AfterWereGone-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ After We’re Gone explores our relationship with death and mourning through a conversation using interviews of different participants portrayed within physical miniature rooms. Each story is completely different, yet how each relates shows how connected the mourning process can be. In the end, there is comfort in the collective experience of mortality. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Made of felt, cat hair and hair dye, Saige Kanik is a stop-motion fabricator, animator, and theatrical prop designer from the forests of New England. Recently relocated to Austin, she graduated from the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Degree in Stop Motion Animation and a minor in 3D Studio Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/61763654-f109-462a-a511-0810ddb97aa9/thefrontfestival_2024-ALittlePrayer-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In A Little Prayer, Gina has a spiritual experience in the bathroom after a night of clubbing. She expels more than just the evening's drinks. ABOUT THE PRODUCER & WRITER ✹ Marliza Mendez is a passionate Tejana filmmaker who thrives in the vibrant Austin indie scene, bringing stories to life through her screenwriting and acting. She loves to tell comedy and dark-comedy stories centered around the Latinx/Tejano experience with themes of paranormal experiences, the afterlife, and the impacts of generational trauma. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Julia Relova is a queer Filipino-American producer and director based in Chicago. She is a co-founder of Rm. 19 Productions which produces short films, features, and events across the US including Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/de52f75b-3557-46eb-ad98-b72e6ce3fe83/thefrontfestival_2024-EarthToKB-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Earth to KB is a documentary portrait of KB Brookins: a Black, queer, and trans writer and artist from Texas. The film explores the expansive worlds within KB's poetry, as well as moments shared with their wife, friends, and community in Austin. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Em Shapiro is a non-binary filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Their documentary short films are created in collaboration across a variety of art disciplines, centering queer, trans and disabled creatives. Their work has screened at festivals such as BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, TRANSlations and Bucheon International Animation Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ab8fa214-6911-4533-aba4-d5eac8329ca2/thefrontfestival_2024-elephant%21-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In Elephant!, a young Black girl befriends a wealthy but troubled classmate. Problems ensue. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Chinwe Okorie is a multi-genre writer & director who crafts stories rooted in reality and elevated by witty & absurdist observation. Her second film LOVEBITES was hand selected by Issa Rae to be featured on her YouTube Channel & her new film ELEPHANT!, a dark comedy about mental health in teens, premiered at the 2022 Austin Film Festival. She has received industry recognition from MovieMaker Magazine as a writer to watch and was nominated by the Austin Chronicles as Best Filmmaker in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/0280ba4d-17fa-4323-9dc8-006ee4adbae1/thefrontfestival_2024-JULIEBABY-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In JULIE BABY, mother-daughter-sister relationships are front and center in this story about what it means to be a woman in the world and the complicated ways we try to protect the ones we love. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Emily Grooms is a writer, director and casting director from Austin, Texas, now based in LA. She misses Vulcan Video and I Luv Video and even the Blockbuster on Guadalupe like she misses the days before the internet. She did grad school at UT Austin and is now the 2024 WIF Casting Fellow out in LA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/84c14123-7aa7-421a-9393-721a87b9e2f9/thefrontfestival_2024-LimbsOfOneBody-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ LImbs of One Body is a 1-minute experimental dance piece, dedicated to "all who are denied the freedom to dance," was created in collaboration with Ani Bradberry's "Sun Poem" installation at the Seaholm Intake Facility and the Austin Asian American Film Festival. Selected as the pre-show bumper for the 2024 festival, the film sheds light on the ban on public dancing in Iran, intertwining themes of Persian and Texan heritage and the ongoing fight for human rights. A labor of love, this piece amplifies the voices of those struggling for freedom and equality. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Bita Ghassemi is an award-winning Iranian-American writer, director, and photographer from Austin, Texas, whose work bridges her Iranian-Texan identity and global experiences. As a co-founder of PILLARBOXED, one of Austin's only women, POC, and LGBTQ-led video production companies, she is committed to fostering an inclusive space for marginalized creatives while delivering powerful societal messages that champion human rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/623caeb4-af8c-4d15-b2f8-698660003507/thefrontfestival_2024-moonmothbed-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Moon Moth Bed is a surreal, short film about destruction and metamorphosis. Inspired by Dr. Donna Haraway's ecofeminist writings and panpsychic philosophy, this live-action film collages together imagery of real Luna moths hatching from their cocoons amidst an ethereal video dreamworld populated with rumbling thunderstorms, textured sounds, and twinkling temple bells. Moon Moth Bed was directed, edited, produced, sound-scored, and performed-by multimedia artist Virginia L. Montgomrey alongside her Luna moth collaborators. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Virginia L. Montgomery is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin. ig: @skinnyaliens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/50e35dcb-9c09-4fcb-b2d8-a34aa2144f44/thefrontfestival_2024-MOONRISE-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In Moonrise, insecure college werewolf Raquel is invited to a house party by her crush, Kelly, on the night of the full moon. Raquel struggles all night long at the party to get to talk to Kelly, but finds her dancing with someone else. After a surprise encounter outside the party, Raquel gets one last chance with Kelly as the moon rises outside. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Beo Lerman is an award winning writer and director, and a lifelong native to Austin, Texas. Their work focuses on the inner lives of women and queer people, most often through a comedic lens. They enjoy campy monster movies and love colorful lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6fc14cb9-314b-4aba-ab96-6d516756ee0c/thefrontfestival_2024-PamelaAndersonWasAProphet-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Pamela Anderson Was a Prophet by Sheverb, directed by Emily Basma, is a music video that flips old Western iconography on its head by casting an entirely queer, mostly trans group of performers to tell a story where a Drag Queen is the great equalizer. It's good old fashion camp, but also a giant act of rebellion in these times where performing in drag is more and more threatened by the Texas legislation. ABOUT THE BAND ✹ Sheverb is a womxn-led, collectively run, psychedelic rock & roll band based in Austin, TX. Armed with their instruments, this crew is out to challenge our understanding of the romanticized Wild West with their desert-fueled, surf-infused sound. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Director Emily Basma is an Austin-based photographer and filmmaker who explores the iconography, folklore, and myths of antiquity as well as the American South. Her work has been featured by Peach Fuzz Magazine, The Alamo Drafthouse, Paramount, and SXSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/210b760b-35e5-44a2-bdc4-9585b36b4768/thefrontfestival_2024-RELICS-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Relics is a short film that focuses on personal narratives through the lens of migration. Filmed during a workshop at the Contemporary Laguna Gloria in September of 2023, participants explored their own family history through personal relics. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Ana Treviño is an artist and educator based in Austin, TX. Her practice bends the rules of filmmaking and is informed by cultural histories. Through video installation and performance she explores how she can reinvent subjugated narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2638dd2d-cc6e-4252-b066-a0c5cb785097/thefrontfestival_2024-SideQuests-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ SIDE QUESTS is a peep into the wild journey that is Aira’s love life. Misguided as she is, she stays a clueless but hopeful romantic. ABOUT THE WRITER ✹ Aira Juliet is an award winning host and community organizer - creator of black and queer as fuck and host of queer trivia. She is a comedian, writer, trivia extraordinaire. She has also danced on stage with Janelle Monae + Meg Thee Stallion. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Ben Weaver is a native Texas filmmaker. He started his career working for the local legends such as Terrence Malick and Richard Linklater. He is an Academy Nichole Fellowship quarterfinalist screenwriter with over 20 feature screenplays under his belt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/05bf5ffe-61a7-46da-b134-d65baa5cea07/thefrontfestival_2024-SoThatHappened-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In So, That Happened, Sheila and Imran haven’t seen each other since college, but when Imran moves back to Austin, an opportunity arises for the pair to get acquainted once more. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ NEHA AZIZ (she/her) is a Pakistani-born writer, director, film programmer, and podcaster living in Austin, TX. In 2021, she was named an iHeartRadio NextUP fellow for their inaugural podcast program; her show, PARTITION (limited series) debuted in August 2022 and has been featured on Apple Podcasts, NPR, The Austin Chronicle, The 19th News, The Austin American - Statesman, The RepresentASIAN Project, Asian Founded, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/f5862349-a8a9-4630-b301-56e13164e686/thefrontfestival_2024-SugarArmadilloBySingleLash-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In the video for Sugar Armadillo, directed by Faiza Kracheni, Nicolas Nadeau (of Single Lash) turns a personal trauma into a grotesque, carnival-like spectacle, reminiscent of Commedia Dell’Arte. With makeup inspired by Steve Strange and Ashes To Ashes-era Bowie, he narrates a surreal tale of love, a mischievous cat, electric shocks, and a dramatic collapse before a harsh audience. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Faiza Kracheni (she/her) is an Algerian & Mexican American self-taught media artist from East Austin, Texas. She is the founder of AUSTIN CINEMAKER SPACE, serves as Co-Director of the Motion Media Arts Center, and holds positions on the City of Austin’s Arts Commission and the UNESCO Media Arts Austin steering committee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/a17343a6-ca25-433f-8469-eca664bf1341/thefrontfestival_2024-PROMQUEEN-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out promqueen (she/they) is a second generation queer Vietnamese American based in Austin, built on authenticity, vulnerability, tự nhiên (being natural), quirkiness, and cultural pride. promqueen writes music for herself, her family, and for other Asian Americans who have ever struggled with “not being Asian enough” while simultaneously “not being American enough.” Fresh off the heels of the June 2024 release of her sophomore album ‘szn two’ and her second annual Prom, promqueen now sets her sights on ACL Music festival, collaborations with local business Terrazzo Tea, and a documentary premiering at the AARC. Backed by Austin based Asian American Label, mHart, promqueen is part of the next generation of Asian American artists on the rise. ✹ https://saypromqueen.com ✹ https://ffm.to/promqueen_szntwo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/4cd47412-9a91-4576-8511-a9881bc60f52/thefrontfestival_2024-NEVER-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Never is a four-piece from Austin, Texas, that weaves their collective expertise into a sonic tapestry of raw authenticity, haunting atmospheres, and angular energy. Through introspective lyrics that explore the human condition and society, Never navigates the contemporary musical landscape with a fresh perspective. Their live performances are a dynamic fusion of their influences, presenting a captivating experience oscillating between contemplative moments and cathartic bursts of expression. ✹ @n.everband ✹ Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/bd68ca6d-2ec2-467f-96df-cf9aadb19d9c/thefrontfestival_2024-P1NKSTAR-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out p1nkstar™ (ur fav electr0nic pop superstar!!) creates a world far removed from this dimensions binaries through music and conceptual shows mixing saccharine beats with subversive lyrics, tiaras with ball gags, and body hair with hypnotic ponytails. Merging hyperpop with neo-perreo and club, she has been described as “early Aughts Paris Hilton on Hello Kitty steroids” by The Austin Chronicle, who recently crowned her as their Queer Pop Princess. In her live performances p1nkstar affectionately delivers pure pop performance, mixing witty vocals with electronic beats and video interludes with choreographed numbers and back-up dancers. Since her performance debut in late 2016, p1nkstar has shared bills with Charli XCX, Crystal Waters, The Ladies of LCD Soundsystem, Alok V. Menon, Dorian Electra, JD Samson, OSHUN, and Sateen. p1nkstar released her debut EP “Number 1 Hits!” March 6 2020, featuring five songs produced in collaboration with Mr.Kitty, Ben Aqua & Boy Sim. Bringing her Latinx roots to the increasingly popular hyperpop genre, p1nkstar lays out a bilingual story that touches on the complexities of her queer, trans and immigrant identities in our hyper-mediated digital world. The EP consists of futuristic beats and highly-processed vocals in which p1nkstar renders and invites her listeners into a queer futurity she envisions. Since moving from Mexico in 2014, p1nkstar has rapidly become an emblematic figure in the Texas nightlife scene by opening inclusive spaces that center that work of queer and trans artists of color in a city that is rapidly becoming whiter and straighter. p1nkstar has received two Best of Austin awards for her space-making work in the arts and nightlife & has been presented as the future of nightlife by The Austin Chronicle. ✹ @p1nkstar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1fcadb36-cd33-47f0-9b90-d98927b311a0/thefrontfestival_2024-PAMREYES-6.