Austin Arts Foundation

02/14/2026

02/09/2026

LOCAL VIDEO is here! 🎥🎞️🎨✨

Join us for an opening night that feels like wandering into a video store in the 90s and discovering your new favorite film by accident. LOCAL VIDEO is a celebration of homegrown filmmakers and visual artists, projected loud and proud, the way movies were meant to be seen: together!

Opening Night:
Saturday, February 14
Something Cool Studios
1717 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX

Gallery open 2–10 PM
Film screenings start at 7 PM and replay at the top of every hour

Free, all ages, and open to everyone! With some dope, fresh AF art from our recent poster workshop with of !

We’ll have a libation station benefiting Austin Arts Foundation, featuring drinks from our generous sponsors:

Goodnight Loving Vodka
Tequila 512
Bawi Sparkling Agua Fresca
Modelo Oro

Come hang, sip something cold, discover local films, and fall a little bit in love with Austin all over again.

Event link in bio.
Learn more at austinartsfoundation.org

This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

01/15/2026

Calling all artists! Join us for a community-art workshop where we’ll make posters and VHS covers celebrating all things film with Animation Director, Producer, and CEO of ! You’ll leave with some cool art to submit to our community art gallery and film experience, LOCAL VIDEO, opening .
All levels welcome!! So if you long for a Blockbuster night making art with your friends, please sign up and swing by Saturday 1/31from 1-4pm at Austin Public Library Pleasant Hill, 211 E William Cannon Dr.

The project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

01/01/2026

We are celebrating the new year AND all the dope@submissions we’ve already gotten for LOCAL VIDEO, a community gallery experience celebrating the golden era of cinema, when going to the movies was an event and Blockbuster nights ruled!!🍫🍿

Featuring short films and local art, this showcase brings together Austin’s filmmakers, artists, and movie lovers for a celebration of creativity and fun!

You can submit your short films (we are open to any style or genre!) and visual art celebrating film now at the link in our bio!

Want to make something fresh and have a blast with other fun film lovers? Don’t miss our film art poster workshop with Craig Staggs of Minnow Mountain on 1.31 at Austin Public Library Pleasant Hill! Sign up or submit your work now at austinartsfoundation.org🎬

Opening night is 2.14.26 and submissions close 2.6.26!
See you at the box office! 🎥

Poster art by

This project is supported in part by the Austin Economic Development Department.