6th Annual SXSW Film Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day Film Festival & Screening

2011 Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day Film Festival
Saturday - Sunday
Location: TBA
Time: 10am-10am (24 hours)

2011 Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day Screening
March 2011
Location: TBA
Time: TBA

Every year, the Austin School of Film and SXSW Film, have a 24-hour film competition on the first weekend of SXSW Film. Filmmakers, ages 14-19, get into groups of four and have only 24 hours to script shoot, and edit a five-minute short according to set guidelines. Austin School of Film teachers and mentors, editing equipment, meals, and drinks will be provided. Each team must bring their own DV camera.  Event is FREE!

Sign up now for 2011! Only a limited number of students will be allowed, and it's on a first come first serve basis. All you have to do is send in your contact information (every student must send in their own information) to Monica at monica@austinfilmschool.org. Make sure you include your name, e-mail, and cell/home phone number(s). As the film festival approaches, you will receive further information about rules and recommended registration dates.


2010 SXSW Youth MAFIA Day
Sixty teens came together at Connally High School for the 2010 Youth Make a Film in a (M.A.F.I.A) Day Film Festival, which took place the weekend of March 13 - 14. Participants were organized into groups of 4 - 5 and had only 24 hours to conceive, shoot, and edit their films. All finished films were screened during SXSW Film at the Austin Convention Center/G-Tech on Wednesday, March 17th, as a part of 2010 SXSW Film.

BUY the 2010 Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day DVD for only $10, just come by the school to purchase the DVD.

Special thanks to our 2010 Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day Film Festival Sponsors:

 

ASoF greatly appreciates the generosity of the Austin Chronicle and S.X.S.W. Film for their continued support of the Annual ASoF/S.X.S.W. Film
Youth MAFIA Day events! 

This project is also funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.