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Pam Reyes is an independent singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas by way of Queens, New York. Pam writes songs to make sense of the world around her. Her forthcoming album, Temporary, will be independently released on all digital platforms on August 9, 2024. In Temporary, Reyes reflects on experiences of transience and diaspora throughout her life– moving to Austin at a height of the COVID pandemic, her immigration from the Philippines to the United States, and what it means to arrive in and (depart from) a place.) ✹ @bananapamcake ✹ pamreyesmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/0833d66c-4c83-46e2-a898-dfa329fe09a9/thefrontfestival_2024-djwyldflower-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Blooming in Austin but rooted in Detroit, DJ Wyldflower is heavily influenced by Classic and Soulful House music, though her styles and interests are as expansive as her travels have been. She is the founder and host of Sunday Sessions ATX. As a music fanatic, digger and bop deliverer, Wyldflower's dream is to create experiences and curate sets that make people feel light, free and alive. Her sound is groovy, funky, jazzy, eclectic and versatile. She releases mixes under the tag Wyldcard Wednesday that showcase some of her style. ✹ @djwyldflower ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/4983ace4-8bdc-44a2-aea5-877617b79885/thefrontfestival_2024-majestyofdivinity-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Majesty of Divinity offers sanctuary within the sphere of her live presence and music. Using sounds from around the globe, she weaves together an energy in the dance music scene that is not from this world. Majesty demonstrates the power of music and uses her love of bringing people together and creating safe spaces for those in need. She is also dedicated to finding the best and hottest tracks from the underground, ensuring new sounds and fresh sets anytime you get to see her in action. Since forming her project in 2021 just outside of Austin, Texas, her drive and passion to share the sounds of the world has allowed many doors to open as well as many beautiful connections to be made. She’s landed opportunities like performing at Deep Tropics Festival, Elements Music & Arts Festival, SXSW, and to be featured on the radio by Femme House on SiriusXM’s channel Diplo’s Revolution. ✹ @majestyofdivinity ✹ Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/26b908c8-2e6c-4704-873a-96178bb7f7ea/thefrontfestival_2024-HIERBAMALITA2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Houston-native Luya Moreno aka Hierba Malita (they/she) is a queer Latinx multi-disciplinary creative who DJs open-format style with influences ranging from Hip Hop, R&B to Baile Funk, Dembow, Soulful House, Jazzy Spiritual and more. It's about "having fun and sharing the moment with those who resonate with you." Hierba Malita is the founder of the Latina-led creative collective Flwrpot.Co, where the goal is to build communities and nurture artists' growth, with a heavy emphasis on those who are BIPOC and Queer. Luya is also an art educator for Austin's youth, working with the Mexic-Arte Museum to teach students how to design and screen print their own shirts.YKTV! Growth, Love, Creativity, Authenticity and Community. AMEN! ✹ @hierbamalita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1a72496f-e497-473b-b0ac-609bc971950a/thefrontfestival_2024-supermcn4sty-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Supermcn4sty, privately known as Dante (he/they), is an open format DJ and producer based in Austin, Texas. Dante began perfecting his craft in 2017 within a few years time his experience has expanded to spinning at the hottest bars and nightclubs throughout Texas, weddings, private events, holding radio and club residencies such as Love Theory (2023), SZR (2022-2023), and Slow Jams Sunday (2021). To debuting in 2022 at Boiler Room in Houston, Texas, playing at music festivals such as SXSW in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 as an official artist and organizing successful benefit events for local/national non profits such as Creative Action ATX, Communities United Against Police Brutality, and Austin Black Pride. With Supermcn4sty as your sound selector—whether it’s variations of underground club music, house, dance, hip hop, r&b, dancehall, variations of latin or any genre—expect precision, musical exploration, and an unbeatable energy/sound. ✹ https://www.djsupermcn4sty.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/490c1bfd-5c00-49e3-a18c-e4b1305420da/thefrontfestival_2024-djfairyaries-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out DJ FAIRY ARIES (she/they) is a DJ based in Austin, Texas. “Frolic with the last Austin Native. Let's keep Austin lit of our records.” ✹ https://linktr.ee/djfairyaries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6e14d014-fe87-4096-83a6-395b765a5917/thefrontfestival_2024-DJVENEER-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Mikaela Rodriquez (she/her), known as Dj Veneer, is a queer disabled producer from Austin, born and raised in South Texas. Her production is inspired by early electronic pioneers like Aphex Twin and Oval while also drawing from classic Chicago House. Mikaela creates music as a form of cathartic release and to share the joy of sound and movement. She's critical of the paradigm of artist as commodity accelerated by social media. She has a day job as a technical writer — to keep the lights on. ✹ @djveneer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7d083d41-ee4a-49d8-8f06-d3b9dcd9d25f/thefrontfestival_2024-djvioleta-10.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Violeta Új of Resident Psychic is a multidisciplinary artist from Cancun, Mexico who, inspired by everything from Björk to Ivy Queen, believes music is a conduit for creation and a tool for self-discovery. As an open-format DJ, Violeta aims to create healing spaces through dance. You can expect to hear sounds of neoperreo, baile funk, electropop, jungle, latinhouse, soul, r&b, and shoegaze. Outside of DJing she writes BABEATX’s biweekly newsletter, works on freelance Art Direction, and is working on her debut graphic novel. ✹ @dj.violeta ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ae1ee94c-5ecd-4bfe-b6b7-5b71cac74606/thefrontfestival_2024-DREAMS-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Dreams is a non-binary black DJ, located out of Austin, Texas. They specialize in house, They’ve held residencies with ATX Cuatro Gato, Shared Frequencies (an artist-run radio station), Hong Kong Community Radio, and currently hold a monthly residency with Guad Vintage Market. Dreams is the founder of a party series, BLKRAVECULTURE, which focuses on providing monthly parties, curated for Black people by Black people. Dreams sculpts an electrifying atmosphere that transcends time and space. They paint emotions in sound, leaving an audience entranced by the feelings they conjure on the dance floor. ✹ @eccomusica ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/f9ca4232-9750-4961-9396-e9ba47001bcd/thefrontfestival_2024-knstalgia-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Bay Area born and raised, DJ Knstalgia, is an open format DJ that blends the sounds of West Coast Hip-Hop, R&B, Electronic/House, and whatever gets the hotties feeling free to let loose and be themselves with those who share the same passion and love. ✹ @knstalgia ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/903cff0c-6b30-42ac-9636-8fae8c487477/thefrontfestival_2024-LavenderThug-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Lavender Thug (she/her) is a musician, DJ, and drag artist from El Paso, Texas. She recently moved to Austin to pursue entertaining and art full-time, now holding residencies at Coconut Club, Neon Grotto, and Cheer Up Charlie’s. You can find her everywhere @lavenderthug. ✹ @lavenderthug https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/4a1d4051-d3a8-4b21-a83e-5eb2018ff5ef/thefrontfestival_2024-hardshapes-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out HardShapes (she/they) uses a language of colors and shapes to translate the world around and inside of them. Bold, bright, and intentional, they specialize in large-scale commissions and murals. ✹ http://hardshapes.bigcartel.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/cb679417-be8a-4046-a2f6-7361a12db1ec/thefrontfestival_2024-earlyeracollective-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Early Era Collective is a nonprofit multiform, multi-perspective dance company based in Austin, Texas since 2018. We believe that professional creative work is strongest when collaboratively made by individuals with a variety of training, artistic processes, expertise, lived experience, and world views. Directed by Stephanie Patrick, we are comprised of dancers from contemporary, street style, tap, and other forms, as well as filmmakers, spoken word artists, actors, and singers. No two Early Era creations are the same. Our live productions and internationally featured films often carry a social justice message folded into their artistry, emphasizing personal stories over politics. ✹ https://www.stephaniepatrick.me ✹ @earlyeracollective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/c3c4283e-4327-46ce-aea4-03c7277a9c97/thefrontfestival_2024-chandrikametivier-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Chandrika is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist of Haitian, Native, and Mexican descent whose creative expression spans performance-theatre, soft sculptures, and text-based paintings on public structures. Their installations and performances across the United States tackle daring and provocative themes, often drawing from personal narratives to illuminate pressing global issues. These semi-autobiographical pieces underscore the intersections of discrimination and radicalism. Seamlessly blending art with activism, Chandrika utilizes a myriad of disciplines as powerful instruments for social protest. Their collaborative engagements include projects with esteemed institutions and platforms such as DiverseWorks, The Orange Show, Rice University, Soho House, Puma, The Contemporary Austin, SaveArtSpace, and Art At A Time Like This. ✹ https://www.chandrikametivier.com ✹ @ch4ndrika https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/84c647dd-931b-4aa4-b666-c99143f5f4a0/thefrontfestival_2024-ANIBRADBERRY-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Anahita (Ani) Bradberry is an Iranian-American artist and writer creating sculptural situations with plasma light. As organic bodies and minimal geometries, her practice is an exercise in life-forming: filling tubular vessels with pulsing plasma—the luminous fourth state of matter—and arranging the ethereal light in conversation with its surroundings. Each object is simultaneously a multidimensional line and an atmospheric field. These glowing paths explore the celestial relationship between illumination, container, and viewer, noting ways in which the built and natural environment is just as much a part of the light’s existence as the source itself. Her work seeks poetic commonality between the hum of a bar neon and the plasma warmth of the sun itself, often exploring a site-responsive state of alienation that is defined by oscillating identities and cultural memory. Plasma lamps are essentially alive: “mortal” in their fragility, prone to unexpected internal behaviors, and reliant on external power sources. She finds the lack of predictability in materials such as neon gas and other organic matter as a valuable characteristic, allowing the artwork autonomy and evolution over time. Her path into art-making was paved in graduate study of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art History, with special attention to Mono-ha, Gutai, Jikken Kobo, and the avant-garde photography of Otsuji Kiyoji. Post-thesis, she continues to reflect on these collectives’ exhibition practices that sparked collective conversation between material autonomy, organic matter, play, and poetic humanism. Anahita has been featured in exhibitions at Women & Their Work Gallery (TX), Co-Lab Projects (TX), MASS Gallery (TX), ArtSpring Lichtkunstfest (Berlin), Dominique Gallery (LA), Two Six Eight Bowery (NYC), the Washington Project for the Arts (DC), Transformer (DC), VisArts (VA), the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (DC), George Washington University's Gallery 102 (DC) and CICA — the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea). Anahita earned an MA in Art History in 2015 on Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art from American University (Washington, DC), conducting primary research in Tokyo with the help of a Mellon Grant and lecturing on her research at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. She later assisted in the archival projects at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as a Research Assistant. During her time in DC, she co-founded DIRT: an accessible online platform for unconventional art criticism and intimate artist interviews. From there, she continued archival practices in NYC as a knowledge management consultant for architecture and design firms. In 2024, the City of Austin and the Trail Conservancy commissioned the monumental Sun Poem through the TEMPO Public Art Program: a year-long