Richard Linklater‘s community of cinephiles has come a long way.
Since first starting the Austin Film Society in 1985 as a means to get indie and foreign films booked in the Texas State Capital (which local cinemas then overlooked), the non-profit org has mushroomed to include a 700-acre production lot on the site of an old airport, which has fueled a bustling motion picture production economy here in Texas, the world’s eighth largest economy. Recently Texas upped its film incentives to $150M annually over the next ten years. All this while Linklater has cultivated a 5x Oscar nominated career as a filmmaker, his latest Blue Moon about Lorenz Hart set on the opening night of Oklahoma!, up for two Academy Awards Sunday including Best Actor for Ethan Hawke and Best Original Screenplay for Robert Kaplow.
We spoke with Linklater recently, not only about Austin Film Society, but his
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