installation at the historic Seaholm Water Intake Facility landmark in downtown Austin. Ani is a contributing member of MASS Gallery, a volunteer-run collaborative exhibition space in Austin, TX. ✹ https://www.anibradberry.com ✹ @ani.data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6a04346f-b183-4e67-b3c9-2ce27bcacf78/thefrontfestival_2024-simoneraquelalexander-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Simone Raquel Alexander (she/her) is a freelance artist, arts administrator, and arts advocate working in the nonprofit field and theatre community. Simone serves as Senior Manager of Engagement and Accessibility at The Contemporary Austin museum. She serves as Producing Artistic Director and Founder of New Manifest Theatre Company, where she has brought together an ensemble of interdisciplinary artists. Simone volunteers through service on the Mama Sana Vibrant Women Board Circle, University of Texas UTeach Fine Arts Advisory Council, Austin Community Colleges AAS Drama in Tech Theatre Advisory Committee, and the ATX Theatre Advisory Board. ✹ Simoneraquelalexander.blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/bda470e7-fc62-4c9c-bdf2-9ea1c36e3ba8/thefrontfestival_2024-cierramadison-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Blooming in Austin but rooted in Detroit, DJ Wyldflower is heavily influenced by Classic and Soulful House music, though her styles and interests are as expansive as her travels have been. She is the founder and host of Sunday Sessions ATX. As a music fanatic, digger and bop deliverer, Wyldflower's dream is to create experiences and curate sets that make people feel light, free and alive. Her sound is groovy, funky, jazzy, eclectic and versatile. She releases mixes under the tag Wyldcard Wednesday that showcase some of her style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/dbfa46a0-48b1-4a27-9afb-f2bdcc151b51/thefrontfestival_2024-ALACOSTA-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Al Acosta (they/them) is an ancestral worker, plant nerd and healing arts practitioner at Potion, a contemporary wellness collective and studio local to Austin, Texas. As a tarot guide and psychic artist, they offer sessions and readings as Santos Suerte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/a22c0e86-3494-4546-9afe-5ac06b884582/thefrontfestival_2024-ChefJRodi-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Jen D. Rodriguez (she/her) is the owner and executive chef of 3 small plates catering, which specializes in chef-curated culinary excursions. The Texas native creates various flavors and cuisines for guests to enjoy Europe's visual splendor, borrowing inspiration from her travels to Europe, her family's experiences, and her passion for cooking. She discovered her passion for cooking as a child while spending time with her grandmother, and she has since served a range of Austin groups, including civic, commercial, and non-profit organizations, private events, art and music markets, and chef collaborations. She is currently a curator for the Future Front Texas group, as well as co-chair of the Austin Les Dames Escoffier Programming Committee. ✹ @chef_jrodi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/bc1624d3-827e-4ef0-ab8b-97b87f0ab020/thefrontfestival_2024-AfterWereGone-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ After We’re Gone explores our relationship with death and mourning through a conversation using interviews of different participants portrayed within physical miniature rooms. Each story is completely different, yet how each relates shows how connected the mourning process can be. In the end, there is comfort in the collective experience of mortality. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Made of felt, cat hair and hair dye, Saige Kanik is a stop-motion fabricator, animator, and theatrical prop designer from the forests of New England. Recently relocated to Austin, she graduated from the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Degree in Stop Motion Animation and a minor in 3D Studio Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/61763654-f109-462a-a511-0810ddb97aa9/thefrontfestival_2024-ALittlePrayer-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In A Little Prayer, Gina has a spiritual experience in the bathroom after a night of clubbing. She expels more than just the evening's drinks. ABOUT THE PRODUCER & WRITER ✹ Marliza Mendez is a passionate Tejana filmmaker who thrives in the vibrant Austin indie scene, bringing stories to life through her screenwriting and acting. She loves to tell comedy and dark-comedy stories centered around the Latinx/Tejano experience with themes of paranormal experiences, the afterlife, and the impacts of generational trauma. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Julia Relova is a queer Filipino-American producer and director based in Chicago. She is a co-founder of Rm. 19 Productions which produces short films, features, and events across the US including Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/de52f75b-3557-46eb-ad98-b72e6ce3fe83/thefrontfestival_2024-EarthToKB-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Earth to KB is a documentary portrait of KB Brookins: a Black, queer, and trans writer and artist from Texas. The film explores the expansive worlds within KB's poetry, as well as moments shared with their wife, friends, and community in Austin. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Em Shapiro is a non-binary filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Their documentary short films are created in collaboration across a variety of art disciplines, centering queer, trans and disabled creatives. Their work has screened at festivals such as BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, TRANSlations and Bucheon International Animation Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ab8fa214-6911-4533-aba4-d5eac8329ca2/thefrontfestival_2024-elephant%21-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In Elephant!, a young Black girl befriends a wealthy but troubled classmate. Problems ensue. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Chinwe Okorie is a multi-genre writer & director who crafts stories rooted in reality and elevated by witty & absurdist observation. Her second film LOVEBITES was hand selected by Issa Rae to be featured on her YouTube Channel & her new film ELEPHANT!, a dark comedy about mental health in teens, premiered at the 2022 Austin Film Festival. She has received industry recognition from MovieMaker Magazine as a writer to watch and was nominated by the Austin Chronicles as Best Filmmaker in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/0280ba4d-17fa-4323-9dc8-006ee4adbae1/thefrontfestival_2024-JULIEBABY-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In JULIE BABY, mother-daughter-sister relationships are front and center in this story about what it means to be a woman in the world and the complicated ways we try to protect the ones we love. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Emily Grooms is a writer, director and casting director from Austin, Texas, now based in LA. She misses Vulcan Video and I Luv Video and even the Blockbuster on Guadalupe like she misses the days before the internet. She did grad school at UT Austin and is now the 2024 WIF Casting Fellow out in LA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/84c14123-7aa7-421a-9393-721a87b9e2f9/thefrontfestival_2024-LimbsOfOneBody-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ LImbs of One Body is a 1-minute experimental dance piece, dedicated to "all who are denied the freedom to dance," was created in collaboration with Ani Bradberry's "Sun Poem" installation at the Seaholm Intake Facility and the Austin Asian American Film Festival. Selected as the pre-show bumper for the 2024 festival, the film sheds light on the ban on public dancing in Iran, intertwining themes of Persian and Texan heritage and the ongoing fight for human rights. A labor of love, this piece amplifies the voices of those struggling for freedom and equality. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Bita Ghassemi is an award-winning Iranian-American writer, director, and photographer from Austin, Texas, whose work bridges her Iranian-Texan identity and global experiences. As a co-founder of PILLARBOXED, one of Austin's only women, POC, and LGBTQ-led video production companies, she is committed to fostering an inclusive space for marginalized creatives while delivering powerful societal messages that champion human rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/623caeb4-af8c-4d15-b2f8-698660003507/thefrontfestival_2024-moonmothbed-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Moon Moth Bed is a surreal, short film about destruction and metamorphosis. Inspired by Dr. Donna Haraway's ecofeminist writings and panpsychic philosophy, this live-action film collages together imagery of real Luna moths hatching from their cocoons amidst an ethereal video dreamworld populated with rumbling thunderstorms, textured sounds, and twinkling temple bells. Moon Moth Bed was directed, edited, produced, sound-scored, and performed-by multimedia artist Virginia L. Montgomrey alongside her Luna moth collaborators. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Virginia L. Montgomery is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin. ig: @skinnyaliens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/50e35dcb-9c09-4fcb-b2d8-a34aa2144f44/thefrontfestival_2024-MOONRISE-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In Moonrise, insecure college werewolf Raquel is invited to a house party by her crush, Kelly, on the night of the full moon. Raquel struggles all night long at the party to get to talk to Kelly, but finds her dancing with someone else. After a surprise encounter outside the party, Raquel gets one last chance with Kelly as the moon rises outside. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Beo Lerman is an award winning writer and director, and a lifelong native to Austin, Texas. Their work focuses on the inner lives of women and queer people, most often through a comedic lens. They enjoy campy monster movies and love colorful lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6fc14cb9-314b-4aba-ab96-6d516756ee0c/thefrontfestival_2024-PamelaAndersonWasAProphet-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Pamela Anderson Was a Prophet by Sheverb, directed by Emily Basma, is a music video that flips old Western iconography on its head by casting an entirely queer, mostly trans group of performers to tell a story where a Drag Queen is the great equalizer. It's good old fashion camp, but also a giant act of rebellion in these times where performing in drag is more and more threatened by the Texas legislation. ABOUT THE BAND ✹ Sheverb is a womxn-led, collectively run, psychedelic rock & roll band based in Austin, TX. Armed with their instruments, this crew is out to challenge our understanding of the romanticized Wild West with their desert-fueled, surf-infused sound. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Director Emily Basma is an Austin-based photographer and filmmaker who explores the iconography, folklore, and myths of antiquity as well as the American South. Her work has been featured by Peach Fuzz Magazine, The Alamo Drafthouse, Paramount and SXSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/210b760b-35e5-44a2-bdc4-9585b36b4768/thefrontfestival_2024-RELICS-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ Relics is a short film that focuses on personal narratives through the lens of migration. Filmed during a workshop at the Contemporary Laguna Gloria in September of 2023, participants explored their own family history through personal relics. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Ana Treviño is an artist and educator based in Austin, TX. Her practice bends the rules of filmmaking and is informed by cultural histories. Through video installation and performance she explores how she can reinvent subjugated narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2638dd2d-cc6e-4252-b066-a0c5cb785097/thefrontfestival_2024-SideQuests-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ SIDE QUESTS is a peep into the wild journey that is Aira’s love life. Misguided as she is, she stays a clueless but hopeful romantic. ABOUT THE WRITER ✹ Aira Juliet is an award winning host and community organizer - creator of black and queer as fuck and host of queer trivia. She is a comedian, writer, trivia extraordinaire. She has also danced on stage with Janelle Monae + Meg Thee Stallion. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Ben Weaver is a native Texas filmmaker. He started his career working for the local legends such as Terrence Malick and Richard Linklater. He is an Academy Nichole Fellowship quarterfinalist screenwriter with over 20 feature screenplays under his belt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/05bf5ffe-61a7-46da-b134-d65baa5cea07/thefrontfestival_2024-SoThatHappened-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In So, That Happened, Sheila and Imran haven’t seen each other since college, but when Imran moves back to Austin, an opportunity arises for the pair to get acquainted once more. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ NEHA AZIZ (she/her) is a Pakistani-born writer, director, film programmer, and podcaster living in Austin, TX. In 2021, she was named an iHeartRadio NextUP fellow for their inaugural podcast program; her show, PARTITION (limited series) debuted in August 2022 and has been featured on Apple Podcasts, NPR, The Austin Chronicle, The 19th News, The Austin American - Statesman, The RepresentASIAN Project, Asian Founded, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/f5862349-a8a9-4630-b301-56e13164e686/thefrontfestival_2024-SugarArmadilloBySingleLash-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out ABOUT THE FILM ✹ In the video for Sugar Armadillo, directed by Faiza Kracheni, Nicolas Nadeau (of Single Lash) turns a personal trauma into a grotesque, carnival-like spectacle, reminiscent of Commedia Dell’Arte. With makeup inspired by Steve Strange and Ashes To Ashes-era Bowie, he narrates a surreal tale of love, a mischievous cat, electric shocks, and a dramatic collapse before a harsh audience. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ✹ Faiza Kracheni (she/her) is an Algerian & Mexican American self-taught media artist from East Austin, Texas. She is the founder of AUSTIN CINEMAKER SPACE, serves as Co-Director of the Motion Media Arts Center, and holds positions on the City of Austin’s Arts Commission and the UNESCO Media Arts Austin steering committee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/a17343a6-ca25-433f-8469-eca664bf1341/thefrontfestival_2024-PROMQUEEN-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out promqueen (she/they) is a second generation queer Vietnamese American based in Austin, built on authenticity, vulnerability, tự nhiên (being natural), quirkiness, and cultural pride. promqueen writes music for herself, her family, and for other Asian Americans who have ever struggled with “not being Asian enough” while simultaneously “not being American enough.” Fresh off the heels of the June 2024 release of her sophomore album ‘szn two’ and her second annual Prom, promqueen now sets her sights on ACL Music festival, collaborations with local business Terrazzo Tea, and a documentary premiering at the AARC. Backed by Austin based Asian American Label, mHart, promqueen is part of the next generation of Asian American artists on the rise. ✹ https://saypromqueen.com ✹ https://ffm.to/promqueen_szntwo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/4cd47412-9a91-4576-8511-a9881bc60f52/thefrontfestival_2024-NEVER-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Never is a four-piece from Austin, Texas, that weaves their collective expertise into a sonic tapestry of raw authenticity, haunting atmospheres, and angular energy. Through introspective lyrics that explore the human condition and society, Never navigates the contemporary musical landscape with a fresh perspective. Their live performances are a dynamic fusion of their influences, presenting a captivating experience oscillating between contemplative moments and cathartic bursts of expression. ✹ @n.everband ✹ Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/bd68ca6d-2ec2-467f-96df-cf9aadb19d9c/thefrontfestival_2024-P1NKSTAR-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out p1nkstar™ (ur fav electr0nic pop superstar!!) creates a world far removed from this dimensions binaries through music and conceptual shows mixing saccharine beats with subversive lyrics, tiaras with ball gags, and body hair with hypnotic ponytails. Merging hyperpop with neo-perreo and club, she has been described as “early Aughts Paris Hilton on Hello Kitty steroids” by The Austin Chronicle, who recently crowned her as their Queer Pop Princess. In her live performances p1nkstar affectionately delivers pure pop performance, mixing witty vocals with electronic beats and video interludes with choreographed numbers and back-up dancers. Since her performance debut in late 2016, p1nkstar has shared bills with Charli XCX, Crystal Waters, The Ladies of LCD Soundsystem, Alok V. Menon, Dorian Electra, JD Samson, OSHUN, and Sateen. p1nkstar released her debut EP “Number 1 Hits!” March 6 2020, featuring five songs produced in collaboration with Mr.Kitty, Ben Aqua & Boy Sim. Bringing her Latinx roots to the increasingly popular hyperpop genre, p1nkstar lays out a bilingual story that touches on the complexities of her queer, trans and immigrant identities in our hyper-mediated digital world. The EP consists of futuristic beats and highly-processed vocals in which p1nkstar renders and invites her listeners into a queer futurity she envisions. Since moving from Mexico in 2014, p1nkstar has rapidly become an emblematic figure in the Texas nightlife scene by opening inclusive spaces that center that work of queer and trans artists of color in a city that is rapidly becoming whiter and straighter. p1nkstar has received two Best of Austin awards for her space-making work in the arts and nightlife & has been presented as the future of nightlife by The Austin Chronicle. ✹ @p1nkstar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1fcadb36-cd33-47f0-9b90-d98927b311a0/thefrontfestival_2024-PAMREYES-6.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Pam Reyes is an independent singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas by way of Queens, New York. Pam writes songs to make sense of the world around her. Her forthcoming album, Temporary, will be independently released on all digital platforms on August 9, 2024. In Temporary, Reyes reflects on experiences of transience and diaspora throughout her life– moving to Austin at a height of the COVID pandemic, her immigration from the Philippines to the United States, and what it means to arrive in and (depart from) a place.) ✹ @bananapamcake ✹ pamreyesmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/0833d66c-4c83-46e2-a898-dfa329fe09a9/thefrontfestival_2024-djwyldflower-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Blooming in Austin but rooted in Detroit, DJ Wyldflower is heavily influenced by Classic and Soulful House music, though her styles and interests are as expansive as her travels have been. She is the founder and host of Sunday Sessions ATX. As a music fanatic, digger and bop deliverer, Wyldflower's dream is to create experiences and curate sets that make people feel light, free and alive. Her sound is groovy, funky, jazzy, eclectic and versatile. She releases mixes under the tag Wyldcard Wednesday that showcase some of her style. ✹ @djwyldflower ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/4983ace4-8bdc-44a2-aea5-877617b79885/thefrontfestival_2024-majestyofdivinity-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Majesty of Divinity offers sanctuary within the sphere of her live presence and music. Using sounds from around the globe, she weaves together an energy in the dance music scene that is not from this world. Majesty demonstrates the power of music and uses her love of bringing people together and creating safe spaces for those in need. She is also dedicated to finding the best and hottest tracks from the underground, ensuring new sounds and fresh sets anytime you get to see her in action. Since forming her project in 2021 just outside of Austin, Texas, her drive and passion to share the sounds of the world has allowed many doors to open as well as many beautiful connections to be made. She’s landed opportunities like performing at Deep Tropics Festival, Elements Music & Arts Festival, SXSW, and to be featured on the radio by Femme House on SiriusXM’s channel Diplo’s Revolution. ✹ @majestyofdivinity ✹ Spotify https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/26b908c8-2e6c-4704-873a-96178bb7f7ea/thefrontfestival_2024-HIERBAMALITA2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Houston-native Luya Moreno aka Hierba Malita (they/she) is a queer Latinx multi-disciplinary creative who DJs open-format style with influences ranging from Hip Hop, R&B to Baile Funk, Dembow, Soulful House, Jazzy Spiritual and more. It's about "having fun and sharing the moment with those who resonate with you." Hierba Malita is the founder of the Latina-led creative collective Flwrpot.Co, where the goal is to build communities and nurture artists' growth, with a heavy emphasis on those who are BIPOC and Queer. Luya is also an art educator for Austin's youth, working with the Mexic-Arte Museum to teach students how to design and screen print their own shirts.YKTV! Growth, Love, Creativity, Authenticity and Community. AMEN! ✹ @hierbamalita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/1a72496f-e497-473b-b0ac-609bc971950a/thefrontfestival_2024-supermcn4sty-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Supermcn4sty, privately known as Dante (he/they), is an open format DJ and producer based in Austin, Texas. Dante began perfecting his craft in 2017 within a few years time his experience has expanded to spinning at the hottest bars and nightclubs throughout Texas, weddings, private events, holding radio and club residencies such as Love Theory (2023), SZR (2022-2023), and Slow Jams Sunday (2021). To debuting in 2022 at Boiler Room in Houston, Texas, playing at music festivals such as SXSW in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 as an official artist and organizing successful benefit events for local/national non profits such as Creative Action ATX, Communities United Against Police Brutality, and Austin Black Pride. With Supermcn4sty as your sound selector—whether it’s variations of underground club music, house, dance, hip hop, r&b, dancehall, variations of latin or any genre—expect precision, musical exploration, and an unbeatable energy/sound. ✹ https://www.djsupermcn4sty.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/490c1bfd-5c00-49e3-a18c-e4b1305420da/thefrontfestival_2024-djfairyaries-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out DJ FAIRY ARIES (she/they) is a DJ based in Austin, Texas. “Frolic with the last Austin Native. Let's keep Austin lit of our records.” ✹ https://linktr.ee/djfairyaries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6e14d014-fe87-4096-83a6-395b765a5917/thefrontfestival_2024-DJVENEER-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Mikaela Rodriquez (she/her), known as Dj Veneer, is a queer disabled producer from Austin, born and raised in South Texas. Her production is inspired by early electronic pioneers like Aphex Twin and Oval while also drawing from classic Chicago House. Mikaela creates music as a form of cathartic release and to share the joy of sound and movement. She's critical of the paradigm of artist as commodity accelerated by social media. She has a day job as a technical writer — to keep the lights on. ✹ @djveneer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7d083d41-ee4a-49d8-8f06-d3b9dcd9d25f/thefrontfestival_2024-djvioleta-10.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Violeta Új of Resident Psychic is a multidisciplinary artist from Cancun, Mexico who, inspired by everything from Björk to Ivy Queen, believes music is a conduit for creation and a tool for self-discovery. As an open-format DJ, Violeta aims to create healing spaces through dance. You can expect to hear sounds of neoperreo, baile funk, electropop, jungle, latinhouse, soul, r&b, and shoegaze. Outside of DJing she writes BABEATX’s biweekly newsletter, works on freelance Art Direction, and is working on her debut graphic novel. ✹ @dj.violeta ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ae1ee94c-5ecd-4bfe-b6b7-5b71cac74606/thefrontfestival_2024-DREAMS-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Dreams is a non-binary black DJ, located out of Austin, Texas. They specialize in house, They’ve held residencies with ATX Cuatro Gato, Shared Frequencies (an artist-run radio station), Hong Kong Community Radio, and currently hold a monthly residency with Guad Vintage Market. Dreams is the founder of a party series, BLKRAVECULTURE, which focuses on providing monthly parties, curated for Black people by Black people. Dreams sculpts an electrifying atmosphere that transcends time and space. They paint emotions in sound, leaving an audience entranced by the feelings they conjure on the dance floor. ✹ @eccomusica ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/f9ca4232-9750-4961-9396-e9ba47001bcd/thefrontfestival_2024-knstalgia-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Bay Area born and raised, DJ Knstalgia, is an open format DJ that blends the sounds of West Coast Hip-Hop, R&B, Electronic/House, and whatever gets the hotties feeling free to let loose and be themselves with those who share the same passion and love. ✹ @knstalgia ✹ Soundcloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/903cff0c-6b30-42ac-9636-8fae8c487477/thefrontfestival_2024-LavenderThug-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Lavender Thug (she/her) is a musician, DJ, and drag artist from El Paso, Texas. She recently moved to Austin to pursue entertaining and art full-time, now holding residencies at Coconut Club, Neon Grotto, and Cheer Up Charlie’s. You can find her everywhere @lavenderthug. ✹ @lavenderthug https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/4a1d4051-d3a8-4b21-a83e-5eb2018ff5ef/thefrontfestival_2024-hardshapes-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out HardShapes (she/they) uses a language of colors and shapes to translate the world around and inside of them. Bold, bright, and intentional, they specialize in large-scale commissions and murals. ✹ hardshapes.bigcartel.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/cb679417-be8a-4046-a2f6-7361a12db1ec/thefrontfestival_2024-earlyeracollective-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Early Era Collective is a nonprofit multiform, multi-perspective dance company based in Austin, Texas since 2018. We believe that professional creative work is strongest when collaboratively made by individuals with a variety of training, artistic processes, expertise, lived experience, and world views. Directed by Stephanie Patrick, we are comprised of dancers from contemporary, street style, tap, and other forms, as well as filmmakers, spoken word artists, actors, and singers. No two Early Era creations are the same. Our live productions and internationally featured films often carry a social justice message folded into their artistry, emphasizing personal stories over politics. ✹ stephaniepatrick.me ✹ @earlyeracollective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/c3c4283e-4327-46ce-aea4-03c7277a9c97/thefrontfestival_2024-chandrikametivier-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Chandrika is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist of Haitian, Native, and Mexican descent whose creative expression spans performance-theatre, soft sculptures, and text-based paintings on public structures. Their installations and performances across the United States tackle daring and provocative themes, often drawing from personal narratives to illuminate pressing global issues. These semi-autobiographical pieces underscore the intersections of discrimination and radicalism. Seamlessly blending art with activism, Chandrika utilizes a myriad of disciplines as powerful instruments for social protest. Their collaborative engagements include projects with esteemed institutions and platforms such as DiverseWorks, The Orange Show, Rice University, Soho House, Puma, The Contemporary Austin, SaveArtSpace, and Art At A Time Like This. ✹ chandrikametivier.com ✹ @ch4ndrika https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/84c647dd-931b-4aa4-b666-c99143f5f4a0/thefrontfestival_2024-ANIBRADBERRY-1.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Anahita (Ani) Bradberry is an Iranian-American artist and writer creating sculptural situations with plasma light. As organic bodies and minimal geometries, her practice is an exercise in life-forming: filling tubular vessels with pulsing plasma—the luminous fourth state of matter—and arranging the ethereal light in conversation with its surroundings. Each object is simultaneously a multidimensional line and an atmospheric field. These glowing paths explore the celestial relationship between illumination, container, and viewer, noting ways in which the built and natural environment is just as much a part of the light’s existence as the source itself. Her work seeks poetic commonality between the hum of a bar neon and the plasma warmth of the sun itself, often exploring a site-responsive state of alienation that is defined by oscillating identities and cultural memory. Plasma lamps are essentially alive: “mortal” in their fragility, prone to unexpected internal behaviors, and reliant on external power sources. She finds the lack of predictability in materials such as neon gas and other organic matter as a valuable characteristic, allowing the artwork autonomy and evolution over time. Her path into art-making was paved in graduate study of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art History, with special attention to Mono-ha, Gutai, Jikken Kobo, and the avant-garde photography of Otsuji Kiyoji. Post-thesis, she continues to reflect on these collectives’ exhibition practices that sparked collective conversation between material autonomy, organic matter, play, and poetic humanism. Anahita has been featured in exhibitions at Women & Their Work Gallery (TX), Co-Lab Projects (TX), MASS Gallery (TX), ArtSpring Lichtkunstfest (Berlin), Dominique Gallery (LA), Two Six Eight Bowery (NYC), the Washington Project for the Arts (DC), Transformer (DC), VisArts (VA), the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (DC), George Washington University's Gallery 102 (DC) and CICA — the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea). Anahita earned an MA in Art History in 2015 on Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art from American University (Washington, DC), conducting primary research in Tokyo with the help of a Mellon Grant and lecturing on her research at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. She later assisted in the archival projects at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as a Research Assistant. During her time in DC, she co-founded DIRT: an accessible online platform for unconventional art criticism and intimate artist interviews. From there, she continued archival practices in NYC as a knowledge management consultant for architecture and design firms. In 2024, the City of Austin and the Trail Conservancy commissioned the monumental Sun Poem through the TEMPO Public Art Program: a year-long installation at the historic Seaholm Water Intake Facility landmark in downtown Austin. Ani is a contributing member of MASS Gallery, a volunteer-run collaborative exhibition space in Austin, TX. ✹ anibradberry.com ✹ @ani.data https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6a04346f-b183-4e67-b3c9-2ce27bcacf78/thefrontfestival_2024-simoneraquelalexander-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Simone Raquel Alexander (she/her) is a freelance artist, arts administrator, and arts advocate working in the nonprofit field and theatre community. Simone serves as Senior Manager of Engagement and Accessibility at The Contemporary Austin museum. She serves as Producing Artistic Director and Founder of New Manifest Theatre Company, where she has brought together an ensemble of interdisciplinary artists. Simone volunteers through service on the Mama Sana Vibrant Women Board Circle, University of Texas UTeach Fine Arts Advisory Council, Austin Community Colleges AAS Drama in Tech Theatre Advisory Committee, and the ATX Theatre Advisory Board. ✹ Simoneraquelalexander.blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/bda470e7-fc62-4c9c-bdf2-9ea1c36e3ba8/thefrontfestival_2024-cierramadison-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Blooming in Austin but rooted in Detroit, DJ Wyldflower is heavily influenced by Classic and Soulful House music, though her styles and interests are as expansive as her travels have been. She is the founder and host of Sunday Sessions ATX. As a music fanatic, digger and bop deliverer, Wyldflower's dream is to create experiences and curate sets that make people feel light, free and alive. Her sound is groovy, funky, jazzy, eclectic and versatile. She releases mixes under the tag Wyldcard Wednesday that showcase some of her style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/dbfa46a0-48b1-4a27-9afb-f2bdcc151b51/thefrontfestival_2024-ALACOSTA-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Al Acosta (they/them) is an ancestral worker, plant nerd and healing arts practitioner at Potion, a contemporary wellness collective and studio local to Austin, Texas. As a tarot guide and psychic artist, they offer sessions and readings as Santos Suerte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/a22c0e86-3494-4546-9afe-5ac06b884582/thefrontfestival_2024-ChefJRodi-2.png 2024 Lineup - Make it stand out Jen D. Rodriguez (she/her) is the owner and executive chef of 3 small plates catering, which specializes in chef-curated culinary excursions. The Texas native creates various flavors and cuisines for guests to enjoy Europe's visual splendor, borrowing inspiration from her travels to Europe, her family's experiences, and her passion for cooking. She discovered her passion for cooking as a child while spending time with her grandmother, and she has since served a range of Austin groups, including civic, commercial, and non-profit organizations, private events, art and music markets, and chef collaborations. She is currently a curator for the Future Front Texas group, as well as co-chair of the Austin Les Dames Escoffier Programming Committee. ✹ @chef_jrodi https://thefrontfest.com/2025lineup daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6de053c9-1dc7-4e42-b7e9-9491f49a7757/Still+2025-05-31+230409_1.79.1+%281%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out TIGER, WRITTEN BY ABBEY WEBER AND DIRECTED BY KATIE MACK ABOUT THE FILM ★ After sharing a dreamy moment at dance class, Airen finds a keychain dropped by their dance partner and can't stop thinking about them. Will Airen see them again? In Tiger, love’s a beast, and this kitten’s in heat. ABOUT THE WRITER ★ Abbey Weber (they/them) is a queer, multidisciplinary, expressionist artist, writer, and filmmaker living in Austin, TX. Working with themes of love, obsession, heartbreak, and identity, Abbey believes that art making is a way of telling the truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/e7032fea-ab03-435a-8d32-b62f20685aa0/Sombras2.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out SOMBRAS, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SOFIA ALEJANDRA BARRIOS ABOUT THE FILM ★ Based on the director’s father, SOMBRAS is an homage to lineage and one man’s passion to become a mariachi singer. So many Latine immigrants sacrifice their desires for the prosperity of their family, and this film brings the sacrificed dreams of a parent to life. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ Sofia Alejandra Barrios is an incoming fourth-year Film and Latino Media Arts student at UT Austin. Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, she is driven by a desire to uplift and share Latine narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/787ff548-19ba-4960-9ab5-ff32c9f5334f/Neches_still3.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out NECHES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KATY MCCARTHY ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Neches, we join an older woman who experiences a quiet telepathy with the Neches River. The river offers us the woman’s memories, as she recalls being a young girl warmly introduced to the spirit of the place by her mother. As the film conflates time, we see a forest once lush now gone—can a landscape provide the resolution our guide craves about the past? ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ Katy McCarthy (she/her) is an artist, filmmaker and educator based in Austin, Texas. Her work has been screened and exhibited at the Dallas International Film Festival’s Short Film Fest, Cindependent Film Festival, The Every Woman Biennial Film Festival, Tiger Strike Asteroid Gallery Los Angeles, and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum among other venues. She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/867ac309-fc98-49e1-9a94-de77f7e11d7d/HH_PromoPhoto3+%281%29.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out OUR FIRST HAUNTED HOME, WRITTEN BY MASE KERWICK AND DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH MIMS ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Our First Haunted Home, a neurotic gay couple spiral out of control when their next door neighbor attempts to make a documentary about the sexually frustrated ghost haunting their home. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ★ Elizabeth Mims is an award-winning Austin filmmaker with 15+ years’ experience in the film industry spanning writing, directing, editing, and producing. She was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s Faces to Watch and nominated for a Spirit Award for her documentary Only the Young. She's currently the executive producer for the Emmy award-winning PBS television show On Story. ABOUT THE WRITER & PRODUCER ★ Mase Kerwick is a queer filmmaker, content producer, and comedian based in Austin, Texas. Since 2017, he has hosted the popular comedy show Queertowne, a two-time nominee for Best Podcast in The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin Readers Poll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/00fd1371-6f85-4965-9afa-bf3573bbd0b7/Princess+2.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out PRINCESS, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY BEVERLY “BEV” CHUKWU ABOUT THE FILM ★ PRINCESS is a psychological drama about a 33-year-old shut-in, who convinces herself to go to a community festival, where she’s forced to confront her assaulter and a chain of hallucinations related to her unprocessed trauma. As the eldest daughter in her Nigerian American family, Princess must reckon with the expectations placed on her to be sexually "pure" in a reality where she is not. A film for survivors, by survivors, PRINCESS uses surrealism and horror techniques to show the lengths we'll go to avoid telling the truth, especially when that truth is not deemed socially acceptable. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ✹ Beverly “Bev” Chukwu is a Nigerian American writer, director, producer and the co-founder of AyaGozie Productions, an art-making collective with a focus on culturally inclusive storytelling in the Texas area. Bev’s work rose to public attention in 2021, when her screenplay PRINCE OF LAVENDALE STREET won the international 2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and her projects have either screened or won awards at African Film Festival Atlanta, Women in Horror Film Festival, Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards, AGLIFF, Portland New Alternative voices, and more. Bev has earned fellowships from the Black List x WIF Lab; Google’s YouTube Originals Black Voices Program; and the James A. Michener Center for Writers, where she received her MFA in Screenwriting and Fiction and established herself as a queer writer, who tells genre-agnostic dramas about assimilation and the allure of groupthink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/d3438703-8fe7-4256-8324-630627a91507/PMH+photo5.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out PIZZA MY HEART, WRITTEN BY CHRISTINE HOANG AND DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH V. NEWMAN ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Pizza My Heart, a Pizza Telegram Singing Delivery Specialist (PTSD Specialist) delivers comfort food and a song to a heartbroken 12-year-old girl. Through musical dreamscapes, the characters experience connection and healing. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ✹ Writer, producer, and actor Christine Hoang and Director Elizabeth V. Newman have collaborated on several theatre productions that explore coming of age, self discovery, and the importance of kindness. Pizza My Heart is Christine and Elizabeth’s first film collaboration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/b5ea8d3c-86e5-4974-be5f-9875281b0c95/InTow_2_Credit_Zach_Morrison.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out IN TOW, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SHARON ARTEAGA ABOUT THE FILM ★ In IN TOW, a self-involved teen and her overworked single mom confront their differences as their mobile home is towed away ... with them inside of it! ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ SHARON ARTEAGA is a writer/director who convinced her mom to buy her a video camera instead of a Quinceañera. A first-generation Mexican-American, from Corpus Christi, Texas, Arteaga’s films playfully navigate generational, linguistic, and cultural differences between people. Arteaga's award-winning short films include the 2021 HBO LatinxShort Film Competition Winner, “When You Clean a Stranger’s Home,” now streaming on HBO Max. Passionate about empowering others to tell their own stories through film, Arteaga is a co-founder of the Tejanas in Film and is the Sr. Manager of Filmmaker Support at the Austin Film Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ce594c3f-873e-4f02-8394-6f919e355b86/vestalvirginvengeance.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out VESTAL VIRGIN VENGEANCE, DIRECTED BY VIRGINIA L. MONTGOMERY ABOUT THE FILM ★ Vestal Virgin Vengeance is a surreal, symbolic and sculptural art-film inspired by the feminist film-theory idea of "the gaze" and the contentious state of women's healthcare in Texas today. Via a surrealist lens, Vestal Virgin Vengeance channels the protective powers of The Vestal Virgins, an all-women pagan cult active in 2nd century Rome, who were renowned for their mysterious rites, supernatural abilities, and curious oaths to eternal virginity. Exploring themes of bodily autonomy, Vestal Virgin Vengeance was created in emotive response to the tragic 2024 deaths of Texas women Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain, who each died due Texas’s unjust abortion ban—a policy which prohibits Texas women from receiving life-saving healthcare amidst miscarriages. Vestal Virgin Vengeance was filmed, edited and scored by multimedia artist Virginia L. Montgomery. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ★ Virginia L. Montgomery (Austin, Texas) is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin. VLM is known for her surreal, synthesia-esque artworks which unite elements from mysticism, science, and her own neurodivergent world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/cfd89280-07bd-48ab-b1db-f627c9b4be32/IMG_3350+%281%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out PLAY THING, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SARAH JOY BYINGTON ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Play Thing, a woman hires a specialist to uncover that the missing link in her and her partner's relationship is a toy. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ Sarah Joy Byington is an Austin-LOCAL, multi-hyphenate filmmaker that has been making waves in the local scene in recent years. Most notably, their political thriller Labor and Justice made its premiere at Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts in Los Angeles, and currently has two feature films that they have written/slated to direct in development. Eight months after filming Play Thing, the film's feline star, Cooper, passed, making the short film an unintentional but special memorial of his sweet spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/60085156-bf51-44f9-8f3c-6b47859aeac6/decades00088839.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out THE DECADES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ADAM MADGE, FEATURING MARLENE FELIZ NINA ABOUT THE FILM ★ In The Decades, Marley's quiet life is upended when an unexpected visitor from her ancestral past arrives, setting her on a journey of profound self-discovery. As she navigates unknown territories and confronts enigmatic forces, Marley must take a leap of faith and trust her own instincts to unravel the truth. ABOUT THE FEATURED LEAD ★ Marléne Feliz Nina is a Dominican-born, New York City-raised, Austin-based organizer and multidisciplinary creative. She made her lead acting debut in the short film The Decades, and is also a writer, poet, videographer/photographer, musician, and artist. Deeply involved in community work, she leads hikes and teaches self-defense classes with the Queer Black Women Alliance, performs poetry at open mic nights across the city, and trains, coaches, and competes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/69c73841-7608-4f62-bd09-623ccf1ab688/BTS+10.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out BEHIND THE STRINGS: AMPLIFYING BLACK FEMINISM IN GUITAR CULTURE, WRITTEN BY JESS GARLAND AND DIRECTED BY JUDAH AGBOHINKA ABOUT THE FILM ★ Despite being pioneers and influencers in genres that center guitar, Black women are often removed from the social narrative around guitarists and instrumentalists. To increase access and representation, Swan Strings founder Jess Garland partnered with Pegasus Media Project to produce Behind the Strings: Amplifying Black Feminism in Guitar Culture, an intimate behind-the-scenes short documentary that explores her work as an artist, musician, and cultural advocate. The film highlights the diversity and intersectionality of Black women, girls, and femmes based in Texas through exploring history and opportunities for musicians to be confident in their identity and musicianship. ABOUT THE WRITER ★ Jess Garland is a Dallas-based composer, performer, filmmaker, and founder of Swan Strings, a nonprofit that offers free music education, community concerts and sound therapy services grounded in racial and gender equity. Her work bridges experimental sound, community-based pedagogy and cultural activism, often centering the legacy of Black women in American music history. Garland’s multidisciplinary projects such as her laser harp performance titled Luminescence and the documentary Behind the Strings fuse musical innovation with healing, visibility and social transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/47505421-f380-4f2a-b75b-a9e6f1ec7380/VANITA_escaperealife-7.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out VANITA LEO, CONTEMPORARY CUMBIA POP ARTIST Coming from a rich lineage of Tejano heritage, Vanita Leo’s (@vanitaleomusic) appetite for ushering in a new wave of Chicano sound was inevitable. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas with a bloodline from Mazatlan, Sinaloa; the culture that Vanita was raised in was a melting pot of sounds. Initially using the guise of lush bedroom pop as an introspective outlet of self-discovery & passion, Leo now devotes her talents to exploring the modern intersection of Latino and American music. Her influences includes Sade, José José, Alicia Villarreal, Etta James, Pilar Montenegro, and of course la reina de la cumbia Selena Quintanilla. Her next single release will be “Solo Tú bb,” a cumbia with influences of sonidera, RNB and love. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/debc624f-ce81-49b1-90d3-5e3b08c8fdb6/Olivia%2BKomahcheet_Promo_OKC%2BBotanical%2BGardens%2B22.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out OLIVIA KOMAHCHEET, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND ARTIST AND COMPOSER Based in Austin, Olivia Komahcheet (@komahcheeto) is a music producer, live performer and Emmy nominated composer whose work spans within spaces of music, visual media and immersive art experiences. Collectively intertwining a multitude of soundscapes often integrating alternative/indie, experimental art pop and indie-tronica, Olivia has worked with top brands including Paramount Pictures, Apple +, PBS, Instagram, Ableton, Red Bull, Walrus Audio, Sundance, Square Register and Brooks Running with original music being heard on Netflix and Shudder TV platforms. Her original music has been married to films screened at National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian, TIFF Film Festival, SXSW and is a 3 year platinum Producer on Timbaland's global music industry platform "Beatclub.” ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/94ef55d7-fce9-4c76-b42f-1f90a1aa2bbf/download+%2815%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out BELEN ESCOBEDO, TEXAS CONJUNTO FIDDLE TRIO Before accordions became dominant in Conjunto music, the fiddle was the most common instrument in the genre. Belen Escobedo is one of the few living musicians who plays the rare and beautiful fiddle tunes in the South Texas Tejano (Texas-Mexican) tradition. Growing up on the South side of San Antonio and working as a professional fiddler since she was a teenager, Belen has preserved a unique style of fiddling that has all but disappeared from the Texas borderlands. Belen has a vast and unique repertoire, including tunes she learned from her grandfather's whistling. In 2017, Belen was awarded the Master Texas Fiddler Award at the Festival of Texas Fiddling in recognition of her significance as a one of the only people (and only woman) maintaining the rich traditions of Texas-Mexican fiddling. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2635ffec-5ef5-4bdf-9f76-569e8b0d8137/IMG_3345+-+Brittany+Greer.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out DJ HONEYPOCKET, MULTIGENRE DJ AND WELLNESS PRACTITIONER Brittany Greer (@honeypocketbeats), aka DJ HoneyPocket, has been into co-creation and passion fusion her whole life. As a multi-disciplinarian, she draws inspiration from the world around her and brings a blended mixture of skills and experience to the table, both figuratively and literally. Her musical tastes encompass this desire for blending and merging sounds together so you'll often hear a variety of genres, samples, reworks, and original tracks ranging from jazz, funk, hip hop, and latin roots to your newer sub-genres of house, future soul, and vapor twitch. She enjoys providing atmosphere in collaboration with what else is happening in a space—from cocktail lounge, to brunch, to members club meetups—she aims to enhance the vibe of what's already been curated. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/e58b4ec6-72f8-436a-8f3f-5ab8ed26bf85/DJ+Helios+Look+1-58.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out DJ HELIOS, CONTEMOPRARY LATIN DJ AND CURATOR From sound engineer turned DJ, Helios (@thedjhelios) has carved out a prominent presence in the music and entertainment industry for over a decade. Fusing beats from her Mexican roots with influences from hip hop, cumbia, reggaeton, house and funky edits, she creates an electric mix that celebrates the universality of music and exemplifies how people can celebrate community, cultura and life on the dance floor. With a versatile skill set, she’s captivated crowds of over 20,000 at Austin FC’s Q2 Stadium with Peligrosa, energized major corporate conferences in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and brought her sound to the iconic nightclubs of Mexico City. Helios has shared stages with legends like Billy Idol and Carin León, brought unforgettable energy to Latin festivals like Besame Mucho, and proudly represented as an official SXSW Artist in both 2024 and 2025. Driven by rhythm and rooted in culture, she’s relentless on the decks, fearless in her vision, and reshaping the DJ scene with every crowd she connects with. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2c65853e-1346-4648-af16-90593df94cad/image00361+-+Damino+%281%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out DAMINO, MULTIDISCIPLINARY VISUAL AND SOUND ARTIST Damino (@__damino) is an interdisciplinary artist based out of ATX. Their love of music, art and wellness informs the work they create. They are currently focusing on releasing their first official EP, but are known for performing energizing hybrid live DJ sets. They also run their company Day by Day Wellness and curate events with @enter.chakana, @babeatx & @artislandatx. They are passionate about uplifting marginalized voices in the entertainment industry. Since forming her project in 2021 just outside of Austin, Texas, her drive and passion to share the sounds of the world has allowed many doors to open as well as many beautiful connections to be made. She’s landed opportunities like performing at Deep Tropics Festival, Elements Music & Arts Festival, SXSW, and to be featured on the radio by Femme House on SiriusXM’s channel Diplo’s Revolution. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/9fbb19fe-1a86-4345-83cb-bca336eabf72/fandangueros.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out LOS FANDANGUEROS DE AUSTIN, SON JAROCHO COLLECTIVE ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7c8475e5-fb53-4a35-b1ce-3ebc330c57f4/IMG_0583%2B%281%29.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out IRIS KWON, VISUAL ARTIST AND PAINTER Iris Kwon (@child_appetite) works as an artist under the name Child Appetite because holding onto her childhood memories keeps her grounded through experiences of not fitting into any cultures. Over the past few years, she has studied and explored her memories, transforming rather dark moments into whimsical pieces using vibrant colors and humorous characterized animals. Her art is a continuous journey of turning personal history into visual narratives that invite viewers to rediscover the magic and resilience of childhood. She aims to evoke a sense of nostalgia and curiosity in strangers, believing that even though everyone’s experiences and memories are different, there is always an overlap. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2e39c22c-49d8-49a6-8652-e43cbb6702cd/Steph%2BGranillo%2B%E2%80%94%C2%A0Vendor.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out STEPH GRANILLO, QUILT ARTIST AND EDUCATOR Steph Granillo (@stephgrani) is an Austin-based quilt artist whose work celebrates the joy and beauty that can be found in unexpected places. Inspired by everyday moments and forgotten fabrics, she weaves color, texture, and pattern to honor the silent stories embedded into life and textiles. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/f0faf0aa-fed7-4118-b3c1-2b321ba0f50a/unnamed+-+2025-08-19T113124.404.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out XAVIER SCHIPANI, VISUAL ARTIST AND TRANS ACTIVIST Xavier Schipani explores themes of Queer Identity, the trans masculine body, sexuality, memory and language. His work is centered around questions that contemplate gender identity, proof of existence, the transformative power of representation, and the emotional resonance of his experience as a transman. Informed by what he calls his “Transcestors” or those who walked before him, he focuses his attention to that proof of existence. He is a collector of history and imagery, piecing together writing, film, music and art within his community. He uses the figure as an anchor to guide storytelling as a form of mapping. He is constantly in search of a world where his own body has a context by looking for historical representation of the trans masculine male. The visual result of his inspiration being large scale painting and mural work much like cave paintings and other tableaus which seek to communicate not only existence but importance. His figures emote a sense of longing, exploration and emotional curiosity that openly asks the viewer to be as vulnerable as he is. The connection between himself, his community and world surrounding it all, is a documentation of change and our ability to expand our collective view by truly offering space for all stories to be told. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ca3a5ce8-f0bb-47be-9c5f-0593b4e1a921/DSCF0045.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out SHANIA MONTUFAR, VISUAL ARTIST AND CURATOR Shania Montúfar is an Ecuadorian-Colombian visual artist, curator, and PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Trained in studio art, social theory, and data science, she approaches world-building as an artistic, academic, and political practice. Her personal work spans photography, fiber, and installation, while her curatorial work includes ECHOES ATX, her debut show funded by the City of Austin, which highlighted the past, present, and future of Black and Brown Austin. Her practice is inspired by feminist theory, visual sociology, and third world thought. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/9ed931f2-aecc-46a3-a810-2503fb6bd353/GRLJ+Headshot+1.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ LEMUS, POET, PHOTOGRAPHER AND SCHOLAR Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. (he/él) is a PhD Candidate in the Program in Higher Education Leadership & Policy at The University of Texas at Austin with a dual graduate portfolio in Women & Gender Studies with a specialization in LGBTQ+ Studies and Mexican American & Latinx/a/o Studies. He is a photographer and poet, and his research examines the experiences of queer and trans Latinx/o people living with disabilities in higher education utilizing art-based participatory methods to posit more liberatory futures. As a queer jotx Latinx person living with a (dis)ability, his work is deeply tied to his positionality. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/713093f0-b0c6-45d1-8c17-a6e502bf838e/HannahVarnell_Headshot.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out HANNAH VARNELL, FILMMAKER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR Hannah Varnell is a filmmaker and creative director based in Austin, Texas and available worldwide. She has collaborated with brands like HEB, Procter & Gamble, and Dell, bringing a distinct visual style while retaining a sense of authenticity. With roots in underground filmmaking, Hannah is committed to spotlighting creative voices. She sees film as a tool for social impact and focuses on building platforms where artists can connect and shape cultural dialogue. She is the founder of Bloodbath Studio, a fashion/media studio that advances inclusivity in film and fashion, curating immersive experiences for and by queer artists. Because of her passion for filmmaking as a medium for change, Hannah’s POV of gracefully finds expression across multiple genres—shaping concepts within film and performance art that feel both artful and current. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/dd32b195-fc7d-4ab3-b574-08a7ce899b7c/fullgallop-website-img-sarahrucker.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out SARAH RUCKER, TEXAS MUSIC ADVOCATE AND CULTURAL PRODUCER A lifelong arts lover and advocate with 20 years of experience in arts research and programming, Sarah Rucker founded Full Gallop in 2015. Full Gallop strives to bridge cultures and connect communities through creative collaborations and programs. She has a personal mission to help increase equity in the arts, especially in Austin, where she started the Inclusion Riders Initiative ATX in 2018. She was a founding board member of Austin Emerging Arts Leaders from 2012-2019. She holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Business Certificate from the University of Texas at Austin. Notable events she’s worked on include Neighbors in Need Hurricane Katrina Benefit at Frank Erwin Center, Barbara Lynn & Friends at Library of Congress and Kennedy Center, HAAM’s 10th Anniversary, City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division 30 Year Celebration, Opening Reception for Americans for the Arts Annual Convention, Barbara Lynn’s National Heritage Award Presentation, Cherrywood Art Fair, and DAWA’s 5th Anniversary at Long Center. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/6de053c9-1dc7-4e42-b7e9-9491f49a7757/Still+2025-05-31+230409_1.79.1+%281%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out TIGER, WRITTEN BY ABBEY WEBER AND DIRECTED BY KATIE MACK ABOUT THE FILM ★ After sharing a dreamy moment at dance class, Airen finds a keychain dropped by their dance partner and can't stop thinking about them. Will Airen see them again? In Tiger, love’s a beast, and this kitten’s in heat. ABOUT THE WRITER ★ Abbey Weber (they/them) is a queer, multidisciplinary, expressionist artist, writer, and filmmaker living in Austin, TX. Working with themes of love, obsession, heartbreak, and identity, Abbey believes that art making is a way of telling the truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/e7032fea-ab03-435a-8d32-b62f20685aa0/Sombras2.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out SOMBRAS, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SOFIA ALEJANDRA BARRIOS ABOUT THE FILM ★ Based on the director’s father, SOMBRAS is an homage to lineage and one man’s passion to become a mariachi singer. So many Latine immigrants sacrifice their desires for the prosperity of their family, and this film brings the sacrificed dreams of a parent to life. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ Sofia Alejandra Barrios is an incoming fourth-year Film and Latino Media Arts student at UT Austin. Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, she is driven by a desire to uplift and share Latine narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/787ff548-19ba-4960-9ab5-ff32c9f5334f/Neches_still3.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out NECHES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KATY MCCARTHY ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Neches, we join an older woman who experiences a quiet telepathy with the Neches River. The river offers us the woman’s memories, as she recalls being a young girl warmly introduced to the spirit of the place by her mother. As the film conflates time, we see a forest once lush now gone—can a landscape provide the resolution our guide craves about the past? ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ Katy McCarthy (she/her) is an artist, filmmaker and educator based in Austin, Texas. Her work has been screened and exhibited at the Dallas International Film Festival’s Short Film Fest, Cindependent Film Festival, The Every Woman Biennial Film Festival, Tiger Strike Asteroid Gallery Los Angeles, and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum among other venues. She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/867ac309-fc98-49e1-9a94-de77f7e11d7d/HH_PromoPhoto3+%281%29.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out OUR FIRST HAUNTED HOME, WRITTEN BY MASE KERWICK AND DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH MIMS ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Our First Haunted Home, a neurotic gay couple spiral out of control when their next door neighbor attempts to make a documentary about the sexually frustrated ghost haunting their home. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ★ Elizabeth Mims is an award-winning Austin filmmaker with 15+ years’ experience in the film industry spanning writing, directing, editing, and producing. She was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s Faces to Watch and nominated for a Spirit Award for her documentary Only the Young. She's currently the executive producer for the Emmy award-winning PBS television show On Story. ABOUT THE WRITER & PRODUCER ★ Mase Kerwick is a queer filmmaker, content producer, and comedian based in Austin, Texas. Since 2017, he has hosted the popular comedy show Queertowne, a two-time nominee for Best Podcast in The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin Readers Poll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/00fd1371-6f85-4965-9afa-bf3573bbd0b7/Princess+2.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out PRINCESS, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY BEVERLY “BEV” CHUKWU ABOUT THE FILM ★ PRINCESS is a psychological drama about a 33-year-old shut-in, who convinces herself to go to a community festival, where she’s forced to confront her assaulter and a chain of hallucinations related to her unprocessed trauma. As the eldest daughter in her Nigerian American family, Princess must reckon with the expectations placed on her to be sexually "pure" in a reality where she is not. A film for survivors, by survivors, PRINCESS uses surrealism and horror techniques to show the lengths we'll go to avoid telling the truth, especially when that truth is not deemed socially acceptable. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ✹ Beverly “Bev” Chukwu is a Nigerian American writer, director, producer and the co-founder of AyaGozie Productions, an art-making collective with a focus on culturally inclusive storytelling in the Texas area. Bev’s work rose to public attention in 2021, when her screenplay PRINCE OF LAVENDALE STREET won the international 2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and her projects have either screened or won awards at African Film Festival Atlanta, Women in Horror Film Festival, Cleveland Arthouse Film Awards, AGLIFF, Portland New Alternative voices, and more. Bev has earned fellowships from the Black List x WIF Lab; Google’s YouTube Originals Black Voices Program; and the James A. Michener Center for Writers, where she received her MFA in Screenwriting and Fiction and established herself as a queer writer, who tells genre-agnostic dramas about assimilation and the allure of groupthink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/d3438703-8fe7-4256-8324-630627a91507/PMH+photo5.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out PIZZA MY HEART, WRITTEN BY CHRISTINE HOANG AND DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH V. NEWMAN ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Pizza My Heart, a Pizza Telegram Singing Delivery Specialist (PTSD Specialist) delivers comfort food and a song to a heartbroken 12-year-old girl. Through musical dreamscapes, the characters experience connection and healing. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ✹ Writer, producer, and actor Christine Hoang and Director Elizabeth V. Newman have collaborated on several theatre productions that explore coming of age, self discovery, and the importance of kindness. Pizza My Heart is Christine and Elizabeth’s first film collaboration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/b5ea8d3c-86e5-4974-be5f-9875281b0c95/InTow_2_Credit_Zach_Morrison.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out IN TOW, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SHARON ARTEAGA ABOUT THE FILM ★ In IN TOW, a self-involved teen and her overworked single mom confront their differences as their mobile home is towed away ... with them inside of it! ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ SHARON ARTEAGA is a writer/director who convinced her mom to buy her a video camera instead of a Quinceañera. A first-generation Mexican-American, from Corpus Christi, Texas, Arteaga’s films playfully navigate generational, linguistic, and cultural differences between people. Arteaga's award-winning short films include the 2021 HBO LatinxShort Film Competition Winner, “When You Clean a Stranger’s Home,” now streaming on HBO Max. Passionate about empowering others to tell their own stories through film, Arteaga is a co-founder of the Tejanas in Film and is the Sr. Manager of Filmmaker Support at the Austin Film Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ce594c3f-873e-4f02-8394-6f919e355b86/vestalvirginvengeance.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out VESTAL VIRGIN VENGEANCE, DIRECTED BY VIRGINIA L. MONTGOMERY ABOUT THE FILM ★ Vestal Virgin Vengeance is a surreal, symbolic and sculptural art-film inspired by the feminist film-theory idea of "the gaze" and the contentious state of women's healthcare in Texas today. Via a surrealist lens, Vestal Virgin Vengeance channels the protective powers of The Vestal Virgins, an all-women pagan cult active in 2nd century Rome, who were renowned for their mysterious rites, supernatural abilities, and curious oaths to eternal virginity. Exploring themes of bodily autonomy, Vestal Virgin Vengeance was created in emotive response to the tragic 2024 deaths of Texas women Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain, who each died due Texas’s unjust abortion ban—a policy which prohibits Texas women from receiving life-saving healthcare amidst miscarriages. Vestal Virgin Vengeance was filmed, edited and scored by multimedia artist Virginia L. Montgomery. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR ★ Virginia L. Montgomery (Austin, Texas) is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin. VLM is known for her surreal, synthesia-esque artworks which unite elements from mysticism, science, and her own neurodivergent world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/cfd89280-07bd-48ab-b1db-f627c9b4be32/IMG_3350+%281%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out PLAY THING, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SARAH JOY BYINGTON ABOUT THE FILM ★ In Play Thing, a woman hires a specialist to uncover that the missing link in her and her partner's relationship is a toy. ABOUT THE WRITER & DIRECTOR ★ Sarah Joy Byington is an Austin-LOCAL, multi-hyphenate filmmaker that has been making waves in the local scene in recent years. Most notably, their political thriller Labor and Justice made its premiere at Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts in Los Angeles, and currently has two feature films that they have written/slated to direct in development. Eight months after filming Play Thing, the film's feline star, Cooper, passed, making the short film an unintentional but special memorial of his sweet spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/60085156-bf51-44f9-8f3c-6b47859aeac6/decades00088839.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out THE DECADES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ADAM MADGE, FEATURING MARLENE FELIZ NINA ABOUT THE FILM ★ In The Decades, Marley's quiet life is upended when an unexpected visitor from her ancestral past arrives, setting her on a journey of profound self-discovery. As she navigates unknown territories and confronts enigmatic forces, Marley must take a leap of faith and trust her own instincts to unravel the truth. ABOUT THE FEATURED LEAD ★ Marléne Feliz Nina is a Dominican-born, New York City-raised, Austin-based organizer and multidisciplinary creative. She made her lead acting debut in the short film The Decades, and is also a writer, poet, videographer/photographer, musician, and artist. Deeply involved in community work, she leads hikes and teaches self-defense classes with the Queer Black Women Alliance, performs poetry at open mic nights across the city, and trains, coaches, and competes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/69c73841-7608-4f62-bd09-623ccf1ab688/BTS+10.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out BEHIND THE STRINGS: AMPLIFYING BLACK FEMINISM IN GUITAR CULTURE, WRITTEN BY JESS GARLAND AND DIRECTED BY JUDAH AGBOHINKA ABOUT THE FILM ★ Despite being pioneers and influencers in genres that center guitar, Black women are often removed from the social narrative around guitarists and instrumentalists. To increase access and representation, Swan Strings founder Jess Garland partnered with Pegasus Media Project to produce Behind the Strings: Amplifying Black Feminism in Guitar Culture, an intimate behind-the-scenes short documentary that explores her work as an artist, musician, and cultural advocate. The film highlights the diversity and intersectionality of Black women, girls, and femmes based in Texas through exploring history and opportunities for musicians to be confident in their identity and musicianship. ABOUT THE WRITER ★ Jess Garland is a Dallas-based composer, performer, filmmaker, and founder of Swan Strings, a nonprofit that offers free music education, community concerts and sound therapy services grounded in racial and gender equity. Her work bridges experimental sound, community-based pedagogy and cultural activism, often centering the legacy of Black women in American music history. Garland’s multidisciplinary projects such as her laser harp performance titled Luminescence and the documentary Behind the Strings fuse musical innovation with healing, visibility and social transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/47505421-f380-4f2a-b75b-a9e6f1ec7380/VANITA_escaperealife-7.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out VANITA LEO, CONTEMPORARY CUMBIA POP ARTIST Coming from a rich lineage of Tejano heritage, Vanita Leo’s (@vanitaleomusic) appetite for ushering in a new wave of Chicano sound was inevitable. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas with a bloodline from Mazatlan, Sinaloa; the culture that Vanita was raised in was a melting pot of sounds. Initially using the guise of lush bedroom pop as an introspective outlet of self-discovery & passion, Leo now devotes her talents to exploring the modern intersection of Latino and American music. Her influences includes Sade, José José, Alicia Villarreal, Etta James, Pilar Montenegro, and of course la reina de la cumbia Selena Quintanilla. Her next single release will be “Solo Tú bb,” a cumbia with influences of sonidera, RNB and love. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/debc624f-ce81-49b1-90d3-5e3b08c8fdb6/Olivia%2BKomahcheet_Promo_OKC%2BBotanical%2BGardens%2B22.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out OLIVIA KOMAHCHEET, EXPERIMENTAL SOUND ARTIST AND COMPOSER Based in Austin, Olivia Komahcheet (@komahcheeto) is a music producer, live performer and Emmy nominated composer whose work spans within spaces of music, visual media and immersive art experiences. Collectively intertwining a multitude of soundscapes often integrating alternative/indie, experimental art pop and indie-tronica, Olivia has worked with top brands including Paramount Pictures, Apple +, PBS, Instagram, Ableton, Red Bull, Walrus Audio, Sundance, Square Register and Brooks Running with original music being heard on Netflix and Shudder TV platforms. Her original music has been married to films screened at National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian, TIFF Film Festival, SXSW and is a 3 year platinum Producer on Timbaland's global music industry platform "Beatclub.” ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/94ef55d7-fce9-4c76-b42f-1f90a1aa2bbf/download+%2815%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out BELEN ESCOBEDO, TEXAS CONJUNTO FIDDLE TRIO Before accordions became dominant in Conjunto music, the fiddle was the most common instrument in the genre. Belen Escobedo is one of the few living musicians who plays the rare and beautiful fiddle tunes in the South Texas Tejano (Texas-Mexican) tradition. Growing up on the South side of San Antonio and working as a professional fiddler since she was a teenager, Belen has preserved a unique style of fiddling that has all but disappeared from the Texas borderlands. Belen has a vast and unique repertoire, including tunes she learned from her grandfather's whistling. In 2017, Belen was awarded the Master Texas Fiddler Award at the Festival of Texas Fiddling in recognition of her significance as a one of the only people (and only woman) maintaining the rich traditions of Texas-Mexican fiddling. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2635ffec-5ef5-4bdf-9f76-569e8b0d8137/IMG_3345+-+Brittany+Greer.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out DJ HONEYPOCKET, MULTIGENRE DJ AND WELLNESS PRACTITIONER Brittany Greer (@honeypocketbeats), aka DJ HoneyPocket, has been into co-creation and passion fusion her whole life. As a multi-disciplinarian, she draws inspiration from the world around her and brings a blended mixture of skills and experience to the table, both figuratively and literally. Her musical tastes encompass this desire for blending and merging sounds together so you'll often hear a variety of genres, samples, reworks, and original tracks ranging from jazz, funk, hip hop, and latin roots to your newer sub-genres of house, future soul, and vapor twitch. She enjoys providing atmosphere in collaboration with what else is happening in a space—from cocktail lounge, to brunch, to members club meetups—she aims to enhance the vibe of what's already been curated. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/e58b4ec6-72f8-436a-8f3f-5ab8ed26bf85/DJ+Helios+Look+1-58.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out DJ HELIOS, CONTEMOPRARY LATIN DJ AND CURATOR From sound engineer turned DJ, Helios (@thedjhelios) has carved out a prominent presence in the music and entertainment industry for over a decade. Fusing beats from her Mexican roots with influences from hip hop, cumbia, reggaeton, house and funky edits, she creates an electric mix that celebrates the universality of music and exemplifies how people can celebrate community, cultura and life on the dance floor. With a versatile skill set, she’s captivated crowds of over 20,000 at Austin FC’s Q2 Stadium with Peligrosa, energized major corporate conferences in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and brought her sound to the iconic nightclubs of Mexico City. Helios has shared stages with legends like Billy Idol and Carin León, brought unforgettable energy to Latin festivals like Besame Mucho, and proudly represented as an official SXSW Artist in both 2024 and 2025. Driven by rhythm and rooted in culture, she’s relentless on the decks, fearless in her vision, and reshaping the DJ scene with every crowd she connects with. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2c65853e-1346-4648-af16-90593df94cad/image00361+-+Damino+%281%29.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out DAMINO, MULTIDISCIPLINARY VISUAL AND SOUND ARTIST Damino (@__damino) is an interdisciplinary artist based out of ATX. Their love of music, art and wellness informs the work they create. They are currently focusing on releasing their first official EP, but are known for performing energizing hybrid live DJ sets. They also run their company Day by Day Wellness and curate events with @enter.chakana, @babeatx & @artislandatx. They are passionate about uplifting marginalized voices in the entertainment industry. Since forming her project in 2021 just outside of Austin, Texas, her drive and passion to share the sounds of the world has allowed many doors to open as well as many beautiful connections to be made. She’s landed opportunities like performing at Deep Tropics Festival, Elements Music & Arts Festival, SXSW, and to be featured on the radio by Femme House on SiriusXM’s channel Diplo’s Revolution. ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/9fbb19fe-1a86-4345-83cb-bca336eabf72/fandangueros.png 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out LOS FANDANGUEROS DE AUSTIN, SON JAROCHO COLLECTIVE ★ listen now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/7c8475e5-fb53-4a35-b1ce-3ebc330c57f4/IMG_0583%2B%281%29.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out IRIS KWON, VISUAL ARTIST AND PAINTER Iris Kwon (@child_appetite) works as an artist under the name Child Appetite because holding onto her childhood memories keeps her grounded through experiences of not fitting into any cultures. Over the past few years, she has studied and explored her memories, transforming rather dark moments into whimsical pieces using vibrant colors and humorous characterized animals. Her art is a continuous journey of turning personal history into visual narratives that invite viewers to rediscover the magic and resilience of childhood. She aims to evoke a sense of nostalgia and curiosity in strangers, believing that even though everyone’s experiences and memories are different, there is always an overlap. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/2e39c22c-49d8-49a6-8652-e43cbb6702cd/Steph%2BGranillo%2B%E2%80%94%C2%A0Vendor.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out STEPH GRANILLO, QUILT ARTIST AND EDUCATOR Steph Granillo (@stephgrani) is an Austin-based quilt artist whose work celebrates the joy and beauty that can be found in unexpected places. Inspired by everyday moments and forgotten fabrics, she weaves color, texture, and pattern to honor the silent stories embedded into life and textiles. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/f0faf0aa-fed7-4118-b3c1-2b321ba0f50a/unnamed+-+2025-08-19T113124.404.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out XAVIER SCHIPANI, VISUAL ARTIST AND TRANS ACTIVIST Xavier Schipani explores themes of Queer Identity, the trans masculine body, sexuality, memory and language. His work is centered around questions that contemplate gender identity, proof of existence, the transformative power of representation, and the emotional resonance of his experience as a transman. Informed by what he calls his “Transcestors” or those who walked before him, he focuses his attention to that proof of existence. He is a collector of history and imagery, piecing together writing, film, music and art within his community. He uses the figure as an anchor to guide storytelling as a form of mapping. He is constantly in search of a world where his own body has a context by looking for historical representation of the trans masculine male. The visual result of his inspiration being large scale painting and mural work much like cave paintings and other tableaus which seek to communicate not only existence but importance. His figures emote a sense of longing, exploration and emotional curiosity that openly asks the viewer to be as vulnerable as he is. The connection between himself, his community and world surrounding it all, is a documentation of change and our ability to expand our collective view by truly offering space for all stories to be told. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/ca3a5ce8-f0bb-47be-9c5f-0593b4e1a921/DSCF0045.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out SHANIA MONTUFAR, VISUAL ARTIST AND CURATOR Shania Montúfar is an Ecuadorian-Colombian visual artist, curator, and PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Trained in studio art, social theory, and data science, she approaches world-building as an artistic, academic, and political practice. Her personal work spans photography, fiber, and installation, while her curatorial work includes ECHOES ATX, her debut show funded by the City of Austin, which highlighted the past, present, and future of Black and Brown Austin. Her practice is inspired by feminist theory, visual sociology, and third world thought. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/9ed931f2-aecc-46a3-a810-2503fb6bd353/GRLJ+Headshot+1.jpg 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ LEMUS, POET, PHOTOGRAPHER AND SCHOLAR Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. (he/él) is a PhD Candidate in the Program in Higher Education Leadership & Policy at The University of Texas at Austin with a dual graduate portfolio in Women & Gender Studies with a specialization in LGBTQ+ Studies and Mexican American & Latinx/a/o Studies. He is a photographer and poet, and his research examines the experiences of queer and trans Latinx/o people living with disabilities in higher education utilizing art-based participatory methods to posit more liberatory futures. As a queer jotx Latinx person living with a (dis)ability, his work is deeply tied to his positionality. ★ learn more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5688a8bdcbced60d3b3a50fd/713093f0-b0c6-45d1-8c17-a6e502bf838e/HannahVarnell_Headshot.webp 2025 Lineup - Make it stand out HANNAH VARNELL, FILMMAKER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR Hannah Varnell is a filmmaker and creative director based in Austin, Texas and available worldwide. She has collaborated with brands like HEB, Procter & Gamble, and Dell, bringing a distinct visual style while retaining a sense of authenticity. With roots in underground filmmaking, Hannah is committed to spotlighting creative voices. She sees film as a tool for social impact and focuses on building platforms where artists can connect and shape cultural dialogue. She is the founder of Bloodbath Studio, a fashion/media studio that advances inclusivity in film and fashion, curating immersive experiences for and by queer artists. 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